Kolkata: Police re-arrested a man, Mohammad Nehaluddin, and arrested his wife, Neha Parvin, on murder charge in Beniapukur on Monday, hours after the man returned home on bail to meet his two-month old child. Nehaluddin had been jailed previously following an assault complaint by a local family. After his release, the complainants visited him, leading…
Kolkata: The issue of the ISI draft bill, that has generated much debate over the autonomy of the institution, weighed heavily at an event organised to mark the birth anniversary of Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, founder of Indian Statistical Institute. The day is also celebrated as ‘Statistics Day’ by the govt and the institute observes it…
Agartala: A local court sent eight Bangladeshi nationals, apprehended on Sunday evening for allegedly entering the state illegally and attempting to depart from Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport, to police custody on Monday.The police reported that the operation was initiated following an intelligence tip-off suggesting that four Bangladeshi nationals intended to enter Tripura and fly out…
Kolkata: The West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board (WBJEEB) in Kolkata is scheduled to begin counselling forBTech courses in engineering, technology and architecture across 95 govt and govt-aided colleges from Tuesday. The portal will remain live for the first phase of registration, choice filling and payment until July 5.The board will conduct three phases ofcsounselling,…
Midnapore: A police constable was arrested on Sunday evening for allegedly assaulting and molesting a college student while she was returning home from a computer class in the Khirai area of West Midnapore district. The incident has triggered widespread public outrage.The accused has been identified as Biswajit Bhowmik, 30, a resident of Gobardhanpur village in…
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari speaks during the proceedings of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, in Kolkata district of West Bengal, on Monday Kolkata: “Enough is enough, it’s time to teach such people a lesson,” roared CM Suvendu Adhikari in the assembly on Monday referring to AJUP chief Humayun Kabir, adding that he would…
Kolkata: A day after his “removal” from the posts of Iskcon Kolkata vice-president and spokesperson, Radharamn Das issued an open letter on Monday, saying he accepts the organisation’s authority and had no intention of fighting it, forming a separate body or seeking sympathy. Describing himself as a lifelong servant of Srila Prabhupada’s movement, Das said…
Proceedings underway in the Bengal assembly on Monday Kolkata: The Bengal assembly on Monday passed two amendment bills aimed at overhauling the legal framework governing reservations for Other Backward Classes (OBCs), restoring greater powers to the West Bengal Commission for Backward Classes while scrapping the statutory recognition accorded to a list of OBC communities under…
Kolkata: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Taratala warehouse collapse has recovered two mobile phones and several documents during a raid at the Shibpur residence of Kalicharan Banerjee on Sunday. Banerjee served as the officer on special duty (OSD) to former mayor Firhad Hakim.Following the recoveries from the Howrah residence, the SIT directed five…
shams iqbal, ex-councillor of TMC Kolkata: Barely hours after his arrest on charges of extortion., the former ward 134 Trinamool Congress councillor Shams Iqbal, representing Garden Reach, walked out free on Monday.Around 8 am, Shams became the 12th ex-councillor to get arrested since the last week of May. However, by 4 pm, Shams was granted…
