The Posta wholesale market in Kolkata was shut down on Thursday following an assault on the general secretary of the Posta Bazar Merchant Association. The strike was called off on Friday Kolkata: Posta Market, one of Asia’s largest wholesale markets, had shut down on Thursday following an assault on the 73-year-old general secretary of its…
Kolkata: Calcutta High Court has declared Monday, July 6, a holiday on account of the 125th birth anniversary of Syama Prasad Mookerjee. Acting Chief Justice (ACJ) Tapabrata Chakraborty announced it for all the benches of Calcutta HC, including circuit benches at Jalpaiguri and Port Blair, as well as district judgeships and the West Bengal Judicial…
Kolkata Film Industries Workers Union meeting on Friday Kolkata: The hiring of National Award-winning makeup artist Somnath Kundu for Suman Sen’s ‘Eka’ — starring Nandita Das, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, and Mona Singh — has sparked a storm in Tollywood. There are further tensions with three new regulatory mandates for Bengal film shoots introduced by a…
Kolkata: A day after allotting union room offices to two workers’ organisations at Subarna Jayanti Bhavan, JU authorities are reconsidering the decision in the face of agitation by SFI students on Friday. The students demanded the decision be revoked since allotting rooms to organisations “directly affiliated to political force” at academic buildings or spaces is…
KMC notice on construction Kolkata: The KMC on Friday issued a modified notification, clarifying that owners of all buildings up to five storeys (G+4) with valid sanction plans could go ahead with constructions, emergency maintenance and repairs. The civic body had to come up with the notification following a rush of harassment complaints from homeowners,…
Kolkata: The liver and kidneys of a 73-year-old deceased donor will be transplanted into three patients in three hospitals in the city through Friday night to early Saturday.This sixth deceased organ donation of the year comes within a week of the previous one.Kasba resident Tapan Sarkar suffered intracranial haemorrhage at home, leading to hospitalisation. He…
Both TMC factions put up their banners outside the building Rebel TMC faction at TMC Bhawan on Friday Kolkata: A day after meeting Election Commission to stake claim to the party’s name and symbol, rebel Trinamool MLAs led by Ritabrata Banerjee, Firhad Hakim, Jawed Khan and Golam Rabbani on Friday evening “took control” of the…
Sixteen people died in the warehouse collapse in Taratala on June 24 Kolkata: Establishing the financial trail that facilitated the vetting of the Taratala warehouse project is the focus of the Lalbazar SIT probe into the collapse. The team is preparing to produce six arrested accused, including Kalicharan Banerjee, suspended officer on special duty (OSD)…
Kolkata: The Kolkata Police cybercrime units carried out two raids, leading to the arrest of four persons from Bihar and Kolkata. The accused were involved in separate financial and digital fraud rackets, worth over Rs 2 crore, police said.While one operation neutralized an interstate APK online invest fraud network, the other busted an illegal call…
Debraj Chakraborty investigation Kolkata: The Bidhannagar Police formed a six-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the extortion case against Debraj Chakraborty, arrested former Trinamool BMC councillor, even as investigators launched an inquiry into charges of financial irregularities, undisclosed assets, money laundering and suspicious investments levelled against him.Chakraborty was arrested after the Calcutta High Court…
