Kolkata: Bengal National Chamber of Commerce & Industry president Ashok Kumar Banik was removed from the post on Saturday after he was arrested on Friday on charges of extortion, criminal intimidation and cheating. Produced before a Barasat court, Banik was remanded to five days of police custody.Banik was arrested by cops in connection with the…
Kolkata: The structural engineer who signed the plan of the ill-fated under-construction warehouse that collapsed, killing 16 workers, on June 24 was on Saturday summoned to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation headquarters for questioning.The engineer, who retired recently, was empanelled as a structural engineer with the civic body. He was grilled by the civic brass on…
A still from ‘All That Matters to Them’ Kolkata: Lives of climate refugees on Ghoramara island in the Sunderbans have been brought to the forefront in Mrinmoy Sarkar’s ‘All That Matters to Them’, which received the Satyajit Ray Golden Award at the 9th South Asian Short Film Festival. Organized by the Federation of Film Societies…
Kolkata: Three officials from the I&C department met nine technicians on Friday evening. The technicians described the meeting as “positive” and “fruitful”, which led to a pause in the protest march that members of the Federation of Cine Technicians and Workers of Eastern India had scheduled for Sunday. The protest was initially called to address…
Apart from a 3-cottah land in Hatiara, Rajarshi Bhattacharya’s parentsdonated Rs 6.8 lakh for a smart classroom in the organic chemistrydepartment at Rajabazar Science College Kolkata: The parents of Rajarshi Bhattacharya, a Presidency University and Calcutta University alumnus, who died during his research days at IISc in Bangalore, gifted three cottahs of land at Hatiara…
Kolkata: The historic Belvedere House at the National Library is set to open a new chapter in India’s cultural landscape with the inauguration of the first-of-its kind museum on Indian languages — Museum of Word — also known as Shabdalok, on July 19. Home minister Amit Shah is scheduled to inaugurate the museum as the…
An earlier photo of Shaky, who had lived on the campus since young age. She died due to maggot infestation on Wednesday Kolkata: The death of a dog, lodged in the new enclosure at IIM Calcutta—it died of maggot infestation—has sparked an outrage among alumni, students and a section of faculty members at the business…
Kolkata: The KMDA is taking up carriageway and structural repair of seven canal bridges in north Kolkata, including the old Durgapur bridge connecting Ultadanga with VIP Road, where large potholes have developed amid rain, leading to congestion.“The repair of the old Durgapur bridge’s road surface will start at the earliest,” said an official. The work…
Kolkata: The impasse over the relocation of BC Roy Market was the focus at the meeting, held by a high-level task force at Nabanna on Saturday, which aimed at clearing the major site acquisition hurdle for the Purple Line’s underground Esplanade terminal station.Implementing agency RVNL requires the temporary relocation of 528 stall owners to build…
Kolkata: RVNL started concrete deck launching between piers 326 and 327 of the Orange Line after 8pm on Friday and proceeded steadily throughout Saturday. Since the Chingrighata flyover has been shut and Nicco Park bound traffic is being diverted through a slip road built by RVNL, there were traffic snarls on the Bypass as cars…
