Bhubaneswar/Kolkata: Bengal Special Task Force (STF) on Wednesday arrested Trinamool Congress Bishnupur MLA Dilip Mondal from Puri in Odisha in connection with cases registered against him for allegedly threatening BJP workers at a rally earlier this month.Mondal was the minister of state for transport in the Trinamool govt for around three odd years.The Bishnupur MLA…
Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari’s scheduled meeting with Union home minister Amit Shah has been deferred, with the latter on a two-day Gujarat visit starting Thursday. Sources said Adhikari was scheduled to reach New Delhi on Thursday night to discuss the Bengal cabinet expansion with Shah. However, even with the discussion getting delayed, the full expansion…
Kolkata: A day after the arrest of Baduria Municipality chairman Dipankar Bhattacharya, police unearthed a huge cache of cash, amounting to Rs 2 crore 24 lakh, buried in a jute field adjacent to his farmhouse at Batuldanga in North 24 Parganas.Police said several sacks and trolley bags stuffed with currency notes were recovered during the…
Swarupnagar: The queue of Bangladeshis looking to return to their homeland has been steadily increasing at the Bithari-Hakimpur border checkpost in North 24 Parganas, with dozens adding to the numbers even on Wednesday. Such has been the rush that three holding centres have been set up in Swarupnagar’s Tetulia, Charghat and Media, said sources. Many…
Kolkata: A stand-off between some parents and St Lawrence School authorities was resolved after cops stepped in on Wednesday. The parents accused the school of withholding ICSE report cards on Wednesday until students paid for alleged damage to property caused two months ago. The students were finally given the report cards without having to pay…
The incident took place in palmer Bazar in kolkata —— Suparna Goswami KOLKATA: A civic volunteer, attached to the Sealdah Traffic Guard, was reportedly assaulted by a biker, and his friends, in the Palmer Bazar area when he and a sergeant stopped the accused for not wearing a helmet. During a check, the biker could…
Kolkata: At a time when the Trinamool bigwigs in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) are witnessing spate of resignations by its councillors, they are also keeping their fingers crossed for the rainy season.The preparedness for the monsoon has taken a ‘backseat’, sources in the KMC said. This has happened due to a ‘non-functional’ civic board.“At…
Dwaipayan GhoshKolkata: Inspector Gautam Das, who was removed from the post of Kalighat OC on May 2 and suspended for posting a now-deleted photograph of himself in uniform on social media aiming an INSAS assault rifle, will now be posted in the chief minister’s Office at Nabanna. Lalbazar revoked his suspension on May 11 and…
Anik Dutta’s house on Hindustan Park Kolkata: Shocked neighbours of Hindustan Park and Dover Lane remember filmmaker Anik Dutta as a dignified and quiet man who kept to himself but who was warm-hearted. Dutta and his wife Sandhi used to live in a duplex in the six-storey (G+5) building at Hindustan Park. But the former…
Kolkata: Police on Wednesday said they had completed the questioning of all three teachers— the principal, a science teacher and a managing committee member—who were mentioned in an FIR of negligence, registered after the death of a class 3 boy, Ayush Kumar Nath, at a private school in Bansdroni on Sunday.Ayush’s father Ashish Kumar Nath…
