Kolkata: Baranagar BJP MLA Sajal Ghosh has indicated that sections on the Singur and Nandigram movements led by Mamata Banerjee may soon be removed from the state board’s Class 8 syllabus — one of the first signals of curriculum changes under the new BJP govt.Speaking to reporters at the ‘Education Interface’ event at Netaji Indoor…
Falta: With the political scales flipping in Bengal and chief minister Suvendu Adhikari targeting him in his own lair, Trinamool Congress‘s Falta candidate Jahangir Khan faces an uphill task ahead of the May 21 repolls. Khan, who had stepped out of the public glare after the May 4 results, returned to his ransacked Srirampore party…
Kolkata: A cyber crime case has been registered against an unidentified person for allegedly posting objectionable and communally sensitive content on Facebook, including a post targeting chief minister Suvendu Adhikari and another related to the arrangement of Qurbani cattle for Bangladeshi individuals, police said.The case was registered at Bidhannagar Cyber Crime police station on May…
Kolkata: The urban development and municipal affairs dept has asked the KMC, all municipal corporations and municipalities to strictly follow legal provisions on unauthorised construction after the Tiljala factory fire incident, which claimed two lives last week.Municipal affairs minister Agnimitra Paul said, “I have asked my dept to send letters to all municipal body areas…
Kolkata: After a 15-month wait, RVNL has managed to complete launching of the entire 28m concrete deck between piers 317 and 318 of the Orange Line. Thus, a major part of the first phase of lifting concrete segments to cover the viaduct gap atop Chingrighata is now done.Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd (RVNL), implementing the 32km…
Kolkata: The state govt is soon launching a dedicated 24-hour helpline number for women – 181 – which will be geo-tagged with the help desk at the nearest police station as the police will immediately get alert on exactly from where a woman is calling for help so that officers could rush to the spot…
Kolkata: Calcutta High Court has assigned the R G Kar rape-murder case to a special bench of Justice Shampa Sarkar and Justice Tirthankar Ghosh, making it the fourth bench to be assigned to hear the case.Earlier this week, on Tuesday, the division bench of justices Rajasekhar Mantha and Rai Chattopadhyay recused from the case, citing…
KOLKATA: A man was arrested from Kolkata’s Garden Reach area for allegedly sending an email to police threatening a suicide bomb attack on West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari “with the help of terror outfit Al Qaeda,” a senior officer said on Saturday.The accused, identified as 27-year-old Hasnain Iqbal, was arrested following a joint operation…
KOLKATA: The CBI conducted searches at multiple locations on Saturday in connection with the murder of Chandrakant Rath, an aide to West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari, officials said.The searches began late Friday night and continued into the early hours of Saturday, they added.The agency recently took over the investigation into Rath’s murder from the…
Kolkata: Traffic cops have put in place an elaborate traffic management plan to prevent major congestion during the RVNL work to bridge a 366-metre gap at Chingrighata Crossing. The work will be carried out in two phases — from 8 pm on May 15 to 8 am on May 18, and again from 8 pm…
