Kolkata: The Adani group will set up a health city in New Town Action Area 2 with an investment of at least Rs 2,500 crore. This will be the third such facility the conglomerate will set up in the country after Mumbai and Ahmedabad.Sources close to Nabanna said the Suvendu Adhikari govt has approved the…
Kolkata: A class 10 student at Sodepur High School, Kaustav Mondal, drowned in the Hooghly while allegedly trying to shoot a reel off 12 Mandir Ghat in Panihati on Friday afternoon. His classmate, Nilchandra Das, who also fell in the water was rescued. Khardah Police Station cops and state disaster management department fished Mondal’s body…
Kolkata: A newborn from Tripura born with a dumbbell-shape tumour on her chest wall got a fresh lease of life in Kolkata after a life-saving surgery on the 12th day of her life by doctors at Narayana Hospital Howrah (NHH). The baby, who is now three- months old, is growing up well back home in…
Kolkata: The city emerged as India’s second-most affordable housing market among eight major cities in Jan-June 2026, according to Knight Frank India’s Affordability Index. The city recorded an EMI-to-income ratio of 25%, indicating that an average homebuyer spends one-fourth of household income on home loan EMIs. This is comfortably below the 50% affordability threshold, beyond…
Kolkata: Diamond Harbour Police has lodged an FIR over alleged large-scale irregularities in Sebashray health camps, implicating Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee under 27 penal sections.These include charges of cheating and forgery under BNS, as well as violations of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, the Atomic Energy Act, the National Medical Commission Act, the…
Howrah Station set for upgrade Local Train standing at Howrah Station —————- Koushik Koley Kolkata: The grand old Howrah Station, Asia’s oldest railway hub, will get two new platforms, extend the existing platforms to accommodate 22-coach trains and carry out redevelopment work to upgrade the facility and ease congestion, Howrah DRM Vishal Kapoor said on…
Kolkata: The Bengal cabinet on Thursday, chaired by CM Suvendu Adhikari, decided to hand over nearly 54.2 acres of land to the Border Security Force (BSF) and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) on a perpetual transfer basis. The decision aims to strengthen border infrastructure in the strategically sensitive Siliguri Corridor, popularly known as the “Chicken’s Neck”.In…
Saokat Molla at Jibantala on Thursday Kolkata: Former Canning East MLA Saokat Molla, an accused in multiple criminal cases, was taken to a crime scene in Canning’s Jibantala on Thursday for a reconstruction of events as part of an ongoing police investigation. As he arrived in the market area under police escort, large crowds gathered…
Rejinagar: Skipping Shaktipur police’s summons for questioning over his provocative public speeches, Nowda MLA and AJUP chairman Humayun Kabir attended jumma namaz at the proposed ‘Babri Masjid’ near Maradighi on Friday.Kabir followed it up with a threat to gherao Shaktipur PS and called its OC a “goon” in police uniform.On June 30, a day after…
File photo Lalbazar police headquarters Kolkata: In a major police reshuffle across the state, 16 deputy superintendents of police (DSPs) and sub-divisional police officers (SDPOs), along with 108 inspectors-in charge (ICs), were transferred within the West Bengal Police. The ICs of Baruipur, Sonarpur, Narendrapur, Canning, Diamond Harbour, Falta, Budge Budge and Nodakhali were reassigned. The…
