‘I have been humiliated time and again’: Karnataka minister R Ramalinga Reddy quits as minister, flags ‘U-turn’ by DK Shivakumar KOLKATA: TMC’s post-split turmoil played out Thursday along divergent tracks, with several Lok Sabha MPs receiving feelers to dump the Mamata Banerjee -Abhishek Banerjee duo amid signs that some among the 58 MLAs of the…
Kolkata: Anik Dutta’s Satyajit Ray centenary tribute, “Aparajito”, will begin screening at Nandan this Friday in honour of the recently deceased director. Despite a written recommendation from the Nandan film selection committee, the movie was originally blocked from the venue following intervention from “higher authorities”. According to the committee, this controversial exclusion inadvertently sparked a…
Kolkata: Eastern Railway’s Sealdah division will impose two major traffic and power blocks over this weekend for infrastructure upgrades and safety maintenance. Suburban services in Sealdah North and South sections will be regulated because of this.The first is a 15-hour traffic and power blocks on both Up and Down between Sealdah and Kankurgachi Road Junction,…
Kolkata: Livelihood cyclists made up 73% of bicycle-riders in Kolkata, revealed a newly released study, prompting demands for the lifting of the prohibition on the eco-friendly two-wheelers on as many as 71 roads in the city.Bicycles, the cleanest mode of transport independent of any fossil fuel, powered 75% of Kolkata’s short trips, found the study,…
The 65-ft Syama Prasad Mookerjee statue in Lucknow, so far the tallest in the country 65-feet-high bronze statues of Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee in Lucknow Kolkata: A 125-ft-tall statue of Syama Prasad Mookerjee would be erected in the city to honour the legacy of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh founder in his 125th birth anniversary year,…
Katwa: Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday posted a video alleging that BJP-backed miscreants had attacked a TMC party office in Katwa, forcing party worker Sandip Kumar Ghosh to jump from the third floor of the building.Slamming politics of “intimidation and terror”, Banerjee wrote: “This is the jungle Raj that the BJP has…
Kolkata: The state school education department on Thursday reiterated that in-service teachers are not permitted to engage in private coaching and warned of action against violators.The order, issued with reference to Section 28 of the RTE Act, 2009, and a Calcutta High Court order, said the department had received complaints against some school teachers for…
Kolkata: The NIA on Thursday raided properties linked to former Canning East MLA Saokat Molla in connection with an explosion probe. Days before the assembly elections, an explosion during bomb-making killed one in Bhangar’s Bamunia.The team of six NIA officers first reached Molla’s house at North Moukhali and with Molla or his family absent, they…
Kolkata: Bengal speaker Rathindra Bose said on Thursday that Trinamool’s expulsion of MLAs Ritabrata Banerjee and Sandipan Saha did not happen in accordance with the party’s constitution.“According to the party constitution, the expulsion letter isn’t valid,” said Bose. He explained that expulsion could not happen abruptly in one day and that a show-cause notice was…
Kolkata: Whether Mamata Banerjee would be Trinamool chief or chief adviser appeared to be the fulcrum of the standoff among half of the 32 rebel MLAs who turned up at the Bengal assembly for their first meeting with newly elected office-bearers on Thursday.The development came a day after 58 TMC MLAs submitted a letter to…
