Kolkata

KOLKATA: In a late-night operation that marked another visible change in the city, the giant football-themed installation outside the Salt Lake Stadium — a sculpture conceptualised by former chief minister Mamata Banerjee — was partially dismantled between Saturday midnight and the morning after, days after the new state govt announced its decision to remove the…

Kolkata: Actor Swastika Mukherjee appeared at the Gariahat Police Station on Saturday and was questioned for nearly an hour, days after an FIR was registered against her and actor Parambrata Chattopadhyay over an alleged post-poll violence-related social media post and comment, dating back to 2021.Police questioned Mukherjee over allegations that she supported a social media…

Kolkata: A day after Trinamool general secretary Abhishek Banerjee threw an open challenge for anyone to prove he violated KMC building rules, state municipal affairs minister Agnimitra Paul said it was incumbent on him to reply to the notices and provide clarification, and not the other way round. “For 15 years, you were above the…

Kolkata: The website of Jadavpur University (JU) website has become the first among the state’s prominent universities to reflect the new political reality on the ground. A poster of Kreeda Bharati, a sports organisation founded by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, is posted on the website, starting off a debate among teachers, students and alumni.The poster is…

KOLKATA: Bengal’s new BJP govt has slashed a two-day holiday for Eid-ud-Zoha or Bakrid announced by the previous TMC administration to one day. In a notification issued Saturday, the BJP govt announced the Bakrid holiday would be observed on May 28. Earlier, the official holiday calendar announced at the beginning of the year by the…

Kolkata: Four bikers were injured in two separate accidents in the city between Friday night and Saturday morning. All of them wore helmets and escaped fatal injuries. Rajesh Jindal (55) of Golabari in Howrah was hit by a mini truck near Rabindra Sadan around 6.30 am on Saturday and is still admitted at SSKM hospital….

Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari KOLKATA: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday announced the rollout of Centre’s flagship health insurance scheme Ayushman Bharat in Bengal from July with more than 6 crore residents who were previously enrolled in the state’s Swasthya Sathi programme within its ambit. Enrolment under Ayushman Bharat has already begun and beneficiaries will…

Kolkata: An allegedly illegal car rental kiosk, operating outside the Kolkata airport for years under the label of ‘Prepaid Cab-City & Outstation’, was finally headed for a shutdown after the Trinamool-controlled union, which ran it, agreed to vacate the premises. The move came within three weeks of the change in govt.Airport officials declared the outlet…

KOLKATA: Cops on Saturday recovered the body of South Dum Dum Municipality Trinamool councillor Sanjay Das (49) from his home, with preliminary probe pointing to suicide.It was not immediately known whether the death was in any way linked to the ongoing probes into civic corruption and extortion allegations and the arrests of several Trinamool councillors…

Kolkata: A Trinamool party office, which was allegedly painted saffron after the BJP’s win in the Assembly election, was demolished with a payloader on Debendra Chandra Dey Street near Tangra on Saturday. The demolition came after the owner of the land reportedly told a BJP functionary that Trinamool had forcibly set up the office on…