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…
Hamim Mondal (left) and his alleged girlfriend Arpita Sarkar under police custody. KOLKATA: The West Bengal Special Task Force (STF) is probing how a Pakistan-linked terror module used social media and an online gaming platforms to identify, recruit and assign operational roles to youngsters, as investigators widen their probe into the network around suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed…
KOLKATA: The West Bengal Special Task Force (STF) on Monday arrested a third associate of suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM)-linked operative Hamim Mondal as part of its probe into an alleged Pakistan-backed terror module.According to police, the accused, identified as Aditya Singh, was arrested from Howrah after questioning Hamim Mondal and his woman friend. Aditya Singh allegedly…
Exiled author Taslima Nasreen criticized madrasa education systems in Kolkata KOLKATA: Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen on Sunday launched a sharp attack on the madrasa education system, alleging that some institutions have become “factories for producing ‘jihadis’” and calling for strict government regulation and sweeping reforms to curb religious extremism.Addressing a press conference in Kolkata,…
Kolkata: Two persons died in two incidents in the city on Sunday. Basirhat resident Ranjit Ray (25) died after allegedly coming in contact with a live high-voltage electric line in a building on Taratala Road. Co-workers and locals took him to Vidyasagar State General Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival. In another incident,…
Kolkata: A retired scientist from New Town who was allegedly defrauded of more than Rs 1 crore in a digital-arrest fraud earlier this year finally has hope of a full recovery of his money. Bidhannagar cops have arrested three persons from the Behala area — Biku Kumar, Duronto Patra, and Mohammad Javed — in connection…
Arpita Sarkar was allegedly being prepared to take on a role similar to that of arrested alleged ISI operative and influencer Jyoti Malhotra.(C) KOLKATA: A 22-year-old woman from Jharkhand, arrested alongside a suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) operative, was allegedly being groomed by Pakistan-based handlers to run espionage and honey-trap operations in India, according to investigators.The West…
The spot at BT Road where the accident took place on Saturday morning Kolkata: Suspecting that construction materials piled on the roadside could have led to Saturday’s fatal accident in which two young siblings were killed after a truck hit their scooter, cops have launched a hunt for the builder accused of illegally stockpiling stone…
Kolkata: Commuters on one of South Kolkata’s crucial transit corridors were left in the lurch on Sunday morning after auto services along the Baghajatin–Ranikuthi route were abruptly suspended following an argument over unauthorised autos trying to ply the route. However, after the Garia Traffic Guard intervened, most of the autos resumed services by evening, cops…
