Author Taslima Nasrin visits the iconic Indian Coffee House amid heavy police protection. pic by Biplab Bhattacharjee Author Taslima Nasrin visits the iconic Indian Coffee House amid heavy police protection. pic by Biplab Bhattacharjee Author Taslima Nasrin visits the iconic Indian Coffee House amid heavy police protection. pic by Biplab Bhattacharjee Author Taslima Nasrin visits…
Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday refused to grant anticipatory bail to Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee’s personal assistant Sumit Roy in Salboni’s land fraud case but granted him anticipatory bail in Debra’s jobs-for-money case.Justice Tirthankar Ghosh observed that since the allegations against Roy in the land fraud case were serious, the same could not be…
Kolkata: CenturyPly, the Kolkata-based plywood and veneer manufacturer, has drawn up a roadmap to double its turnover to around Rs 12,000 crore by 2031 through capacity expansion across the country. The company plans to invest about Rs 2,500 crore over the next five years to support the expansion.The company, which currently has nine manufacturing facilities…
A policeman speaks to Aditya Singh’s grandmother at their Howrah home Howrah: Posing as a committed BJP supporter, Aditya Singh, a second-year BCom student at Umesh Chandra College in Kolkata and an alleged associate of suspected militant Hamim Mondal, had reportedly been gathering information on minister of state Umesh Rai and his family, according to…
Malda: In an ongoing probe into cough syrup smuggling, police recovered Rs 2.4 crore in cash, 20 gms of gold and 9,000 bottles of a banned drug worth nearly Rs 90 lakh from a trader’s rented room in Malda late on Sunday.While three accused arrested a month ago were present during the operation, carried out…
Agriculture and farmers’ welfare minister Ratan Lal Nath inaugurated and laid foundation for five significant development projects across various areas of Unakoti district, with a total investment exceeding Rs 15 crore Agartala: Tripura has experienced remarkable advancement, said agriculture and farmers’ welfare minister Ratan Lal Nath on Monday in Kailashahar of Unakoti district.The minister inaugurated…
Jalpaiguri: BJP supporters allegedly hurled eggs at their own party functionaries, including a mandal president, during a clash over attempts to bring Trinamool panchayat members to the Chhoto Salbari gram panchayat office in Cooch Behar’s Sitalkuchi on Monday evening.The office had remained largely non-functional after the BJP came to govt in the state. Party seniors,…
Three people were arrested following the raid at a flat in Mangalbari area of Malda district, officials said. KOLKATA: Around Rs 2.5 crore in cash, thousands of bottles of banned cough syrup and a small quantity of gold were seized during an overnight raid in West Bengal’s Malda district as part of a probe into…
Kolkata: The state govt has issued a standard operating procedure (SOP) – including time-bound tax collection, follow-up action against defaulters and identification of alternative sources of income – for improving the revenue of gram panchayats. The govt has set panchayats an annual average revenue target of Rs 1,200 per household.The move assumes significance with the…
Kolkata: ITC has concluded the acquisition of Century Pulp and Paper (CPP), marking the formal integration of the business into ITC Paperboards & Specialty Papers portfolio. The completion, announced through a regulatory filing, makes ITC India’s largest integrated paperboards and paper business. The total installed capacity will rise by over 50% to approximately 1.5 million…
