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…
Two suitcases, filled with notes destroyed by termites, found in a locked storeroom at Surendranath College Damaged currency notes, well-decorated rooms recovered at Surendranath College College staff members broke the locks of two rooms in a new building to find a bed, almirahs, chairs and tables inside Two suitcases, filled with notes destroyed by termites,…
A truck ferrying CNG cylinders was on the Taratala flyover when the cap of a cylinder came off and gas leaked Kolkata: Traffic was briefly suspended on the Taratala flyover on Tuesday morning following a gas leak from a CNG cylinder. The emergency shutdown of traffic led to congestion on Diamond Harbour Road in the…
