Hooghly district police arrested Delhi Capitals batter Abhishek Porel late Monday night. KOLKATA: Delhi Capitals player Abhishek Porel was arrested by Mogra police in Hooghly late Monday night after the Calcutta high court directed police to arrest him in connection with a rape case filed by a third-year medical student.Porel was produced before the Chief…
The Calcutta high court extended interim protection for Aroop Biswas until November 30 KOLKATA: The Calcutta high court on Tuesday extended the interim protection from coercive action granted to former West Bengal sports minister Aroop Biswas till November 30.The protection was granted in connection with the chaos surrounding Lionel Messi’s event at Salt Lake Stadium…
In photo: Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee, TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee KOLKATA: The fallout from the death of a Trinamool Congress worker in police custody, the confrontation during Mamata Banerjee’s visit to his family and a key court hearing involving TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee are among the developments dominating Kolkata’s political news cycle. The…
Kolkata: The owner of the 52-year-old Rangana Theatre, which has been shut for nearly 23 years, reached out to CM Suvendu Adhikari to seek his help to get its possession back. The owner, Hirak Mukhopadhyay, alleged that a cosmetic factory that he had opened to provide jobs to the staff at the theatre was forcibly…
Kolkata: A right-versus-right fight erupted at Jadavpur University after a right-wing staff union held a protest at Aurobindo Bhavan portico on Monday at the same spot where the ‘yajna’ was performed by the other right-wing group on Friday demanding removal of acting registrar and finance officer and for the awakening of good sense and wisdom…
TMC’s party office at Ward 106, Garfa …..Debobrata Shome. Kolkata: Tensions erupted in south Kolkata on Monday as local Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers locked down the Garfa constituency office of Jadavpur MP Saayoni Ghosh and removed her nameplate, accusing her of political betrayal and operating on behalf of an opposing political outfit.The conflict centred on…
Kolkata: Two Ekbalpore youths fell prey to a fake placement agency, one of them getting arrested in Uzbekistan for entering the country illegally. They finally managed to return through Kazakhstan after being released but were shocked after their return when both men, including their family members, were threatened by the office bearers of the fake…
Kolkata: More than 90% of the highrise projects that underwent safety audit in the past month and a half were found to be structurally sound with no major deviations from plans sanctioned by the respective civic body, officials of Credai, the developers’ umbrella body, said on Monday.They said about half the audited projects already received…
A group of doctors visited the housing complex to treat the ill residents Kolkata: More residents of Siddha Happyville in Rajarhat reported vomiting, diarrhoea and stomach pain on Monday even as the Public Health Engineering (PHE) dept collected water samples from the housing complex on Monday to ascertain the source of suspected contamination and complex…
Agartala: Ahead of elections for village committees of the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (ADC), the CPM staged a protest in Tripura on Monday, accusing the BJP-led govt of undemocratic and authoritarian conduct.A few hundred supporters were detained in Agartala, with party officials asserting that comparable civil disobedience actions occurred at 21 additional sites…
