KOLKATA: The West Bengal government has downgraded the security cover of former India captain Sourav Ganguly, officials said on Wednesday.According to sources, Sourav Ganguly, who was earlier protected under the Z-category security arrangement, will now receive Y-category security.The decision was reportedly taken after an assessment of his security requirements, though officials have not disclosed any…
KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress spokesperson and state vice-president Jay Prakash Majumdar was arrested by police on Wednesday on charges of harassing a woman and illegally occupying her house for several years, a police officer said. The complainant, Arati Roychowdhury, alleged that Majumdar had moved into the property as a tenant around 12 years ago. However, she…
West Bengal has transferred over 31 acres of land to the BSF for crucial fencing along the India-Bangladesh border KOLKATA: Around 32 acres of land have been handed over to the Border Security Force (BSF) by the West Bengal government for fencing along the India–Bangladesh border, completing a process that had been pending for several…
Termite-ravaged cash exceeding ₹1 lakh was discovered in two suitcases KOLKATA: More than Rs 1 lakh in currency notes, most of them damaged by termites, was recovered from two suitcases kept inside a college union room at Surendranath College in central Kolkata on Tuesday, triggering a police investigation into the source of the cash and…
Former CM Mamata Banerjee greets supporters at a sit-in to protest alleged attacks on party seniors and and workers (R) BJP minister Tapas Roy fends questions from media outside assembly over his claim that more than 50 Trinamool MLAs were ready to break off from the party (L) KOLKATA: The ‘M’ word entered the lexicon…
Kolkata: Kolkata Police has urged landlords in and around Golf Green to be more vigilant while renting out their properties following the deaths of a young man and woman in an apartment at Arabinda Nagar, an incident that has exposed alleged drug-fuelled parties operating in the area.The advisory comes two days after the bodies of…
Sannyasi Mondal and his wife came from Gosaba at CM’s Janatar Darbar Kolkata: A disabled man, who had travelled to Kolkata from Gosaba in a tricycle with his wife walking alongside to reach the BJP state office, sought assistance from CM Suvendu Adhikari at Janatar Darbar on Tuesday for a ‘room under a roof’, enrollment…
Kolkata: In a paper published in the international journal Nature Communications, a team of scientists from the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, that operates under the department of atomic energy, discovered a tiny protein inside liver cells called TCF19 that acts like a traffic controller for fat. The scientists found that when the human…
Known for its clusters of roadside bookstalls, College Street – Kolkata’s boi para –is staring at an uncertain future. Reports of an impending eviction drive targeting structures encroaching on pedestrian pathways have triggered anxiety in the area. Sources say hawkers have been given 15 days to clear any part of their shops or stalls that…
Kolkata: The state higher education department has issued an order mandating that colleges must not charge students in the name of ‘union fee’. The Calcutta High Court passed an order on July 7 in this regard.College principals have received Google Forms from the higher education department with multiple questions to answer. Many colleges whose websites…
