Kolkata: State cabinet minister Swapan Dasgupta said on Sunday that mafia control of the Kalighat temple complex will be a thing of the past. “There is a law-and-order issue here, and a great amount of ‘tola-baji’ (extortion). It is very unfortunate, I have to say, that there is a sense of mafia control in the…
Kolkata: Stronger enforcement measures are needed to stop manufacture, distribution and sale of illicit liquor, said the Society for the Welfare of West Bengal Foreign Liquor Licenses. At an event on Sunday, the society called upon the state govt to consider reforms in the liquor trade. It has also called for the rationalisation of trade…
Kolkata: A 65-year-old resident of Regent Park was allegedly swindled out of nearly Rs 4.4 crore in a digital arrest scam. Police have been able to recover Rs 1.5 crore in connection with this fraud. The victim, a retired bank employee, received a phone call on April 1 from individuals posing as TRAI officials, claiming…
Kolkata: An on-duty traffic sergeant, Animesh Biswas, attached to the East Traffic Guard was allegedly wrongfully restrained, verbally abused, and physically assaulted by a two-wheeler rider during a joint naka checking session on Friday. The incident took place at the intersection of Jhowtala Road and Nasiruddin Road near Beckbagan and led to the immediate arrest…
Kolkata: The city was lashed by a squall with a wind speed of 60 km/hour, gusting up to 64 km/hour on Sunday evening, that resulted in a sharp temperature drop. It was preceded by a period of total darkness, with a thick cloud cover hanging low over Kolkata from around 3 pm. Kolkata recorded a…
Darjeeling: Across Bengal, state minister Agnimitra Paul said strict restrictions on littering and the use of plastic in public places would come into force from Sept 1. On Sunday she announced a major cleanliness and waste-management drive across the Darjeeling hills, including a minimum Rs 100 fine for littering from July 1.“Violators will face heavy…
Burdwan: For residents of Badamtola in Burdwan, Ramprasad Das and his wife Banashree Das were known less for their presence in the neighbourhood and more for the stream of creditors who regularly turned up at their rented home demanding money.The couple, who had been living with their minor son in a sprawling mansion at 61…
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress chief and former Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee travelled to Delhi on Sunday, a day before the INDIA bloc meeting, as the party scrambled to prevent the rebellion that shattered its legislature wing in the Bengal assembly from spreading to Parliament. Party national general secretary and its Lok Sabha leader Abhishek Banerjee had…
Siliguri: Veteran Left neta Ashok Bhattacharya, in hospital after he suffered a head injury in a fall at his home, was met by minister Shankar Ghosh on Sunday. Ghosh, directed by CM Suvendu Adhikari to meet Bhattacharya, inquired about the former minister’s treatment at the Matigara facility. CM Adhikari spoke to Bhattacharya over the phone….
Darjeeling: The bodies of four residents of Lingdok in East Sikkim, who had been missing since Friday, were recovered from an SUV pulled out of the Teesta River near Coronation Bridge at Sevoke on Sunday morning, reports Roshan Gupta.The deceased were identified as Smarika Neupaney, a nursing lecturer at Sochyagang Nursing College; Sabiya Neupaney, a…
