Kolkata: Damodar Valley Corporation has for the first time in nearly seven decades initiated a comprehensive de-siltation of its Maithon and Panchet dams — a move aimed at restoring their water storage capacity and reducing the risk of flooding in the lower Damodar basin caused by water releases during heavy monsoon spells.Uncontrolled releases from Maithon…
Kolkata: The decentralised admission portal for undergraduate degree courses will go live after the first phase of joint entrance decentralised counselling, ensuring students have maximum admission opportunities. A dedicated decentralised admission portal has already been readied by the higher education dept.The West Bengal Joint Entrance Board is set to launch the decentralised portal on Monday…
Kolkata: The pandemic may have ended four years ago, but coronavirus continues to throw up an occasional scare. Last week, a newborn, who contracted the virus in her mother’s womb, was saved from the jaws of death at a city pvt hospital. Numerous such cases were reported during the height of the pandemic between 2020…
Agartala: A delegation from the Union ministry of home affairs (MHA) will visit Tripura next week to hold talks on fast-tracking the 2024 Tripartite Agreement with TIPRA Motha, signed before the last general elections, officials said on Sunday.The move follows a two-year stalemate over implementation of the pact among TIPRA Motha, MHA and Tripura govt….
Veteran actor Biswajit Chatterjee pays tribute to Uttam Kumar Kolkata: The four-day Uttam Kumar centenary celebrations, went far beyond traditional retrospectives by revisiting cherished memories through official commemorative stamp, special cover, and silver coin releases, celluloid print screenings at a film festival, a rare letter written by the actor seeking membership of the West Bengal…
According to sources, an ED team in New Delhi started probing a case and the team from Delhi reached the spot early on Sunday Kolkata: An enforcement directorate (ED) team on Sunday morning reached an apartment at Kankurgachhi in connection to a probe. According to sources, an ED team in New Delhi started probing a…
According to police, the woman had met Ghatak on social media around six months ago Kolkata: A youth, Shibranjan Ghatak, was arrested on Friday for allegedly taking a woman to hotels on the pretext of consulting an astrologer, spiking her drink and sexually assaulting her on multiple occasions, police said.Ghatak allegedly also transferred Rs 44,000…
Large stretches of land in Mousuni have been swallowed by the sea Kolkata: For a family living in the Sundarbans or along a river in Malda, leaving home may not always be a choice dictated by a job, marriage or better prospects in a city. Sometimes, the house is swallowed by a river, farmland turns…
The residence of the deceased boy Kolkata: The preliminary post mortem report of 16-year-old Sarit Ghosh who drowned in a swimming pool at Rabindra Sarobar, read death due to drowning while investigators said they are awaiting a final report to know if the youth has suffered a cardiac arrest. “We have sent the blood tissue…
Devotees can now buy coupons through a mobile app Tarapith: Online booking for ‘VIP’ darshan commenced on Sunday at the Tarapith temple in Birbhum. Devotees can now buy coupons through a mobile app. However, alongside this new facility, on-the-spot physical coupons will remain available until the online system functions seamlessly.With ‘Kaushiki Amavasya’ falling this Thursday,…
