West Bengal Congress President Subhankar Sarkar Kolkata: Bengal Pradesh Congress will observe Martyr’s Day on July 21 at Kolkata’s Shahid Minar ground and demand the reopening of the case files of the 1993 police firing that killed 13 Congress workers. State Congress president Subhankar Sarkar said the party expects a big turnout and will observe…
Dwaipayan.GhoshKolkata: Former minister Aroop Biswas has been named in a fresh FIR over an alleged attempt on a lawyer’s life inside the Alipore court complex. The FIR was registered at Alipore Police Station under BNS sections 109 (attempt to murder) and 153 (wanton provocation with intent to cause a riot) following a violent altercation on…
Kolkata: The Bengal BJP is planning to challenge the “dominating presence” of the Publishers and Booksellers Guild at the International Kolkata Book Fair and promote alternative organisations of publishers and stakeholders as the mega event enters its 50th year in Jan next year.The Bangiya Granthashilpa Parishad, a BJP-backed organisation, will host a meeting of publishers…
Kolkata: Governor R N Ravi, the chancellor of Jadavpur University, stressed the need to acquaint the current generation with the legacy of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and the profound meaning behind Vande Mataram on the author’s birth anniversary on Friday. Terming him a “Rishi divinely ordained to wake up the nation”, Ravi said Vande Mataram galvanised…
Kolkata: Larsen & Toubro (L&T) plans to invest more than Rs 4,500 crore in Bengal over the next few years, with chairman S N Subrahmanyan expected to meet CM Suvendu Adhikari next month to discuss a series of investment proposals.Dip Kishore Sen, adviser to the L&T chairman and managing director, told TOI that Subrahmanyan is…
Kolkata: An 11-year-old boy in Joynagar was allegedly abused by a local man after a minor accident during play.The boy was playing with friends after school when a stick in his hand accidentally hit a passerby, Tapan Haldar. Haldar allegedly dragged the boy by his hair, made him do sit-ups in public, then took him…
Agartala: The tragic explosion at a flat in the Ramnagar locality here on Thursday claimed its first victim on Friday, as Shubhrajit Choudhury, who sustained critical injuries in the blast, succumbed during treatment at Gobind Ballabh Pant (GBP) Hospital.Shubhrajit was an employee at the Abacus Agartala Head Office mathematics study circle. The news of his…
An under-construction warehouse collapsed, resulting in the tragic loss of 14 lives with 19 individuals injured KOLKATA: The death toll in the collapse of an under-construction warehouse in Kolkata’s Taratala area has risen to 14, with 19 others injured, as rescue teams continued to search through the debris on Friday.The warehouse, located off Hyde Road,…
Kolkata: Barasat MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, who is one of the key members of the rebel bloc of MPs, has on Thursday met CM Suvendu Adhikari at Nabanna.According to sources, Kakoli said that the MPs needed more cooperation of the district magistrates. “MPs need to use different state govt agencies for better utilization of the…
Patient party at SSKM on Thursday photo by Sayantan Chakraborty Kolkata: The collapse of an under-construction warehouse in Taratala on Wednesday morning buried dozens of workers under concrete, steel and twisted iron. For one family from Bihar’s Munger, it also destroyed the fragile source of income that had drawn nearly an entire generation of men…
