Kolkata: A man, Dilip Mondal, was arrested for allegedly running an illegal gas refilling and storage racket in South 24 Parganas’ Uttarbhag on Sunday. Cops have seized 177 LPG cylinders from him.Acting on a tip-off, officers of the district enforcement branch, along with Baruipur police, conducted a raid in the Kamra area along the Champahati-Uttarbhag…
Kolkata: A senior doctor attached to a prominent south Kolkata hospital was defrauded of nearly Rs 7.8 lakh in a banking scam. He alleged that several colleagues have been defrauded too, the total amounting close to Rs 14 lakh.According to the FIR, the crooks apparently blocked the victim’s mobile banking alerts before executing the crime….
Kolkata: The body of a 40-year-old man, Surajit Sardar, was found near a pond in Sonarpur’s Vidyadharpur Lalpol Chowdhury Bagan area on Sunday morning. His family members alleged that he was murdered.According to cops, Sardar was living with a transgender person, Bijoy alias Pinki, for the past several months. Locals said the couple went to…
Kolkata: Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee and national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday met the party’s zilla parishad members at Kalighat and reiterated their commitment towards “protecting Bengal and ensuring a better tomorrow”.District presidents have been asked to send written reports to Abhishek and former minister Chandrima Bhattacharya on possible reasons behind the defeat, including…
Asansol: The Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate has arrested 26 people in connection with brick-batting and vandalism at the Jahangiri Mohalla police outpost. Seven of the accused were remanded to police custody after being produced in court on Sunday, while 19 others were sent to judicial custody, reports Mohammad Asif.“Those who were involved in vandalising the…
Kolkata: Former CM Mamata Banerjee said on Sunday that “bulldozers cannot become the language of governance” in her first public statement after Trinamool’s election defeat.“Bulldozers cannot become the language of governance in a state built on culture, compassion and resistance to oppression. A govt that demolishes first and listens later has forgotten the very spirit…
Kolkata: Bengal food minister and Bongaon North MLA Ashok Kirtania visited the India-Bangladesh border area at Chhoygharia near Petrapole on Sunday to speak with residents over land acquisition for border fencing, appealing to landowners to cooperate in the interest of national security.Senior district administration officials and BSF personnel have already begun ground assessments in border…
Howrah: Villagers vandalised the house of a Trinamool panchayat chief in Howrah’s Amta on Sunday, accusing her and her husband of siphoning off funds from multiple govt schemes for months. Around 200 villagers, armed with sticks, stormed the residence of Anjali Dolui, damaging property and setting fire to furniture, clothes and documents.Villagers Nazneen Begum and…
Nandigram: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday entrusted five BJP MLAs with the task of retaining Nandigram in the upcoming bypolls.Adhikari, a three-time MLA from Nandigram, made his first visit to the constituency after resigning from the assembly seat and opting to retain Bhowanipore.He also directed senior BJP netas to launch an aggressive campaign for the…
Kolkata: A resident of Shyampukur has been arrested for allegedly molesting two women at Bidhannagar station on Saturday night. According to the complaint of a 24-year-old woman, who was walking along platform 3, the man allegedly approached her, behaved inappropriately and molested her. Police said another woman, aged 23 and a resident of Baguiati, was…
