Kolkata: Kolkata Police will set up a Divisional Crime Record Bureau, or DCRB, in every police division of the city to improve digital crime record management and coordination.The move follows guidance from the Union home ministry under the Interoperable Criminal Justice System. The DCRB has been modelled on the National Crime Records Bureau and the…
Kolkata: Twenty-six students of Park Institution were discharged from RG Kar medical college on Wednesday. Sources said that the rest of the seven are fine. They will also be sent home in a day or two. The students from the school had fallen ill, leading to their hospitalisation. While influenza A infection has been found…
Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari Kolkata: Bengal govt on Wednesday widened the Annapurna Yojana net to include more beneficiaries and eased some of the scheme’s eligibility criteria but warned there will be stricter verification to ensure the cash dole reaches only genuine applicants. Women beneficiaries are eligible for a direct bank transfer of Rs 3,000…
Rouf Khalid at Barasat court Kolkata: Barely 72 hours before Independence Day, the state’s Special Task Force (STF) on Wednesday arrested a 36-year-old suspected Pakistani national with links to the country’s military and spy agency ISI from near the Bangladesh border in North 24 Parganas. He was allegedly spying on India’s military and railway assets.Rana…
The first saffron coat on July 12 Kolkata: The ticket counter of Academy of Fine Arts got a fresh coat of saffron on Wednesday — its third colour change in a span of 31 days — encapsulating in around 200 square feet of space what colour revolutionaries on both sides called “the fight over Bengal’s…
The car which plunged into a pond in Kestopur on Wednesday.. photo Mayukh Sengupta Kolkata: A 42-year-old corporate executive, who was learning to drive a newly purchased car, died after the vehicle plunged into a pond in Kestopur on Wednesday morning. Cops suspect that she had possibly pressed the accelerator instead of the car brake…
Kolkata: The candidates, empanelled after clearing the second State Level Selection Test (SLST) for the recruitment to assistant teachers’ posts for classes 11 and 12 at state schools, will now have to wait for an indefinite period as the West Bengal Central School Service Commission (WBSSC) issued a notice to halt the counseling process, which…
A still from a video footage showing irked flyers Kolkata: Passengers of an Air India Express flight headed to Chennai staged a protest at Kolkata airport on Wednesday after the flight was delayed by nearly six hours due to a technical fault. The flight was scheduled to depart at 6.30 am with about 170 passengers….
Fish being served at Maa Ahar near Bangur Avenue Kolkata: About three months after chief minister Suvendu Adhikari’s announcement, the new fish and rice menu made its debut at some Maa Ahaar canteens in the city. It was a pleasant surprise on Wednesday for the citizens queuing up in front of a Maa Ahaar canteen…
Sekabul Sheikh, a resident of Sridharpur in Murshidabad diagnosed with memory loss two years ago, went missing after travelling to Chennai on leave from his Delhi job Kolkata: A 30-year-old man from Murshidabad, missing in Chennai for 18 months, has been traced with help from a former senior BSNL official and Ham Radio enthusiasts.Sekabul Sheikh,…
