Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee sat down at a roadside tea stall in Collins Lane on Tuesday, and spoke to locals, after the EC didn’t allow her to take out a rally in the area. The rally had to be cancelled at the eleventh hour after an EC representative told TMC the rally couldn’t be taken…
Kolkata: Police on Monday seized around 1,160.6 gm gold jewellery, valued at Rs 92.1 lakh, on Amherst Street in the Jorasanko constituency. The occupants of the vehicle, in which the gold was being ferried, could not produce valid papers. In a raid around 12.18 pm on Tuesday, a vehicle was stopped at the Lord Sinha…
Kolkata: A division bench of Calcutta High Court on Tuesday recused itself from hearing the National Investigation Agency‘s (NIA) plea challenging the bail granted to 15 accused in the April 2025 Beldanga clash.The bench of Justice Arijit Banerjee and Justice Apurba Sinha Ray sent the case to the bench of Chief Justice Sujoy Paul, who…
Darjeeling: Polling personnel in Darjeeling set out on a 16-hour journey to reach Samden, located 78 km from Darjeeling at an altitude of over 7,500 feet, to conduct polling at what is considered West Bengal’s last polling booth with 191 registered voters.The polling team began its movement from the district collection centre, combining a long…
Nandigram/Kolkata: Just 48 hours before polling in the high-stakes Nandigram assembly constituency on April 23, the EC replaced police observer Hitesh Choudhary, an IPS officer from Madhya Pradesh, with Akhilesh Singh of the Assam cadre.In its order directing Choudhary to leave East Midnapore and report to the CEO office in Kolkata, the EC did not…
Kolkata: A real estate developer narrowly escaped an alleged kidnapping attempt linked to an extortion demand. According to a victim’s complaint, the incident occurred on the evening of April 19 near a petrol pump on Karl Marx Sarani. The developer said that he had been called to the spot under the pretext of a business…
Kolkata: A real estate developer narrowly escaped an alleged kidnapping attempt linked to an extortion demand. According to a victim’s complaint, the incident occurred on the evening of April 19 near a petrol pump on Karl Marx Sarani. The developer said that he had been called to the spot under the pretext of a business…
Kolkata: Surgeries halted midway and patients inside operation theatres and wards were wheeled out on stretchers and wheelchairs after a fire broke out inside the second-floor cathlab of Anandalok Hospital on Tuesday morning, triggering panic and an emergency evacuation in the middle of critical procedures.The blaze, reported started around 10 am at the hospital near…
Kolkata: As Bengal prepares for its upcoming assembly elections, a quiet but crucial mission is unfolding at the Regional Braille Press in Narendrapur. Run by the Ramakrishna Mission Blind Boys’ Academy, the press is working double shifts to ensure thousands of blind voters exercise their franchise with dignity and accuracy.The press, which was established in…
