File picture of an waterlogged Kolkata street Kolkata: Even as India grapples with an unpredictable monsoon, Bengal has emerged as an anomaly, recording near-normal rainfall despite a 30% deficit across eastern and northeastern India, a Climate Trends briefing has found.Monsoon 2026 began under the threat of a developing Super El Niño, prompting the India Meteorological…
Kolkata: Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has missed the second deadline — July 31 — to submit a draft report on the delimitation survey. On Friday, KMC commissioner and administrator Smita Pandey stated that the deadline would be further extended.Previously, the draft report was supposed to be submitted by July 27, following which the final report…
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Kolkata: Bengal BJP has already started preparing for the Nandigram and Rejinagar assembly bypolls — still more than two months away. Party general secretary Jyotirmay Singh Mahato has been assigned charge of Nandigram. BJP vice president Prabal Raha will oversee the party campaign in Rejinagar.The Nandigram assembly seat was vacated after CM Suvendu Adhikari resigned…
Kolkata: Police, bank officials and the I-T department have launched a probe after an unexplained Rs 47 crore was credited to the bank account of a cloud kitchen owner in Beleghata.The account holder, Nupur Gupta, who runs a home-delivery food business, approached Beleghata police on Thursday after discovering the deposit. She told police she had…
Kolkata: The state govt will introduce a “one-side parking” system across Kolkata and bring the city’s parking network under a unified digital platform, urban development and municipal affairs minister Agnimitra Paul said on Friday.A dedicated app will provide real-time information on available spaces, allow users to reserve slots and make digital payments. “We are trying…
Peerless Group’s revenue reached Rs 1,013 crore in FY 2026 Kolkata: Peerless Group is hoping that its hospital subsidiary will alone cross the Rs 500-crore mark by the end of this fiscal. The group as a whole had a revenue of Rs 500 crore four years back, and it has crossed Rs 1,000 crore.The group’s…
Calcutta High Court (file picture) Kolkata: The National Testing Agency told the Calcutta High Court on Friday that it will debar a NEET UG candidate from taking the exam for three years under the Public Examination (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024, after Justice Amrita Sinha prima facie found that the OMR sheets submitted by…
Howrah: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari addresses a press conference at Nabanna in Howrah on Friday, July 31, 2026. (Photo: IANS) Kolkata: Rs 150 crore in cash, gold and assets including 242 vehicles, two petrol pumps, seven houses, a farmhouse, and counting. The list constitutes only a part of Birbhum stone mining baron Tulu…
Kolkata: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) opened its first centre of excellence in AI in eastern India at Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata (HITK) on Friday. Talks are on for two such centres at IIEST and Jadavpur University.The centre, built in collaboration between industry and academia, will train students in developing AI-based solutions.KM Suceendran, head of…
