The concrete pedestal of the bust was damaged Cops arrest one for vandalism of Syama statue pedestal on Sukia Street —- TOI Kolkata: Tension gripped north Kolkata’s Sukeas Street area after the pedestal of a newly installed statue of Syama Prasad Mookerjee was found vandalized in the wee hours of Sunday.The incident, which took place…
Siliguri: State govt on Sunday introduced a series of measures aimed at improving the experience of tourists visiting north Bengal, including a helpline mapped to the state’s central tourism helpline, and mandatory registration of hotels, tour operators and tour vehicle drivers.Further, tourism minister Shankar Ghosh said the state would conduct a police recruitment drive to…
Kolkata: The grand 125 ft statue of Syama Prasad Mookerjee, the tallest in the country, will come up at Eco Park in New Town. Union home minister Amit Shah is scheduled to lay its foundation stone on Monday.The monumental project aims to honor the enduring legacy of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh founder on his 125th…
Panelists speaking at the event Kolkata: As many as 13 senior finance leaders, speaking at an event on Saturday, shattered the conventional wisdom that institutional-scale finance careers require moving to cities like Mumbai, highlighting instead that Bengal’s financial ecosystem spent three decades quietly reinventing itself. The speakers were leading panels at the fifth edition of…
The body was recovered from the Surjyapur Haat area in Baruipur on Sunday morning (Representative image) BARUIPUR: An 11-year-old girl who had gone missing a day earlier was found dead in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district on Sunday, police said. The body was recovered from the Surjyapur Haat area in Baruipur on Sunday morning,…
Kolkata: Implementation of the Centre’s Bharat Net project in West Bengal has gathered significant momentum over the past month after the state govt granted free ‘Right of Way’ (RoW) permission to the implementing agency, BSNL. The waiver has removed a major hurdle in laying optical fibre cables, enabling work to progress at a much faster…
Kolkata: Indian Oil Dealers’ Forum secretary Kushal Bajoria on Saturday said E20 fuel, a blend of 20% ethanol and 80% petrol, gives around 3%-4% lower mileage than regular petrol, while advising motorists to keep fuel tanks reasonably full to prevent moisture formation.Addressing a news conference organised by the local unit of Press Information Bureau in…
Kolkata: Even as hospitals wait for final instructions from the govt on the rollout of Ayushman Bharat, Swasthya Sathi patients continue to stream in and their bills are still getting approved across most private hospitals in Kolkata. Some have, in fact, been admitting more patients under Swasthya Sathi — the universal health scheme with a…
Saturday turned out to be bright and sunny after the thick cloud cover receded. Pix:- Biplab Bhattacharjee Kolkata: The city could be lashed by a thunderstorm with lightning and gusty winds reaching 40-50 km/hour on Sunday. Heavy to very heavy rain and thunderstorms have been predicted across several districts of south Bengal on Sunday, including…
Students of Ramakrishna Mission are leaving campus on Saturday Kolkata: Students in classes V to X at Narendrapur Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya returned home on Saturday after the residential school announced it would shut down from July 5 for an indefinite period. The closure follows allegations of negligence regarding the death of class XII student Diptangshu…
