Ninety-one Bangladeshi fishermen were repatriated on Saturday along with four fishing trawlers that had been detained for allegedly crossing into Indian territorial waters in the Bay of Bengal, reports Monotosh Chakraborty. The fishermen were apprehended between Dec and Feb and held in judicial custody. The group departed from Fraserganj fishing harbour in South 24 Parganas…
Bagnan: Two people were arrested on Saturday after a group of miscreants burnt down a local BJP worker’s cyber cafe in the Nuntia Crossing area under the Bagnan police station. Following the arson, locals, including Howrah BJP secretary and advocate Omprakash Singh, staged a protest demanding the arrest of the culprits. A Trinamool party office…
Kolkata: The govt has withdrawn the “on-duty” status of state officials assigned to Annapurna Yojana work. This means, booth-level officers (BLOs), Anganwadi workers and other state officials, who are tasked to process and verify appeals by beneficiaries of the women’s social welfare scheme, will be marked absent if they skip their duties at schools or…
Rail Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw visited Chingrighata metro work area , photo Mayukh Sengupta Kolkata: The city will get 60 new-generation trains over the next four to five years, railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday.Soon after touching down in Kolkata, the minister took a ride from the airport to Noapara station, from where he boarded…
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Kolkata: Bengal is set to receive its first bullet train as part of an ambitious Rs 1 lakh crore rail infrastructure expansion announced by railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw at a meeting with Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday. The high-speed line will connect Delhi and Siliguri via Lucknow, Varanasi and Patna. It is designed to…
Kolkata: The enquiry committee probing the issues and allegations related to the office of the placement and training at Jadavpur University submitted their interim report to the vice-chancellor urging the authorities to take steps so that the glory and the sanctity of the university’s placement can be maintained.A source said, “By collecting data and documents…
North Dum Dum TMC councillor Shankar Das. Pic by Amar Kar Kolkata: A mob on Friday stormed the house of North Dum Dum Trinamool Congress councillor Shankar Das and severely assaulted him, leaving him seriously injured. A video that quickly went viral purportedly shows a ‘kangaroo court’ stripping and beating him up. Local sources said…
Kolkata: A third-year MBBS student of Calcutta Medical College and Hospital drowned in the Hooghly during while bathing at Golabari Ghat in north Kolkata early on Saturday morning.The deceased, identified as Soham Basak, 23, a resident of Pranab Nagar in Kanaipur under Uttarpara PS in Hooghly, was swept away and rescued from during a search…
Kolkata: After the change in govt in the state, Bengal Gas Co Ltd (BGCL) has obtained necessary approvals from the administration to lay pipelines in Chandannagar and along a one-kilometre stretch near Kolkata airport, which had remained pending for several months. The company, a joint venture between GAIL and the state-owned Greater Calcutta Gas Supply…
