Kolkata: Panihati, a Trinamool Congress stronghold for two decades, which will go to the polls on April 29, has emerged as a centre of contest after BJP decided to field the mother of the RG Kar victim as its candidate, bringing the fight to the PGT doctor’s neighbourhood, 16km from her campus.The constituency has remained…
Kolkata: The city could be voting under a cloud cover next Wednesday and the polling could be followed by a thunderstorm, the Met office said. After a week-long scorching spell during which the maximum temperature repeatedly crossed 36°C, Kolkata could finally be lashed by thunderstorms from Sunday. There could be successive nor’westers that could keep…
Kolkata: A fire broke out in the Sholo Bigha slum near Eastern Railway’s Santoshpur station on Saturday at 1.48 pm. Around 50-60 shanties near the railway station were gutted. No one was injured. Traffic came to a standstill on Budge Budge Road from around 2 pm as at least six to eight fire tenders pressed…
Kolkata: A fire broke out in the Sholo Bigha slum near Eastern Railway’s Santoshpur station on Saturday at 1.48 pm. Around 50-60 shanties near the railway station were gutted in the blaze. No one was injured. . Traffic came to a standstill on Budge Budge Road from around 2 pm as at least 6 to…
Kolkata: A fire broke out in the Sholo Bigha slum near Eastern Railway’s Santoshpur station on Saturday at 1.48 pm. Around 50-60 shanties near the railway station were gutted in the blaze. No one was injured. . Traffic came to a standstill on Budge Budge Road from around 2 pm as at least 6 to…
Kolkata: One person died and another sustained serious injuries after they were electrocuted at a residence on Bhukailash Road under Ekbalpur Police Station on Saturday morning.Police identified the deceased as Shibsharan Prasad Sau (51), while the injured, Debsharan Sau (45), is undergoing treatment at SSKM Hospital. The incident occurred around 7.05 am when Shibsharan came…
Kolkata: Thousands across Kolkata rushed to liquor shops on Saturday, forming long queues as they tried to buy alcohol before the 6 pm election shutdown.Anxiety and urgency marked the city’s liquor outlets as long queues formed outside off-shops, with buyers queueing up before the shops opened. Bars, too, stopped serving after a brief ‘window’ that…
Howrah: Before the second phase of voting, Sk Habib, a teacher and candidate from Humayun Kabir‘s ‘Aam Janata Unnayan Party’ in Uluberia South, joined the Trinamool Congress.Sheikh Habib said, “I joined Humayun’s party thinking he genuinely wanted to do something for Muslims. But you can’t understand everything from the outside. After becoming the candidate and…
Kolkata: In Tollygunge, the electoral battle this time is being fought as much across party lines as across a canal.The Tolly Nullah, cutting through the constituency, has emerged as a political metaphor, with opposition parties alleging that development under Trinamool Congress (TMC) heavyweight Aroop Biswas has remained confined to one side — particularly the Bijoygarh…
Kolkata: Identity politics is re-scripting the Vijay-versus-Vijay fight in Jorasanko this time, a coincidence that brings to mind the many roles played by Amitabh Bachchan in his movies in the 1970s and 1980s.But beyond the shared name, this is a contest shaped by local history, diversities, shifting loyalties, religion-based politics and everyday concerns in a…
