Kolkata: Police arrested Bhowanipore strongman Rakesh Sahu alias Vicky, from Durgapur while he was allegedly trying to flee to Jharkhand. Cops said Vicky had been active in the Bhowanipore area for several years, and has been accused of forcibly taking over two rooms in a local’s house and demanding Rs 30 lakh when asked to…
Kolkata: “If the SIR tribunal goes on at the current pace, it will take 21 years for all appeals to be disposed of,” the Calcutta High Court said on Wednesday, also stressing that a passport cannot be issued without citizenship checks.Hearing an appeal by an SIR-deleted voter whose tatkal passport application is pending due to…
Kolkata: Ramakrishna Mission (Narendrapur) school authorities, including the Secretary Maharaj, were not present at a meeting between members of the Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya Praktani and recent passouts on Sunday, the secretary of the alumni association has said.The meeting was held to listen to the concerns and grievances of recent passouts that surfaced after a class-11…
PIL on Iskcon proposal for school midday meals Kolkata: Only an offer came, nothing further, the state govt told the Calcutta High Court in a PIL, challenging the proposal to entrust Iskcon with preparing and supplying cooked meals under PM-POSHAN to KMC schools.Though it called the PIL “premature”, the division bench of Acting Chief Justice…
Kolkata: A man, Subhas Das, murdered his wife, Geeta, by slitting her throat with a sharp weapon near Rathindra Cinema Hall in Sodepur on Wednesday morning. The accused then attempted suicide by stabbing himself in the abdomen and was admitted to a hospital in critical condition.The woman died on the spot. Police recovered the body…
Naxal movement to current times Kolkata: The recent history of encounter deaths in Bengal stretches back almost six decades but several factors have made these episodes stand out from each other across the different regimes that have governed Bengal since the 1960s. During the Naxal movement, encounters became a prominent fixture in Bengal with many…
Kolkata: A 61-year-old man, Judhajit Ghosh alias Yudhajit, has been arrested from Deshapriya Park on Tuesday evening for allegedly pretending to be an Enforcement Directorate official and trying to extort money from a former Kolkata Municipal Corporation councillor.The accused is from Kailash Ghosh Road in Haridevpur and was living at Regent Park Govt Colony. Police…
A still from ‘Ab Tak Chhappan’ that glorifiesextrajudicial murder as a heroic necessity but Diljit Doshanj’s ‘Satluj’and Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘The Lowland’ criticise such attempts Kolkata: The police “encounter” killing of a prime accused in the Baruipur rape-and-murder case has brought the reality of extrajudicial justice to the fore, reigniting a discourse of Bengal for long…
Kolkata: With football fever soaring in the city, several schools are embracing their students’ sporting spirit by making adjustments to their academic schedules.South Point School issued a notice to parents and students of classes 6-12 announcing the postponement of periodic assessment I, pre-midterm tests and unit test I, which were scheduled for July 20 and…
Kolkata: Police on Tuesday gunned down one of the four accused in the Baruipur rape-murder case after he allegedly snatched one of their guns and fired at them. Prabash Mondal was shot at 12.45am, about 30 metres from the scene of the grisly crime in the Suryapur neighbourhood of Baruipur, when he was taken there…
