KMC probes AI hawker ‘notice’ | Kolkata News

Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has decided to probe an AI-generated eviction notice that was circulated among traders in the New Market area. The purported notice asked for all hawker stalls, dalas and encroachments near the Metro Esplanade station gate No. 6 and around the Grand Hotel to be vacated within a month, following which…

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Transport operators in Bengal seek urgent state support | Kolkata News

Kolkata: Concerns of transporters over rising operational uncertainties and fuel costs have triggered the private operators to urgent call for state intervention to “revive the transport sector” following the recent political transition in Bengal.The Joint Forum of Transport Operators (JFTO), an umbrella body representing five major transport associations, has formally approached chief minister Suvendu Adhikari,…

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Bengal TMC MP Sougata Roy faces protest outside police station; eggs thrown at his car | Kolkata News

KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress MP Sougata Roy on Thursday faced protests outside a police station in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, with demonstrators shouting “thief” at him and hurling eggs at his vehicle.The 78-year-old parliamentarian had gone to the Nimta police station to submit a deputation alleging attacks on TMC councillors in several parts of…

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Santanu Sen: ‘People of Bengal have rejected us’: Former Rajya Sabha MP Dr Santanu Sen resigns as TMC national spokesperson | Kolkata News

Former Rajya Sabha MP Shantanu Sen (File Photo) KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and former Rajya Sabha MP Dr Santanu Sen has resigned from his post as the party’s national spokesperson on Thursday, according to news agency ANI.In his resignation letter addressed to party chief Mamata Banerjee, Sen said he could no longer continue defending…

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Anik Dutta Suicide: Bengali filmmaker Anik Dutta falls from roof, dies; letter addressed to Sweden-based daughter indicates suicide | Kolkata News

Bengali filmmaker Anik Dutta KOLKATA: Award-winning director Anik Dutta, 66, the man behind a new genre of political satire in Bengali cinema, died after falling from the roof of a six-storey residential building at Hindustan Park near Gariahat on Wednesday. He was taken to anearby private hospital around 1.15pm but declared dead on arrival.Police said…

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Mamata Banerjee lambasts rebels with ‘Girgiti’ poem after Bengal poll rout | Kolkata News

Facing internal dissent after a poll setback, Mamata Banerjee penned a poem, ‘Girgiti (Chameleon),’ targeting rebel leaders. KOLKATA: As TMC grapples with a deepening internal crisis following the party’s crushing poll setback, former chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday appeared to hit back at dissenters within the organisation through a sharply worded poem titled “Girgiti…

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