KOLKATA: Heavy rain lashed parts of West Bengal on Friday as IMD has forecast more showers across the state over the next few days.Cooch Behar recorded the state’s highest rainfall at 143 mm in the 24 hours ending Friday morning.Commuters in Kolkata, including schoolchildren and office-goers, struggled to navigate rain-soaked roads as showers continued through…
Kolkata: More than 36,000 students registered for the first round of counselling for engineering, technology and architecture courses (except pharmacy) being conducted by the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board (WBJEEB) this year, marking a 34.3% rise from last year’s 27,135 registrations, shared chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on X.One of the primary reasons for the…
Baruipur: The number of people picked up for arson, vandalism and violence reached 32 on Thursday. About 12 were detained between Wednesday night and Thursday while 20 others had been picked up by the police earlier.The detainees are mostly from Surjapur Haat, a residential area off Kulpi Road, as well as Surjapur and Alipore villages…
Kolkata: Bengal’s Panchayat minister Dilip Ghosh, who had earlier said “absconding panchayat members” will be treated with “stone therapy”, said on Thursday that people would now treat intellectuals and “communists” with “egg therapy”. Ghosh labelled the intellectuals protesting against the encounter of Prabash Mondal “anti-socials”.On Thursday, Ghosh defended the police encounter of Mondal, and criticized…
Baruipur: Security deployment has been raised near the house of the Baruipur rape-murder victim in Surjapur Haat area from Wednesday night. On Thursday, a contingent of around 40 central force personnel was deployed on Kulpi Road as well as in the surrounding areas of the house where the girl’s father is staying alone. His wife…
The syndicate allegedly set up drug dens along railway tracks in Surjapur Baruipur: The shockwaves from the gang-rape and murder of an 12-year-old girl in Baruipur have exposed a deep-rooted criminal network that has allegedly terrorised parts of South 24 Parganas for more than a decade.Investigations into the prime accused have uncovered the dark underbelly…
Kolkata: In a late-evening order on Thursday, at least 33 inspectors — most of them OCs — were transferred. Incidentally, five female officers were deputed to lead some of the most populous police stations, including Chetla, Sinthee and Sarsuna.Included among them is Chameli Mukherjee who was earlier posted as Kalighat OC for 24 hours before…
Kolkata: Concerned over the impact of rampant digital usage among children, including infants, the Union health ministry has decided to deploy ASHA workers to assess the extent of the problem and sensitise parents on digital devices.A similar initiative is also being incorporated into the school health and wellness programme, health ministry officials said in Kolkata…
Kolkata: The probe into dismissed BDO Prashanta Barman’s alleged role in jeweller Swapan Kumilya’s murder intensified after the SIT and a team of cops searched Barman’s New Town flat on Wednesday night and a forensic team collected samples from the apartment. The team collected several documents from the house for examination.Last Oct, 48-year-old gold trader…
Kolkata: Health minister Sharadwat Mukherjee said demoting Riyal Das, daughter of orthopaedic surgeon S P Das, from an assistant professor’s post to a medical officer and shifting her from the special medical education department to general health services were the right decisions as she did not possess the qualifications.Riyal had been an assistant professor at…
