Patchwork has already been completed on stretches on EM Bypass. pic by Suparna Goswami Kolkata: Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will have to step up road repairs across the city after incessant rain left craters and damaged stretches of several major thoroughfares.A KMC roads department official said potholes and craters had surfaced on stretches of a…
File pic of theme idol at Kashi Bose Lane BEST PUJA winner in North Kolkata – KASHI BOSE LANE DURGA PUJA COMMITTEE. Photo: TOI Kolkata: Theme artistes in Kolkata say reverence for Ma Durga and artistic freedom are not opposing impulses, even as recent advisories from the VHP and the govt have urged Durga Puja…
Kolkata: A road traffic accident 13 years ago had Bolpur resident Saswata Kundu limping and whining in pain at each step he attempted to take. Now after an ankle replacement surgerythe 33-year-old Bolpur man has regained the ability to walk and has started bouncing back to normal life.Kundu had sustained a severe fracture in his…
Modern High students at an inter-school event in Kolkata Kolkata: Thirty-nine inter-school competitions, nine overall distinctions and over 150 prizes—Modern High School’s inter-school circuit in 2026 has been defined by diversity, consistency, effort and an ever-growing sense of curiosity.Beginning in April with Youthopia and X-Celsior, the calendar grew steadily through May and June, with students…
Kolkata: A day after CM Suvendu Adhikari on Monday warned against child marriage, the husband of a minor girl was arrested under the Pocso Act after she gave birth to a child on Tuesday.The husband was produced before a city court that remanded him in judicial custody till Sept 22.Cops from the Shyampukur PS arrested…
Police on Tuesday seized 100 packets of cannabis and two improvised semi-automatic pistols from a Jharkhand-registered vehicle that caught fire on NH-16 at Nimdighi in Uluberia. The driver fled. Police said the vehicle, heading towards Kolkata from Kolaghata, had a fake number plate attached over the original one. Source link
Kolkata: Conmen from Taratala allegedly duped a jobseeker of Rs 4 lakh after they falsely promised the man of securing him a well-paid job in New Zealand.The victim’s wife lodged a complaint at the Taltala Police Station against three persons, including a woman. The jobseeker, a resident of Alimuddin Street, had approached an office on…
Nizam’s, which shut on Tuesday, plans to carry out an independent testing with the help of a third-party agency Kolkata: The suspension of licences of around 40 restaurants by the KMC has caused much anxiety in the city’s food and hospitality industry weeks ahead of the festive season, when restaurants typically see a surge in…
KMC Crackdown On Hotels, Lodges Kolkata: After closing down over 900 lodges and guest houses across the city’s 144 wards, the KMC will conduct suo motu hearings of owners who want to reopen their establishments after upgrading the fire safety norms.KMC launched a strict inspection of lodges, guest houses and hotels, checking for their compliance…
Niladri Bhattacharjee is told to make his office fire safety-compliant Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Tuesday allowed advocate Niladri Bhattacharjee to retrieve his case briefs from his chamber on the first floor of Florence Mansions, where a fire broke out at Shikha Inn on second floor on Aug 19. He can get his files out…
