Kolkata: Apprehension of sexual harassment ‘in future’ cannot lead to a complaint under POSH Act, Calcutta High Court held on Aug 31, upholding the setting aside of Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) report against a DSP by a CID contractual employee.The division bench of Justice Madhuresh Prasad and Justice Prasenjit Biswas further held that the complaint…
The accident spot in FC Block, Salt Lake Kolkata: In what medical professionals are describing as a miraculous survival, a 27-year-old schoolteacher from Salt Lake has stepped out of hospital after a 3-week battle for her life. Sandwiched between a lamppost and the bonnet of an errant hatchback, she cheated death against extraordinary odds. She…
CM Suvendu Adhikari monitors the flood situation from the control room at Jalasampad Bhavan on Friday Kolkata/Midnapore: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Friday took stock of the flood situation in south Bengal districts and said there was no need to panic as the administration was evacuating vulnerable people and arranging relief supplies across inundated areas….
Kolkata: Three alleged Bangladeshi smugglers were arrested on Thursday for allegedly assaulting a BSF jawan who tried to prevent a jewellery smuggling attempt at Doharkanda in North 24 Parganas’ Swarupnagar.According to sources, several people had gathered in the India-Bangladesh border area allegedly to smuggle silver jewellery. “A BSF jawan on duty spotted them and tried…
Kolkata: Over 50% — nearly 268.5 million — of Jio’s 524.4 million customers use 5G, making it the largest 5G operator outside China by subscriber base, according to the company’s DRHP.The company said in its filings that Jio built an end-to-end ‘Made in India’ 4G/5G core instead of importing vendor software, in line with the…
Sources said the meeting, held at Amit Shah’s residence, primarily focused on issues concerning the state’s indigenous tribal population, implementation of the tripartite agreement and preparations for forthcoming village committee elections. Agartala: Ahead of forthcoming village committee elections under Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (ADC), a high-level meeting was held in New Delhi between…
While caffeine can give you a quick adrenaline rush, enjoying coffee seems to be an experience worth slowing down for. Across the city, guided tastings and brewing workshops are drawing crowds who are loving the slow burn over the venti-sized chug on the go. We attended a session, the room thick with the smell of…
Kolkata: The Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) has published an “elaborate corruption flowchart” that lays bare an organised decade-old extortion syndicate that was operational from the Dankuni truck terminal, involving multiple cops from traffic guards spread across Kolkata, Bidhannagar, Baruipur and Howrah commissionarates, that illegally collect extortion money from truck drivers.Once the extortion money, ranging between Rs…
Hotel Big Boss restaurant in Tangra — Photo by Indranil Das Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation food safety team wants proper action against the owners of Big Boss, a Chinese restaurant in Tangra, for violating food safety standards. According to a KMC official who participated in the inspection of the restaurant on Wednesday, which found…
Kolkata: As part of a food safety drive, the KMC health dept has inspected several star hotel properties in the past two days. The KMC team of food inspectors on Wednesday visited two well-known star hotels on EM Bypass. The visit, however, found no adulteration in food or contamination in ingredients, a KMC source said….
