Striped hyena in the industrial landscape of West Burdwan Striped hyena in industrial landscape of West Burdwan Kolkata: After elephant, tiger and wolf corridors, researchers have now unearthed two hyena movement corridors in south Bengal — one inter-state connecting the population of mining belt of West Burdwan to the larger source population of neighbouring Jharkhand…
Kolkata: A departmental probe has been launched into a Rs 1 crore canteen bill incurred by the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education during the last financial year. The expenditure coincided with the tenure of former council secretary Priyadarshini Mallick.Priyadarshini, daughter of former minister Jyotipriya Mallick, was removed from her post on May 15…
LS Speaker Om Birla addresses the second day of the orientation session for MLAs in the Bengal assembly on Saturday Kolkata: Newly elected MLAs must remember that they have been entrusted with a great responsibility, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Bengal governor RN Ravi said in the assembly on the second day of the…
Kharagpur: IIT Kharagpur will play a key role in the task force being set up by the state higher education department to implement the National Education Policy 2020, higher education minister Jagannath Chattopadhyay said at the institute’s 72nd convocation on Saturday. The event coincided with the institute’s platinum jubilee year.“A NEP implementation task force is…
Asit Biswas and Pramila Ray Biswas at CM Suvendu Adhikari’s ‘Janatar Darbar’ on Saturday Kolkata: Family members of Barun Biswas, the school teacher who was murdered in 2012 for raising his voice against rapes in Sutia, North 24 Parganas, met CM Suvendu Adhikari at his ‘Janatar Darbar’ on Saturday, seeking justice for the killing and…
Kolkata: The state govt has prepared a draft Global Capability Centre policy, backed by a Rs 5,000 crore investment promotion framework, to offer incentives and operational subsidies for technology, engineering and legal operations — Bengal’s first such dedicated policy for the sector.The state IT and electronics department plans to invite suggestions from industry bodies including…
Malda: Scientists at Raiganj University have discovered a new bacterial species and named it Micromonospora shyamaprasadii sp. nov. in honour of Syama Prasad Mookerjee on his 125th birth anniversary.The bacterium, isolated from the mulberry rhizosphere — the active soil zone around mulberry roots — has been officially registered with SeqCode, the global Code of Nomenclature…
Aam Janata Unnayan Party (AJUP) founder Humayun Kabir (File photo) Rejinagar: AJUP chairperson and Nowda MLA Humayun Kabir underwent four hours of questioning at Rejinagar police station on Saturday in connection with a suo motu case registered against him for an allegedly provocative speech at a rally in Kashipur on June 27.Kabir arrived at the…
Kolkata: The Ritabrata Banerjee-led faction of Trinamool Congress took over the Howrah zilla parishad on Saturday and promptly replaced pictures of ex-CM Mamata Banerjee with those of PM Narendra Modi and CM Suvendu Adhikari, rebel bloc neta Ritabrata Banerjee and chairperson of the faction Arup Roy.The take over was effected following a no-confidence motion in…
Rain in Kolkata. picture by Sukhomoy Sen Kolkata: Clouds generated by a low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal have started reaching the city, bringing passing monsoon showers. The Met office has predicted similar rain spells on Saturday, followed by heavier and more widespread rainfall on Sunday.“This low-pressure area is set to become more marked…
