Howrah: Around 400 people, many of them women, gathered on Friday outside Bagnan MLA Arunava Sen’s home, accusing the Trinamool neta of using his influence to terrorise residents who resisted selling land cheaply along National Highway 16 and other key corridors.Protesters alleged that those who refused were slapped with cases “related to women or drugs”…
Panagarh: Two persons were arrested on Thursday for allegedly installing a CCTV camera near the boundary of an airbase in West Burdwan’s Panagarh. The arrested duo have been identified as Munna Pandit, a garage owner, and Sandip Dubey, a CCTV technician. The two were questioned through the night.Both have been sent in five days of…
Jalpaiguri: Trinamool lost control of Mekhliganj municipality in Cooch Behar after its chairman, who defected to Congress on Friday, said six councillors would follow him into Congress. This will be the first civic body to be managed by Congress since the change of govt in Bengal.Chairman Prabhat Patani received the party flag from state Congress…
Kolkata: Actor and former Trinamool MLA Soham Chakraborty was on Friday booked in a fresh fraud case after a complaint was lodged at Charu Market Police Station, alleging he and his production company cheated an investor of Rs 1 crore in connection with a 2023 film that starred him and Jadavpur MP Saayoni Ghosh.The case…
Kolkata: The house of a Trinamool councillor in Salt Lake, Alo Dutta, who reportedly went into hiding, fearing post-poll violence, was burgled earlier this week, prompting her to return and lodge a complaint on Thursday.Police said Dutta, councillor of Bidhannagar Ward 38, and her husband Nirmal, a former councillor and a Trinamool functionary, fled their…
Tree plantation by CM Suvendu Adhikari at Nolbon, Sector V in World Environment Day Kolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Friday said the state govt would work on expanding environment-related content in school curricula to sensitise students about ecological issues from an early age.“We will evaluate environment and tree plantation-related subjects in the school syllabus…
Kolkata: In a sweeping mandate on World Environment Day, the state govt announced a strict, statewide enforcement of the ban on single-use plastics, permitting only plastic bags with a thickness of 120 microns or more.Municipal and urban development minister Agnimitra Paul on Friday directed officials to stringently implement the national regulation across all urban local…
KOLKATA: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) faced another political setback on Friday after the chairman of Mekhliganj Municipality in Cooch Behar district, along with five councillors, resigned from the party and joined the Congress, shifting control of the civic body to the opposition.The move comes amid continued organisational strain within the TMC following its electoral defeat…
Kolkata: Several neighbourhoods in the Tollygunge-Garia belt experienced power cuts between midnight and 3 am on Friday as circuits in CESC distribution boxes tripped following a sharp surge in load. The utility said its demand hit a record peak, both during the day and night on Thursday, as the city witnessed unprecedented use of home…
Kolkata: IndiGo Airlines will cancel flights from Kolkata to Singapore, Shanghai, Ho Chi Minh City and Siam Reap from July 1 and reduce frequency to Phuket, majorly impacting the city’s international flight connectivity.IndiGo is also slashing domestic flights, cutting back on sectors with multiple frequencies and those with low yields or profitability and relatively low…
