Kolkata: The city’s residential market is seeing a clear shift in developer strategy with new supply moving decisively towards premium and luxury housing.The trend mirrors the national pattern, where rising land, construction and financing costs are reshaping project feasibility, pushing developers towards higher-ticket projects to protect margins and capture demand from buyers with stronger purchasing…
Kolkata: Police on Wednesday busted a fake call centre in Kasba and arrested 40 people for defrauding people on the pretext of installing 5G mobile towers and also using reputable firms’ names to convince people to invest in fake insurance policies and taking personal loans. Among the arrested was Sandip Banerjee, the owner, who ran…
CCTV footage of the vandalism Kolkata: Fourteen masked men stormed the seventh-floor Trinamool Congress office at 9 Camac Street at 4.30 am on Thursday, vandalising computers, CCTV monitors and glass panels before fleeing with files containing documents.Six men, all residents of Howrah, have been arrested in connection with the office attack. Police said they are…
Kolkata: Every district, municipality and panchayat in the state should host a school by Vidya Bharati, the education wing of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), CM Suvendu Adhikari said on Thursday and set a target of establishing at least 1,000 such institutions in Bengal within the next year.The CM invited the Vidya Bharati leadership to meet…
Eden Gardens, with a seating capacity of 68,000, will host the Mahalaya event, which the Bengal govt hopes will set a world record Kolkata: The Bengal govt will invite PM Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah to attend a mega event at Eden Gardens on Mahalaya (Oct 10), which will ring in Durga…
Kolkata: Cases of swine flu (H1N1) have seen a sharp spurt in Kolkata over the last week, with symptoms often getting severe. Several private city hospitals have many swine patients admitted.Scores have tested positive for the virus. Swine flu cases had been reported since July. Now, there has been a further spurt and numbers have…
Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee (file photo) Kolkata: Trinamool chairperson and ex-CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday condemned the alleged vandalism at the party’s Camac Street office and warned of staging a dharna outside residences of BJP netas in Delhi if such “atrocities” continued in Bengal.“Even though we believe that the election was looted and…
Tram revamp plan to boost services Kolkata: The Bengal govt is planning to revive and modernise Kolkata’s tram services through a public-private partnership (PPP), with companies from Australia and Belarus expressing interest in participating in the project.“We will float tenders seeking expressions of interest (EOI) from private players after examining the recommendations of the RITES…
Jadavpur University will hold its executive council meeting virtually on Friday to select nominees for appointing a new registrar and finance officer. The VC had sought the higher education minister and chancellor’s advice on holding the meeting. ABRSM called it “illegal”, while JUTA members said the state govt’s approval proves otherwise. Source link
A poster with Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s image and his quote in favour of the Palestinian people put up by ‘Rashtravadi Students of Jadavpur’ Kolkata: Students at Jadavpur University on Thursday “reclaimed” the campus walls by painting stencils and writing slogans after a KMC drive to whitewash “objectionable” graffiti early Wednesday.Students identifying themselves as “rashtravadi students…
