A graffiti at JU that ABVP wants removed Kolkata: Students at Jadavpur University on Sunday called for the campus walls to be reclaimed in response to a drive by the authorities to whitewash “offensive” graffiti on the campus, launched the day before following an ultimatum from CM Suvendu Adhikari.The call followed a demand by Akhil…
CCTV footage from the hotel reportedly shows a group of men entering the premises and creating a ruckus Kolkata: A group of assailants allegedly vandalised a bar-cum-hotel and assaulted its manager, employees and guests near the junction of Belgharia Expressway and Kalyani Expressway in Dum Dum on Sunday.The hotel authorities alleged that the attack was…
Four individuals, including a woman, were arrested on Thursday afternoon after allegedly assaulting, verbally abusing, and unlawfully confining a police officer and his associate during an investigation into an illegal construction site in Bhowanipore Kolkata: Four individuals, including a woman, were arrested on Thursday afternoon after allegedly assaulting, verbally abusing, and unlawfully confining a police…
Kolkata: A group of BJP workers were allegedly assaulted and robbed of Rs 50,000 by an armed gang of nearly 20 miscreants in the Tiljala area late on Wednesday.The incident took place around 11 pm near premises 168 on Tiljala Road, as the victims were returning home from their local party office. According to a…
Kolkata: The glacier-collapse flood on the Nepal-Tibet border has put the spotlight back on a threat that is particularly relevant to Darjeeling and the wider Eastern Himalayas: an earthquake, rock or ice avalanche, extreme rain or the sudden failure of a glacial lake can set off a chain of landslides and flash floods capable of…
WBJEEB rolls back previous notice on decentralised counselling Kolkata: The West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board (WBJEEB) has rolled back its decentralised counselling notification, allowing all rank-holders, including those who participated in the e-counselling process, to participate in the decentralised admission as well.A notice by the WBJEEB registrar read, “The undersigned is directed to inform…
Kolkata: The Jadavpur University inquiry commission that has been formed to probe the Aug 19 and Aug 20 clashes and vandalism has issued a public notice inviting statements along with video footage and photographs from anyone who has the knowledge of the incidents within 10 days. The documents need to be submitted to Pranab Kumar…
Interview JU VC Chiranjib Bhattacharjee JU VC Chiranjib Bhattacharjee fielded a few questions from TOI on recent campus developmentsQ Which graffiti did the university remove?We received multiple complaints regarding certain graffiti, which we reviewed and discussed internally. The artwork that was highly objectionable, and for which we received complaints from both inside and outside the…
NRS Medical College and Hospital NRS Hospital Lift…….Subhojyoti Kanjilal Kolkata: Controversy has erupted at NRS Medical College and Hospital after a patient alleged that his appendix was removed while he was admitted for gallbladder stone removal surgery. The patient said he has already submitted a complaint to the hospital authorities and has now been admitted…
The uprooted statue of former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru Durgapur: A political controversy erupted in West Burdwan’s Durgapur after a statue of former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was allegedly uprooted and dumped in a nearby jungle.A Zone Harshavardhan area in West Burdwan districtThe incident, which took place on Aug 27 at Durgapur A Zone’s Harshavardhan…
