Parts of Kolkata saw scattered rain on Wednesday — Photo by Indranil Das Kolkata: While parts of the city got scattered rain on Wednesday the Met office has alerted enhanced rain in the weekend. A system brewing over the Bay of Bengal is likely to add to the city’s rain count which is already on…
West Bengal health department seeks reports from Malda Medical College Hospital (Representative image) MALDA: The West Bengal health department has sought a detailed report from Malda Medical College and Hospital (MMCH) after 60 children died at the facility during the first three weeks of August, including 10 deaths reported in a single day in the…
The notice stated that the edit option would be live for 15 days after sixth semester’s results are out Kolkata: Calcutta University is set to provide a final chance for sixth-semester students to reconsider whether they wish to exit after the sixth semester or continue to complete the four-year programme. The notice stated that the…
One kidney was allocated to Fortis Hospital, Anandapur for a 39-year old woman and the second went to Command Hospital, Kolkata for a 30-year-old woman Kolkata: The lungs of a 58-year-old brain dead man from Kalyani will come to the rescue of a 61-year-old woman in Gurugram while his two kidneys will give a fresh…
Durga Puja diktat from VHP Kolkata: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has denounced an oft-repeated quote of former CM Mamata Banerjee, “religion belongs to individuals, but festivals belong to everyone” as unacceptable and called for its rephrasing to “religion belongs to individuals, and festivals belong to those individuals, too”.“Religion belongs to individuals, but festivals belong…
Kolkata: The govt has formed a 24-member advisory board, comprising two monks, a senior journalist and representatives from various fields, to guide the Kolkata Book Fair committee in organising the 50th International Kolkata Book Fair 2027, scheduled to be held from Jan 22 to Feb 3, 2027.The Publishers & Booksellers Guild will organise the fair…
The poster for the puja at Ruby crossing Kolkata: ‘Nandigram to Nabanna: Bubair Joyjatra (Bubai’s Journey of Victory)’ will be the theme for the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha Durga Puja at Ruby More, where chief minister Suvendu Adhikari’s political journey will be represented through various visuals and models. Adhikari is popularly known as ‘Bubai’ in…
The students were dancing to ‘Chikni Chameli’ at freshers’ orientation programme Durgapur: “Is this a joke? Better know the class,” said Manika Saha, NIT Durgapur’s associate dean of students’ welfare, as she stopped students dancing to the Bollywood song, ‘Chikni Chameli’ during a freshers’ orientation programme in a now-viral video.NIT Durgapur held its student induction…
CM posts helpline numbers Kolkata/Siliguri/Kalimpong: Thirty-two tourists from Kolkata, 18 women and 14 men who had set out for the Kailash Mansarovar pilgrimage from Kolkata on Aug 19 and were scheduled to cross the Nepal-Tibet border on Wednesday morning, have been reported missing after efforts to contact them failed in the wake of the Nepal…
Kolkata: Officials at IPGMER-SSKM Hospital have lodged a complaint with Bhowanipore Police Station to find out who had uploaded a prescription from the hospital’s physical medicine department that has gone viral on social media. According to the OPD prescription, a doctor has written “wife bite last night” which was causing the patient pain, swelling and…
