Idol-makers have 141 days to finish their work Kolkata: Ever since the ban on digging soil from riverbanks came into effect, sticky clay from the Hooghly has become scarce. As a result, the making of Durga idols has taken a hit. Artisans are concerned over how to complete the idols, as they have only 141…
Debashis Konar & Kaushik PradhanKolkata: The state govt on Wednesday released the 11-page application form (12 pages in Bengali) for the newly launched Annapurna Yojana, a direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme under which eligible women will receive monthly financial assistance of Rs 3,000.Unlike the Lakshmir Bhandar form, which was a simple two-page document requiring minimal…
KOLKATA: Despite RG Kar outrage and citywide protests, Kolkata has once again emerged as India’s safest metro city, recording the lowest rate of cognisable offences per lakh population among 19 Indian cities with populations exceeding 20 lakh, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) 2024 report.The latest figures reaffirm Kolkata’s position at the…
KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress MP Sougata Roy on Thursday faced protests outside a police station in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, with demonstrators shouting “thief” at him and hurling eggs at his vehicle.The 78-year-old parliamentarian had gone to the Nimta police station to submit a deputation alleging attacks on TMC councillors in several parts of…
Former Rajya Sabha MP Shantanu Sen (File Photo) KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and former Rajya Sabha MP Dr Santanu Sen has resigned from his post as the party’s national spokesperson on Thursday, according to news agency ANI.In his resignation letter addressed to party chief Mamata Banerjee, Sen said he could no longer continue defending…
Bengali filmmaker Anik Dutta KOLKATA: Award-winning director Anik Dutta, 66, the man behind a new genre of political satire in Bengali cinema, died after falling from the roof of a six-storey residential building at Hindustan Park near Gariahat on Wednesday. He was taken to anearby private hospital around 1.15pm but declared dead on arrival.Police said…
Facing internal dissent after a poll setback, Mamata Banerjee penned a poem, ‘Girgiti (Chameleon),’ targeting rebel leaders. KOLKATA: As TMC grapples with a deepening internal crisis following the party’s crushing poll setback, former chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday appeared to hit back at dissenters within the organisation through a sharply worded poem titled “Girgiti…
West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari KOLKATA: Nearly 30 lakh beneficiaries of the previous government’s flagship Lakshmir Bhandar scheme will be ineligible for the new government’s Annapurna Yojana, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari said on Wednesday while launching the application form for the new direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme that will provide financial assistance of Rs 3,000…
Dwaipayan.GhoshKOLKATA: Four people , including a four-year-old child, were injured as a clash broke out over illegal parking outside a barber shop on Bijoy Bose Road in Kalighat on Monday night. Police said the altercation started around 9.45 pm, when a group of residents protested against the barber shop owner and his family for allowing…
Kolkata: Residents of Beleghata and Tiljala, who have received civic demolition notices for their homes of a decade, on Wednesday queued up at the KMC for a hearing before the special hearing officer. The Beleghata properties were promoted or owned by local strongman Raju Naskar.The notice directed Beleghata locals to meet KMC officials with their…
