Kolkata: Durga Puja theme artistes have decided to make a ‘no objection certificate’ mandatory for organisers from next year in an effort to curb the widespread practice of partial or withheld payments. The NOC will be issued by an artist only after a puja committee clears all dues. Artistes taking up work for a pandal…
Kolkata: Cops from the Jorasanko Police Station have launched a crackdown on a local gang, operating an illegal hub inside an under-construction, abandoned portion of the College Street Market or Barnaparichay.The action follows a formal complaint by the KMC on rising lawlessness and threats issued to civic officials on the premises. The civic body also…
Kalyani: TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar arrives in Kalyani to attend West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari’s administrative meeting involving Nadia, Hooghly and North 24 Parganas districts on Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (Photo: IANS) Kolkata: Responding to Trinamool Krishnanagar MP Mahua Moitra’s repeated barbs, rebel MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar on Wednesday said that calling the…
Following a fatal warehouse collapse, West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has halted all under-construction commercial projects approved by the previous government until July 31 KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday suspended work on all under-construction commercial projects approved by the previous TMC government till July 31.The CM ordered a comprehensive audit…
Under-construction godown shed collapsed Tuesday afternoon, claiming at least five lives and injuring 20 KOLKATA: At least five workers died after an under-construction godown shed collapsed in Kolkata’s Taratala area on Tuesday afternoon.The incident left 20 others injured, two of whom were undergoing treatment in the ICU.Following the collapse, a massive search and rescue operation…
Kolkata: Jadavpur University’s anti-ragging committee has imposed varying punishments on 8 students accused of threatening and harassing a third-year engineering student after details of his RTI seeking placement-related data were leaked from the placement officer’s office. VC Chiranjib Bhattacharjee said, “The anti-ragging committee has submitted the report and the punishments have been communicated to the…
‘The scheme aims to bring first-time entrants into the organised workforce, offering eligible employees incentives of up to Rs 15,000,’ EPFO officials said Kolkata: EPFO Kolkata highlighted the Centre’s push to link job creation with social security under the Pradhan Mantri Viksit Bharat Rojgar Yojana (PM-VBRY). At a Delhi programme last week, Prime Minister Narendra…
File photo of KMC workers and Kolkata Police trying to clear the road at Bidhan Market on Tuesday Kolkata: The city remained cloudy and received occasional drizzles on Wednesday (June 24) even as the maximum temperature clocked 30.8°C.Several areas across south Bengal continued to be lashed by severe thunderstorms.A seasonal trough and cyclonic circulations over…
Howrah: The charred body of 28-year-old Anamika Samanta, a resident of Jagatballavpur in Howrah who worked as a multimedia instructor at a computer education centre in the ill-fated Lucknow coaching centre building, was identified and brought to her ancestral home in Garh Balia on Wednesday after a post-mortem examination. Her last rites were performed the…
Bengal finance minister Swapan Dasgupta Kolkata: Bengal govt is framing rules to roll out incentives aimed at attracting industrial investment, finance minister Swapan Dasgupta said at an Assocham family business conclave in the city on Wednesday. He said the incentive structure must be comparable to those in neighbouring Assam and Odisha to ensure fair competition…
