Kolkata: The state is set to roll out ‘Ekti Gaachh Maa-er Naam-e’ drive across Bengal on Friday, World Environment Day, with a target of planting 1.1 crore saplings by March 2027. The project is in alignment with the PM’s ‘Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam’ national initiative that was launched in 2024.Under the project in Bengal,…
Kolkata: Findings of a recent study released ahead of World Environment Day on June 5 have found how safer livelihood practices have reduced human-tiger conflicts across three fringe forest villages — Deulbari, Maipith and Binodpur — in the fragile ecosystem of the Sundarbans by 46% over seven years.The villages come under Kultali block, one of…
Kolkata: Jadavpur University vice-chancellor Chiranjib Bhattacharjee appeals to all stakeholders of the university to kindly refrain from undertaking any unofficial or independent drive for vaccination, sterilization, identity-tagging, medical treatment concerning campus dogs because “uncoordinated interventions by different stakeholders are leading to confusion and misunderstanding regarding the status, treatment, and management of campus dogs”.Bhattacharjee requested all…
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: 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: With no significant change in the mercury, the city continued to reel under intense heat and humidity. The Met office expects slight relief between Saturday and Sunday, during which the city might get a spell of rain or two. Even as the southwest monsoon has set over the Kerala coast on Thursday, the Met…
new metro line from kolkata station to Karunamoyee new metro line from kolkata station to Karunamoyee new metro line from kolkata station to Karunamoyee new metro line from kolkata station to Karunamoyee new metro line from kolkata station to Karunamoyee Kolkata: A new project to link Eastern Railway’s Kolkata station (Chitpur) with Salt Lake’s Karunamoyee…
Kolkata: Presidency University has received more than 15,000 applications, nearly double the last year’s figure. Last year, the number of applications was 7,803. The surge came in a year when the university conducted the admission process on its own, shifting away from the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination Board (WBJEEB) system that handled admissions till…
Trinamool Congress councillor Mahesh Sharma (Photo credit: Facebook/Mahesh Sharma) KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress (TMC) councillor Mahesh Sharma was greeted with slogans such as ‘Chor, chor’ (thief, thief) by the crowd when he was brought to the Bankshall court for production on Thursday.Sharma was arrested in connection with alleged extortion and intimidation in his ward under the…
Kolkata Municipal Corporation KOLKATA: The Trinamool Congress councillor of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), Biswajit Mondal, has been arrested on charges of allegedly assaulting and molesting a woman in the metropolis, police said on Thursday.The accused, Biswajit, councillor of Ward No. 114, was arrested following a complaint filed by a woman from the Purba Putiary…
