A notification was issued by Lok Bhavan over the weekend Kolkata: Lok Bhavan has invited students to participate in its first State-Level Essay Competition, which has two topics — Great Calcutta Killings of 1946 for students of classes 9-12 and Muslim League’s Direct Action Day for those in colleges and universities.A notification issued by Lok…
Kolkata: The proposed Kalyani airport cannot function alongside NSCBI Airport in Dum Dum, a veteran aviator said, pointing out that the alignment of the runways at the two airports, 35km apart, would lead to conflicts in aircraft movements and pose a threat to flight safety.Retired senior flight captain Sumanta Roy Chowdhury, who has flagged the…
Sudden and sharp showers have caught idol-makers in Kumartuli off guard on Sunday Kolkata: Sudden and sharp showers have caught idol-makers in Kumartuli off guard, forcing them to scramble to protect Durga idols at a time when work has entered its final and most crucial stage, with deliveries to puja committees just days away.Though the…
Waterlogged stretch along EM Bypass on Sunday Kolkata: Ahead of the Monday deadline, a senior KMC official on Saturday said about 85% of the repairs on the arterial roads across the city have been completed.Earlier, CM Suvendu Adhikari had said the roads would have to be repaired before Mahalaya. But KMC administrator and commissioner Smita…
Rain-soaked Kolkata on Sunday afternoon Kolkata: Some areas in the city received an intense spell of rain along with massive lightning strikes on Sunday despite the morning being sunny. According to the Met office, such sharp showers are a normal phenomenon during the retreat of the monsoon. Met officials have predicted that though the chances…
Kolkata: Nestled in north Kolkata, Tala Park and Paikpara have historically served as the ecological “lungs” of the region, distinguished by vast water bodies (jheels), open spaces, mature trees, and rich biodiversity.HistoryThe name Tala traces its origin to the numerous ponds, or ‘talao’, in the area. Tala was among 33 villages on the Calcutta side…
Kolkata: Bengal’s traditional art, indigenous performances and community participation became the medium for spreading the message of elephant conservation and human-elephant coexistence as the first three programmes of Wildlife Trust of India’s Gaj Utsav 2026 reached more than 426 people across Jhargram and Purulia.Organised in collaboration with Durgapur Wildlife Information and Nature Guide Society (WINGS),…
Suri: Police arrested former Mohammadbazar BLRO Sabyasachi Mandal in connection with alleged financial irregularities in Birbhum’s stone belt. Mandal, currently a collectorate and land acquisition officer in Jhargram, was arrested after questioning in Suri. A court remanded him in police custody for five days. Three govt employees have now been arrested for misappropriation of govt…
Jhargram: The body of Priti Dutta, 34, who drowned saving her seven-year-old son at Ghaghra Falls in Belpahari on Saturday, was retrieved from a mountain crevice after a day-long search operation on Sunday evening.Priti, a resident of Baruipur in South 24 Parganas, was swept away by strong currents after her son fell into the turbulent…
Kolkata: Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya has written to PM Narendra Modi to build a Paschimbanga Bhavan in Varanasi to strengthen the “spiritual ties of Bengal with the oldest living city in the world”. Varanasi is Modi’s Lok Sabha constituency.During his two-day visit to Varanasi, Bhattacharya on Sunday morning visited the century-old Kali temple in…
