A family takes a dinghy ride home in Ghatal on Saturday Burdwan/Kharagpur/Tarakeswar/Siliguri: With rainfall easing in the upper catchment areas, Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) on Saturday reduced the volume of water discharge from Maithon and Panchet reservoirs, improving the flood situation in East and West Burdwan and Ghatal in West Midnapore. However, many villages in…
Firefighters battle the blaze at the hospital Siliguri: A fire broke out at a prominent private hospital in Siliguri on Saturday evening, sending thick black smoke through a section of the facility and triggering panic among patients, their relatives and hospital staff. There were no casualties.As the smoke spread, several patients admitted in the affected…
Malda: The health department has removed Prasenjit Bar as medical superintendent-cum-vice principal of Malda Medical College & Hospital after 89 infant and neonatal deaths were recorded at the facility in Aug. Ganesh Chandra Gayen, head of ENT department at the college, will replace Bar.Paediatrics department head Sushma Sau has also been replaced by Biswanath Basu…
Matibul Fakir, a resident of Adaldar Para who moved to Kerala two weeks ago to work as a construction labourer, died after a truck hit him in Thrissur on Friday Kolkata: An impoverished family from Diamond Harbour has appealed to district administration and Bengal govt for help to bring home the body of a migrant…
Officials examined records of movable and immovable assets to verify whether the properties were acquired with illicit funds Kolkata: A team from the state govt’s Commission on Institutional Corruption on Saturday searched the residences of former Trinamool councillors Jiban Saha and Alokananda Das over alleged disproportionate assets.The searches came two days after the commission, headed…
Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari (file picture) Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari announced the Bengal govt will set up two CM-Shri model schools, modelled on Centre’s PM-SHRI scheme, in every district and two centres for excellence for sports in north Bengal, at a Teachers’ Day event at the New Town convention centre on Saturday.“We will set up…
Agartala: The situation in Tripura’s Baramura Hills turned tense on the second day of a road blockade by former militants demanding a rehabilitation package, posing fresh challenges for police.The protest has stranded many vehicles, disrupting patients, travellers and candidates heading for exams. People needing urgent medical care have been forced to wait as movement remains…
Agartala: A BSF woman constable missed her flight to Karnataka after she was allegedly stopped at a road bloackade in Tripura while trying to reach her critically ill father, sources said.The jawan, posted along the Indo-Bangladesh border in Dhalai district, was granted leave after receiving news of her father’s critical condition in a village in…
Walling with quotations,slogan etc by JU students……Debobrata Shome Kolkata: Right-wing students’ body — Nationalist Students’ Front — made debut on JU walls on Friday with anti-communist and nationalist slogans to send out a message they too “own” the campus walls as much as the leftist students do.Around 10 NSF members wrote slogans, drew graffiti on…
Kolkata: Train cancellations following track subsidence near New Farakka have triggered a travel crisis during the Janmashtami weekend, sending both air and bus fares to and from North Bengal soaring. Services of two trains, Howrah-Kamakhya Vande Bharat Sleeper Express and Howrah-Dibrugarh Kamrup Express, however, were restored on Friday.On Friday, one-way Kolkata-Bagdogra flight tickets for the…
