A 24-year-old man was arrested by the Special Task Force in Burdwan. KOLKATA: A 24-year-old man suspected of being a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) operative was arrested by the state’s Special Task Force (STF) from a gym inside a gated township in Burdwan on Thursday night, with investigators alleging he had been tracking CM Suvendu Adhikari’s movements….
Kolkata: Around 1.8 lakh enumerators led by 30,000 supervisors will hit the streets and cover around 3.1 crore establishments after the first phase of Census 2027, which is set to begin from Saturday with an online self-enumeration process.On Saturday, Bengal Governor R N Ravi and chief minister Suvendu Adhikari will be the first two residents…
Traders have been told to temporarily shift from the (top) old market to the makeshift market built at the Kolkata Mounted Police paddock. photo by Sayantan Chakraborty Traders have been told to temporarily shift from the (top) old market to the makeshift market built at the Kolkata Mounted Police paddock. photo by Sayantan Chakraborty Traders…
Cops escort Taslima Nasrin out of Kolkata airport. Photo by Indranil Das Kolkata: The city police on Friday threw a tight security ring around Bangladesh-born writer Taslima Nasrin following her arrival in Kolkata after 19 years.Acknowledging the persistent threat perception surrounding the author, the Special Branch (SB) of Kolkata Police has completed a detailed security…
Hamim Mondal’s ancestral village in Monteswar Monteswar: Hamim Mondal’s ancestral village in Monteswar, barely an hour’s drive from where he was arrested, learnt that the 24-year-old was a suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) operative at 10 am on Friday. The family has been in the rice trade for several generations.Speaking to reporters in Dirghanagar village, Mondal’s elderly…
The Burdwan complex where the suspect had been living with his family The apartment in the Burdwan complex where the suspect had been living with his family The Burdwan complex where the suspect had been living with his family The apartment in the Burdwan complex where the suspect had been living with his family The…
Kolkata: Even as the ministry of housing and urban affairs (MoHUA) on Friday cited the ‘Force Majeure’ clause due to the war in Iran to grant a four-month extension to real estate projects across the country, KMC on Friday said the stop-work on high-rise projects being audited would continue, refusing any relief to developers who…
A Nature Study Park is inaugurated at IIEST Kolkata: A 4.4-acre nature study park, complete with nature trails, biodiversity zones, a butterfly garden, a meditation space, an open-air gym and an amphitheatre, was inaugurated on the campus of IIEST, Shibpur, on Friday.The project is a collaborative environmental & social responsibility (ESR) initiative, developed by Eden…
Kolkata: Cops have registered a criminal case and launched a multi-pronged probe after a 75-year-old retired businessman from Bhowanipore was cheated out of Rs 10,22,353 by a cyber-fraud syndicate impersonating officials from the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI). According to the complaint, the accused entered into a criminal conspiracy on June 17….
Kolkata: Cops have started a probe after two bike-borne miscreants snatched a purse from a 34-year-old woman on Strand Road near the Adi Bhootnath Mandir early on Thursday morning.According to police, the incident took place around 4.15 am on July 30, when Divya Mohta, a resident of Strand Road, was walking along the stretch when…
