Kolkata: Hitting the pause button on the acrimony of an election season where their parties are pitted against one another in Bengal, LoP in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and Trinamool’s leader in the LS Abhishek Banerjee spoke on a telephonic call on Friday evening. While Gandhi dialled Abhishek to thank him for the “floor coordination”…
Nandigram: Crude bombs were allegedly hurled at BJP neta Abbas Beg’s house in Nandigram late Thursday, hours after he filed a police complaint against TMC neta Sheikh Sufiyan.Beg, BJP Tamluk minority cell general secretary, said the attack in Nayana was meant to silence him. “It was a clear attempt to eliminate me for speaking out…
Kolkata: Just 72 hours to go before the Supreme Court’s first deadline to add voters cleared by SIR tribunals, Election Commission has yet to publish the name of a single person whose voting right has been reinstated and who can participate in the first phase of the Bengal polls on April 23.More than 27 lakh…
Kolkata: Darjeeling, Siliguri, Cooch Behar and North Dinajpur will cease to exist if the delimitation bill is passed, CM Mamata Banerjee said on Friday, slamming the BJP-led govt’s move as a “deliberate attempt at dividing the country”.“They tabled the delimitation bill. Women’s reservation is a false front, as I support it independently. We will support…
Kolkata: Income-tax officials on Friday raided CM Mamata Banerjee‘s poll nomination proposer Miraj Shah (also the trustee of one of the state’s biggest private educational institutions), and Trinamool’s Rashbehari candidate Debashis Kumar, prompting the CM to call BJP “cowards and spineless” and ask why it is so scared. “Ballots, and not bullets, win polls,” she…
Kolkata: Bharatpur MLA and AJUP chief Humayun Kabir on Friday moved the Calcutta High Court, seeking a court-monitored probe into the 19-minute viral sting video purportedly featuring him and an unidentified man. Kabir said the video, which purportedly shows him saying that he took money from BJP to mislead Bengal’s Muslims, was part of a…
Kolkata: Several electors who are sick and aged below 85 are seeking clarifications from BLOs whether they can avail of the postal ballot facility at home. Recently, a BLO from Shyampukur constituency has written a letter to the public grievance redressal (PGRS) cell of the Election Commission and the governor, flagging concerns about the voters,…
Kolkata: Two contemporary Bengali films — one adapted from a Tagore play and another on the jatra culture of Bangladesh with a Kolkata-based sound designer — are being screened at the Moscow International Film Festival. This is in addition to the screening of the restored ‘Saat Pake Badha’.While Joyraj Bhattacharjee’s ‘Bisarjan’ is in the Apocalypse…
Kolkata: Rampant on-road parking is choking Kolkata’s already strained road network, with transport officials warning that unchecked encroachment of carriageways is severely impacting mobility across the city. “In a city with extremely limited road space, parked vehicles are reducing usable carriageway and slowing down traffic,” said a transport department official.Kolkata has just 6% of its…
Kolkata: The temperature has started rising once again a day after thundershowers pulled it down below the normal mark. On Friday, the maximum temperature in Kolkata rose to 34°C from 32.4°C the previous day. With no possibility of rain in the next few days, brace for hot and sultry days ahead. Met officials said the…
