Kolkata: Three emergency patients, who were rushed to state-run IPGMER-SSKM Hospital were admitted to KPC Medical College on Monday. These three cases are the first lot of patients who are getting medical care at private hospitals free of cost under the state govt’s initiative of making private hospitals provide free treatment on 10% beds for…
Kolkata: Ayushman Bharat (AB) patients continued to trickle in for the second day on Tuesday. The AB-PMJAY scheme for Bengal was rolled out Sunday. Hospitals started admitting patients under this scheme from Monday.In addition, the empaneled private hospitals are also getting calls from individuals enquiring on documents required to bring to the hospital in case…
Tarapith: Fifteen hotels in Tarapith were shut down on Tuesday for allegedly failing to meet mandatory safety and statutory requirements, a day after a fire at Hotel Bideshini claimed nine lives.The establishments, all located in Chandipur, where Monday’s blaze broke out, were served immediate closure notices after officials found deficiencies including the absence of pollution…
Kolkata: Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee’s personal assistant Sumit Roy was questioned by CID for the tenth straight day on Tuesday. By rough estimates, he has already faced nearly 70 hours of questioning in two cases. Sources said he has been summoned again, for the 11th time.According to officials, Tuesday’s session focused primarily on the Debra…
Kolkata: TMC MP Saugata Roy faced a BJP protest at Kolkata airport on Tuesday when he arrived to attend a meeting of the Passenger Safety Committee. Roy, chairman of the committee as the Dum Dum Lok Sabha MP, was surrounded by BJP workers as his car entered the Airport Authority of India office premises. Protesters…
Suvendu Adhikari at Birju Keot’s house Kolkata: Bengal govt has ordered a CID investigation into the death of Birju Keot, 10 days after the death of the Halisahar Trinamool worker in police custody. Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari had earlier acknowledged police negligence in the incident. He had met the family and had ordered a magisterial…
One accused was arrested by STF from this house in Bhangar’s Panapukur Kolkata: Bengal STF has uncovered four separate modules allegedly linked to Pakistan’s ISI, each using a different method to operate in the state through handlers in Bangladesh and Nepal.One group, involving Hamim Mondal, Arpita Sarkar and Aditya Singh, allegedly planned gangster-style activities combined…
The Orange Line’s persistent efforts have paid off as the Chingrighata bottleneck is now a thing of the past, following the installation of the final concrete slab KOLKATA: The Orange Line has finally cleared the long-standing Chingrighata bottleneck, more than six years after construction at the key intersection first ran into hurdles. The last 31-metre…
Kolkata Customs seized 160 kg of illegally imported plants, plants material and seeds from a Bangkok flight on Monday Kolkata: Customs officials at Kolkata airport seized around 160 kg of live plants and seeds worth several crores allegedly brought illegally from Bangkok by two Indian passengers. The seized material was examined by a plant quarantine…
Rescue teams continued operations at the site to ensure that no one remained trapped under the debris. KOLKATA: One person was killed and 19 others were injured after a building collapsed in Kolkata’s Jorabagan area, officials said on Tuesday.The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and Disaster Management Group (DMG) teams launched rescue operations following the…
