Kolkata: Bengal’s newly elected BJP govt is planning to hold its first industry conclave in the next three to four months, possibly in Sept, according to officials, who said the govt was focused on projects that can be implemented quickly following announcements.“We plan to hold an industry conclave before or soon after Durga Puja. The…
West Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya Kolkata: Scheduled Tribes (STs) will be kept out of the proposed Bengal Uniform Civil Code (UCC), state BJP president and MP Samik Bhattacharya said on Saturday, asserting that their constitutionally protected customs, traditions and special rights would remain untouched.Quoting a provision from the draft UCC on X, Bhattacharya said:…
Kolkata: Temperature fluctuations triggered by rains since last Thursday have unleashed the first spate of monsoon viruses. Hundreds across Kolkata have been laid low with fever, severe cough and body ache since last week. With maximum temperature plunging sharply from 35.5°C last Thursday to 29°C on Friday, the conditions started turning ideal for viruses to…
Marquis Street in Kolkata, which sees influx of Bangladeshi tourists Kolkata: Indian envoy to Bangladesh Dinesh Trivedi’s announcement that India will resume issuing tourist visas to Bangladeshi citizens has brought relief to businesses in Kolkata’s Mini Bangladesh, where hotels, restaurants and shops have struggled since the suspension began nearly two years ago after the 2024…
Kolkata: Vidyasagar Setu will be closed for 12 hours from 6am to 6pm on Sunday for the Hooghly River Bridge Commissioners (HRBC) to undertake the ongoing repair and rehabilitation work including replacement of the stay and holding down cables and bearings which is being done in phases.All west-bound vehicles coming along from AJC Bose Road…
Train services resumed across the full stretch of the Blue Line within about 25 minutes of the incident. (File photo used for representational purpose) KOLKATA: Metro services on Kolkata’s Blue Line were briefly disrupted on Saturday morning after a person allegedly attempted suicide by jumping onto the tracks at Kalighat station, news agency PTI reported.The…
Kolkata: CBSE-affiliated schools in and around the city that offer foreign languages to the students heaved a sigh of relief after a clarification on the circular on its foreign language policy was issued.The Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday clarified that those students in classes 7, 8 and 9, who have been already studying…
Kolkata: A 39-year-old central government employee, Emon Roy, died after falling from the balcony-cum-refuge area of a commercial building in DJ Block, Salt Lake, on Friday evening.Police said Roy, a resident of Graham Road in Regent Park, fell from the balcony of her workplace around 5 pm. She was taken to Bidhannagar Sub-Divisional Hospital, where…
Empty stalls on the pavement outside FD Block park in Salt Lake after the civic administration asked vendors to shift out Kolkata: Illegal stalls, occupying road space and pavements in Salt Lake, have started moving out after instructions from the civic administration. So far, encroachments had reportedly been cleared of two stretches, one of them…
Encroachments along Kestopur canal Kolkata: The state govt would prepare an SOP to clear encroachments from both sides of an 8-km-long stretch of the Kestopur canal, Bidhannagar MLA Sharadwat Mukherjee said after a meeting at Poura Bhavan on Thursday.Pointing out that over 70% of the stretch was encroached upon, Mukherjee said, “An SOP on how…
