Kolkata: A 67-year-old Salt Lake resident was allegedly duped of Rs 9.6 lakh in an online banking fraud after being tricked into sharing his credentials on the pretext of a KYC update, police said on Thursday.The complainant, a resident of Block-HB in Sector III, reported that the incident began on April 27 around 3 pm…
Kolkata: Four 15-year-old schoolgirls, who fled from home on April 21, have been rescued from Old Delhi Railway Station by a special team from the Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate. Cops said they left in a bid to travel to South Korea to attend a concert by global K-pop group BTS.The class 9 students from Lake Town…
Kolkata: Two separate burglary cases were reported in Lake Town on May 1, raising concerns over a possible pattern of targeted break-ins in residential pockets during temporary absences of occupants, police said.In the first incident, a complaint lodged by Shanta Jana, a resident of Block A, Lake Town, told police that her house was looted…
Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Saturday trashed exit poll results, saying they were conducted to “manipulate the stock market,” and told party colleagues — including counting agents — in a virtual address that Trinamool “is winning and winning by 200-plus seats.“Banerjee urged counting agents not to leave their tables even for a minute without a…
Kolkata/Falta: On Monday, Bengal’s electoral fate will be decided on the basis of 293 seats as the Election Commission on Saturday countermanded the elections held in Falta assembly constituency citing “electoral offences and subversion of the democratic process during polling in a large number of polling stations”. A repoll has been ordered on May 21,…
Kolkata: Bengal leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Friday night called on all political parties to maintain peace ahead of the May 4 counting, urging them to accept the people’s mandate and avoid a repeat of the post-poll violence that followed the 2021 elections.“Let there be peace in Bengal. The election is over and every…
Kolkata: Booth-level officers finally got a breather from their “out of syllabus” work, after slogging for 176 days ever since the SIR exercise was rolled out. But BLOs pointed out that they were yet to receive their ‘release order’ from the EC though their assignments ended with the conclusion of the two-phase Assembly elections. “Now…
Kolkata: Lax security and blacked out CCTV footage at EVM strongrooms led to multiple complaints by both Trinamool and BJP across Bengal on Saturday. Tension flared at the Barasat Government College on Saturday morning after the CCTV monitoring display reportedly remained non-functional for 17 minutes. According to the complaint, CCTV monitors at the strongroom —…
Kolkata: Within hours of the Supreme Court hearing, the EC on Saturday deployed 165 additional counting observers across Bengal, just 48 hours before the vote counting on Monday. All these officers, who will be stationed at strongrooms with multiple counting halls, are central govt officers. Also, in a first, the EC has deputed 77 police…
Kolkata: At the Nandan screening of the restored ‘Pratidwandi’, organised by the Society for the Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives to mark the legend’s 105th birth anniversary, a strand of conversation between Sandip Ray, Tinnu Anand and Dhritiman Chaterji centred on Ray’s remarkable way with non-actors. Anand, who assisted him on five films, including ‘Pratidwandi’,…
