Kolkata: Senior officials of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) met state officials at Nabanna on Tuesday to discuss possible support for Bengal’s industrialisation and infrastructure agenda, a day after the state govt presented its first budget.The meeting, attended by CM Suvendu Adhikari’s adviser Subrata Gupta, focused on developing industry-supporting infrastructure, including city economic regions (CERs),…
Kolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday said no roads would be named after Mughals or Pathans and announced the appointment of Swami Pradiptananda Maharaj, also known as Kartik Maharaj, to head a road-renaming panel.Replying to the debate on the Governor’s address in the assembly, the CM referred to criticism over the renaming of a…
Kolkata: The CBI on Tuesday arrested proclaimed offender Rohan Sk, alias Kismot Sk, from Mirza Ghalib Street in Kolkata in connection with the 2022 Bogtui carnage case.Rohan had been absconding since the CBI took over the probe on March 25, 2022, following orders from the Calcutta High Court. The case relates to the deaths of…
Kolkata: The ministry of home affairs has added the Haldia Dock Complex as a seaport so that it can be included as a designated immigration checkpoint. This will make Haldia the 41st seaport immigration checkpoint in India..Speaking to TOI, a top official of Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port, Kolkata, told TOI that the move will benefit…
Arrop Biswas at Judges’ court to visit lawyer’s chamber Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court’s division bench on Tuesday adjourned the hearing of a case challenging interim protection granted to former sports minister Aroop Biswas till July 2.Satadru Dutta, the organiser of Messi’s ‘GOAT India Tour’, had filed a case before the division bench of ACJ…
KOLKATA: A day after presenting the maiden BJP budget in the state, finance minister Swapan Dasgupta said much of the praise that has been heaped on the proposals is because people are overwhelmed to discover hope after half a century of despair.“The budget appears to be great because we, the people of Bengal, had given…
2nd airport for Kol region | page 1The state budget unveiled plans for a 2nd airport for the Kolkata region and new airports at Purulia, Balurghat and Malda. It also announced plans for the expansion of the airport in Cooch Behar.Govt hunts for 1k acres for airport near Kalyani | page 3Kolkata: Signalling a major…
India’s rooftop solar sector is booming, but West Bengal is being left in the dark. Despite a nationwide surge in clean energy, West Bengal remains one of the country’s slowest adopters, holding just 67 megawatts (MW) of installed rooftop solar capacity as of March 2026.To put that in perspective, West Bengal’s total capacity is less…
KOLKATA: Former Tarakeswar municipality chairman and senior Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Sapan Samanta was allegedly humiliated by local residents in West Bengal’s Hooghly district over allegations of corruption.According to news agency ANI, an angry group of locals garlanded Samanta with shoes and forced him to perform sit-ups while holding his ears.The locals also pelted him…
