Lindsay Street carriageway clear of hawkers Kolkata: The New Market cops carried out its first set of hawker arrests from the Betram Street-Lindsay Street crossing on Friday, barely hours after chief minister Suvendu Adhikari made it clear that “nobody has the right to encroach upon pavements and roads”. Cops warned of similar arrests if future…
Sajal Ghosh, Tapas Roy at a blood donation camp organised by Forum for Durgotsab Kolkata: Ministers and MLAs who attended a marquee blood donation event organized by the Forum for Durgotsab, an umbrella body representing more than 500 Durga Pujas in Kolkata and elsewhere, sought to allay concerns over how the festival would be held…
Garbage cleaning work in Saltlake Kolkata: A week after the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) board of councillors was dissolved and an administrator took charge of the civic body, streets across Salt Lake have started to look cleaner. The civic authorities have been regularly collecting and disposing of the daily generated waste and cleaning the road…
Kolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari is scheduled to visit the KMC headquarters on Monday, when the civic body will begin a five-day cleanliness drive. The drive is being undertaken ahead of PM Narendra Modi’s arrival on June 20, the eve of World Yoga Day. According to a KMC source, senior officials of several civic departments…
Kolkata: Another case of digital arrest scam – worth more than Rs 7 lakh – has been reported from Phoolbagan area in eastern suburban Kolkata. The victim is a senior resident residing at Raipur in Chhattisgarh and had come to Kolkata to visit relatives, said cops.The elderly academic, who arrived in the city in early…
Kolkata: A clash over alleged “negative feedback” given to potential clients about gym facilities escalated into violence in Behala Parnasree, leading to a case and a counter-case being registered by the police.The incident, which took place on the evening of June 12, left multiple people injured and resulted in allegations of wrongful restraint, assault, and…
Kolkata: Even as the city continues to be singed by a lethal combination of humidity and heat, a viral fever outbreak has laid hundreds low over the last one week. While the symptoms are common — high fever, chest congestion, cough and muscle pain, the infection has been leading to acute weakness, which is delaying…
Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday announced an infrastructure and security overhaul and upgrade blueprint for the coastal areas of Digha, Mandarmani, Tajpur, Shankarpur and Udaypur.Adhikari said that the existing Rs 10 tourist subscription fee will be withdrawn from July 1. “I feel that taking Rs 10 from those who are paying income-tax and GST…
Kolkata: With Trinamool’s rebel MPs announcing that their bloc would merge with the Tripura-based Nationalist Citizens’ Party of India (NCPI), BJP on Sunday said the decision would put all speculation to rest.While unease was brewing in BJP over the fate of the rebels, Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya and Union minister and Bongaon MP Shantanu…
New Delhi/Kolkata: Twenty rebel Trinamool MPs informed Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Sunday that they will merge with a relatively unknown party from Tripura— Nationalist Citizens’ Party of India (NCPI) — and urged him to allot them a separate sitting block in Lok Sabha along with the NDA parties.The merger will make NCPI, whose…
