KOLKATA: Travellers struggling to secure train reservations or looking for an alternative to expensive airfares can now opt for luxury buses from Kolkata to destinations as far as Delhi, Bengaluru and Chennai.Bengal transport minister Arjun Singh on Wednesday flagged off a new fleet of long-distance super-luxury interstate buses from the Karunamoyee Bus Terminus, launching services…
Barnaparichay Market on College Street Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) commissioner, Smita Pandey, and Jorasanko MLA Vijay Ojha, accompanied by officials from the civic body’s market department, visited the College Street market on Wednesday to inspect its condition and review pending civic issues affecting traders. The team assessed the state of the infrastructure, encroachments…
KOLKATA: The Rs 2 crore heist at Pratapaditya Road earlier thais month was not a one-off case of fake cops carrying out a fake raid at a south Kolkata firm and robbing them of crores. A similar incident was reported from Lake Avenue on June 10, where a forex company was raided by 11 fake…
Kolkata: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Detective Department, assisted by the anti-bank fraud section, arrested three directors of a private firm on Tuesday night for orchestrating a Rs 3.9 crore loan scam.During the raid at one of the accused’s residences on Nanda Lal Chatterjee Lane in Howrah, cops seized more than Rs 1.5…
Kolkata: A Beniapukur family was cheated of more than Rs 71.5 lakh in an online investment scam. The victim was contacted on WhatsApp on April 15 by people claiming to work for a UK-based firm called ‘Social Venture Capitalist’. They promised high profits through online trading.The man initially invested $200 through UPI and the fake…
Mamata Banerjee (File Photo) KOLKATA: Had she gone for some “setting”, neither she nor her party would have been forced “to face torment”, Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday. In a Facebook Live session, the former CM said she had never compromised on her principles and will never do so. Banerjee said she would…
Kolkata: In an unique case of digitally organized trafficking, four girls from Kolkata and two from Malda were found using a mobile application to learn Korean for the past 10 months, under a trainer based in Kolkata, with the plea that they would travel to South Korea to meet the BTS band and other K-pop…
Flower-seller Bela Behera from Orissa Ganjam is set to return home after a decade after HAM Radio enthusiasts traced her family Kolkata: A 60-year-old flower seller from Odisha, Bela Behera, is set to reunite with her family nearly 10 years after she went missing while travelling to Kolkata to buy flowers before Rath Yatra.After she…
Kolkata: Kolkata Metropolitan Area recorded a moderation in home registration activity in June 2026 and across the first half of the year, with real estate consultancy firm Knight Frank India attributing the slowdown partly to cautious market behaviour during the West Bengal Assembly election period and the high base of last year.According to Knight Frank…
Cloud cover over Dharmatala on Wednesday Kolkata: A low pressure area has formed over the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday morning, as predicted by the Met office. This system is likely to become well marked and move north-westwards across north Odisha and adjoining Gangetic West Bengal.Met officials in Bengal said the system will impact south…
