Kolkata: With no significant change in the mercury, the city continued to reel under intense heat and humidity. The Met office expects slight relief between Saturday and Sunday, during which the city might get a spell of rain or two. Even as the southwest monsoon has set over the Kerala coast on Thursday, the Met…
new metro line from kolkata station to Karunamoyee new metro line from kolkata station to Karunamoyee new metro line from kolkata station to Karunamoyee new metro line from kolkata station to Karunamoyee new metro line from kolkata station to Karunamoyee Kolkata: A new project to link Eastern Railway’s Kolkata station (Chitpur) with Salt Lake’s Karunamoyee…
Kolkata: Presidency University has received more than 15,000 applications, nearly double the last year’s figure. Last year, the number of applications was 7,803. The surge came in a year when the university conducted the admission process on its own, shifting away from the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination Board (WBJEEB) system that handled admissions till…
Trinamool Congress councillor Mahesh Sharma (Photo credit: Facebook/Mahesh Sharma) KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress (TMC) councillor Mahesh Sharma was greeted with slogans such as ‘Chor, chor’ (thief, thief) by the crowd when he was brought to the Bankshall court for production on Thursday.Sharma was arrested in connection with alleged extortion and intimidation in his ward under the…
Kolkata Municipal Corporation KOLKATA: The Trinamool Congress councillor of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), Biswajit Mondal, has been arrested on charges of allegedly assaulting and molesting a woman in the metropolis, police said on Thursday.The accused, Biswajit, councillor of Ward No. 114, was arrested following a complaint filed by a woman from the Purba Putiary…
NIA searches former TMC MLA Saukat Mollah’s house in Bhangar blast case KOLKATA: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday conducted searches at the residence of former Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Saukat Mollah in South 24 Parganas district as part of its investigation into a bomb blast in Bhangar ahead of the recently concluded West…
KOLKATA: The BJP’s IT cell head Amit Malviya posted a video on social media purportedly showing a TMC leader hiding under his bed to escape a furious crowd, and said the “cut-money scam” in West Bengal was “producing scenes straight out of a political farce” on Thursday .He said the video was from Cooch Behar…
Tourism in Sundarbans Tiger Reserve Kolkata: A new rule on guide allotment introduced in the Sundarbans Tiger Reserve has led to confusion over hiring of guides by tourists in the delta.Sources said the rule, which mandates allotment of guides during the online booking itself, is unprecedented and is not in effect in any tiger reserve…
Representative image generated using AI KOLKATA: As World Environment Day approaches on June 5, this year hosted by Azerbaijan under the theme “Inspired by Nature. For Climate. For Our Future”, the conversation globally tends to drift toward the visible and the vivid: forests, oceans, melting glaciers. Steel rarely makes the cut. It is unglamorous, industrial,…
Bidhannagar mayor Krishna Chakraborty resigns KOLKATA: Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) mayor Krishna Chakraborty resigned from her post on Thursday, submitting her resignation letter to BMC commissioner Ravi Agarwal at Salt Lake Poura Bhavan.In her resignation letter, Chakraborty cited personal reasons for stepping down.“I have resigned fully for personal reasons. There is nothing else behind it….
