With the week-long ‘Aranya Saptaha’ (forest week) starting from Tuesday, CM Suvendu Adhikari announced that 7.2 crore saplings will be planted this year and there will be a minimum two years of maintenance to protect the same. “I urge every citizen to observe ‘Aranya Saptaha’ and plant a tree in the name of their mother,”…
Kolkata: Work to bridge the last 56 metres of the Orange Line’s viaduct gap at Chingrighata will begin on Tuesday. Track-laying has started so that the corridor can reach Sector V (IT Centre station) this Pujas.The main bottleneck was resolved in May when concrete decks were successfully placed between pillars 317-318 and 318-319 over the…
Kolkata: The Thakurpukur police has arrested three men for the alleged gang rape and molestation of a 22-year-old woman in southwest Kolkata. The arrests were made on Sunday after the survivour managed to escape and report the ordeal to the cops at Netaji Nagar police station. The Netaji Nagar police alerted Thakurpukur police, which thereafter…
Kolkata: Former TMC Panihati MLA Nirmal Ghosh approached Calcutta High Court on Monday seeking protection from arrest. The matter was mentioned before Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya’s bench and is likely to be heard later this week. This comes after Nirmal’s son Tirthankar Ghosh was arrested on Sunday night. Source link
The victim’s mother (L) recounted the alleged assault, while police said a case was registered promptly after receiving the complaint. PASCHIM MEDINIPUR: Following the alleged sexual molestation of a six-year-old Class 1 student in West Bengal’s Paschim Medinipur district, protests have broken out outside the school.Parents and locals demand action against the accused and the…
Kolkata: A private tutor has been arrested for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting a class 12 student at his residence in the Lake Town police station. The accused was apprehended on Saturday and produced before the Bidhannagar court on Sunday afternoon.According to police sources, the incident took place approximately four days ago when the tutor…
Kolkata: A freak accident claimed the life of a two-and-a-half-year-old girl on Sunday morning after she fell into an open underground water reservoir located inside the compound of an under-construction building in New Town.The victim, Ankita Das, was the daughter of a caretaker at a nearby residential building. According to cops, the toddler had gone…
Kolkata: To boost north-south connectivity through public transport, the West Bengal Transport Corporation (WBTC) has launched a new non-AC bus route and revived two popular historical routes on Saturday.The newly introduced route, S-71, establishes a direct link between Khardaha and the state secretariat, Nabanna, in Howrah. Alongside this new connection, transport authorities have restarted two…
Kolkata: The Manicktala police have initiated a preliminary inquiry after a woman, a Trinamool Congress supporter, alleged that she was molested, dragged by her hair, and driven out of her home by a group of 22 neighbours following the declaration of the recent Bengal assembly election results.The incident took place on May 4 this year…
Kolkata: A BJP-supporting woman was allegedly tied to a lamp post, brutally assaulted and subjected to severe torture in South 24 Parganas’ Narendrapur. The victim and her family have accused supporters of former Sonarpur North Trinamool Congress MLA Firdousi Begum of carrying out the attack, though police said there was no direct evidence linking the…
