Agartala: Leader of the opposition and CPM Tripura state secretary Jitendra Chaudhury on Sunday announced that his party would launch statewide agitations, alleging deteriorating law and order, the condition of national highways, unemployment and price rise.Announcing the party’s programme, Chaudhury said farmers’ and labour organisations would organise their first protest through “Jail Bharo” march in…
14 vandals arrested and produced to Bankshal Court… Sukhomoy Sen Kolkata: The anti-gang law, which allows for a pre-trial auction of properties seized from persons suspected of rioting and vandalism, faced its first legal challenge on Sunday. Following the arrest of 14 individuals, police invoked sections 9 and 15A of The West Bengal Maintenance of…
Law student Debabrata Adhikari during the protest on Friday Debabrata Adhikari, member of Calcutta Cockroach Movement Kolkata: The cockroach controversy pinched an actor, a life science student, a law student and a businessman to come together as ‘fellow cockroaches’ to protest against the NEET exam paper leak and seek resignation of Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan.The…
Family memmbers of the 14 vandals produced to the Bankshal Court inconnection CPJ Student Protest chaos… Sukhomoy Sen Kolkata: There is no place for vandalism and attack on cops and journalists, said the kin of the arrested who gathered at the Bankshall Court on Sunday and insisted that they will stop providing any support to…
Dwaipayan.GhoshKOLKATA: The Bidhannagar Police has registered a case of abetment to suicide against a Baguiati resident, following the death of his wife in Krishnapur Purbapara on Wednesday.Victim’s daughter, Baishaki Ghosh of Nimta, has lodged the complaint, alleging domestic violence over the years.The deceased, Bharati Ghosh, was found hanging inside a locked room by her daughter.After…
Howrah: A 36-year-old pharmacist, Hasanur Mir, who was working at a private hospital in Andul, was murdered on Sunday in the Bankra Rasikpur area under Domjur police station of Howrah City Police.His brothers, Najimul Mir, 32, and Najrul Mir, 27, sustained critical wounds in a knife attack. They are undergoing treatment at Howrah District Hospital….
Kolkata: NRS Medical College has taken the lead in introducing CAR T-Cell (Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell) therapy, an advanced form of cancer treatment, among govt hospitals in eastern India. This therapy is meant for specific blood cancers that have either relapsed or are not responding to standard chemotherapy. In fact the haematology unit at the…
Kolkata: The state govt has planned to develop the Sundarbans as the second global eco-adventure and wellness tourism destination after Darjeeling, said tourism minister Shankar Ghosh.He made the announcement at an event on the occasion of World Mangrove Day.The minister said it had been mentioned in the state Budget that Darjeeling would come under the…
A potholed stretch of VIP Road Kolkata: Spells of rain have damaged stretches of city roads so much that Kolkata Traffic Police has asked civic agencies — especially Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and the state PWD — to repair them. Cops have sent an initial list of battered stretches to KMC. Cops said these stretches…
Satellite image of the cloud band Kolkata: A massive 7,000 km-10,000-km-long ‘rain belt’ stretching from northern India across the Himalayas, China and into South Korea — which has contributed to the current rainy spell in Kolkata and east India — is about to get fragmented into smaller low-pressure zones by July 31. Also called a…
