Jalpaiguri: A commander-level flag meeting between the Border Security Force (BSF) and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) was held at Teen Bigha on Saturday to address a dispute over border fencing in Mekhliganj block of Cooch Behar. The meeting followed rising tension from Friday after the BSF began demarcating land along an unfenced stretch of the…
Kolkata: TMC Barasat MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar resigned from the post of the party’s Barasat organisational district president on Sunday. In a letter addressed to state party president Subrata Bakshi, she stated that she was stepping down taking moral responsibility for the party’s defeat in Barasat. While doing so, she attacked political consultancy agency I-PAC…
Kolkata: City’s largest Eid-uz-Zuha congregation will shift from its traditional Red Road venue to the Brigade Parade Grounds this year. It was decided following a series of meetings between Kolkata Police and the organisers over crowd management and traffic arrangements that culminated on Sunday.Police had earlier asked members of the Calcutta Khilafat Committee to explore…
Kolkata: MMiC and ward 81 councillor in KMC Baiswanor Chattopadhyay has been summoned by the New Market Police Station in connection with a protest held against the locking of the historic KMC Council Chamber. Sources claimed the incident happened on Friday, when there was uproar among Trinamool councillors after they found the chamber locked. Trinamool…
Kolkata: City quizzers were in for an invigorating session at the 56th Neil O’Brien’s DI Open Quiz 2026 at the Dalhousie Institute on Saturday.The second oldest quiz in the country held in the memory of legendary quiz master Neil O’Brien saw a mind boggling 112 teams registering for the written preliminary round, breaking last year’s…
Kolkata: More than 1.2 lakh candidates are set to appear for the West Bengal Joint Entrance examination across 267 centres on Sunday. The exam opens doors for admission into engineering, technology, pharmacy and architecture courses across various universities and colleges in Bengal. The examination will be conducted in two shifts. The Mathematics paper is scheduled…
Kolkata: A 40-year-old woman, Sahazadi Khatoon, from Taltala underwent a six-hour surgery at NRS Medical College after doctors removed an abdominal tumour the size of a beachball. A biopsy revealed the mass as Myxoid Liposarcoma, a rare malignant cancer. She returned home from the hospital on Saturday.Doctors said the sheer size of the lesion made…
Kolkata: The state govt has initiated the process of implementing the Centre’s PM Vishwakarma Yojana in Bengal, aimed at improving the socio-economic condition of traditional artisans and craftspeople. The move comes days after chief minister Suvendu Adhikari alleged that the previous Trinamool Congress govt had “deliberately” prevented the implementation of the scheme in the state,…
KOLKATA: In a late-night operation that marked another visible change in the city, the giant football-themed installation outside the Salt Lake Stadium — a sculpture conceptualised by former chief minister Mamata Banerjee — was partially dismantled between Saturday midnight and the morning after, days after the new state govt announced its decision to remove the…
Kolkata: Actor Swastika Mukherjee appeared at the Gariahat Police Station on Saturday and was questioned for nearly an hour, days after an FIR was registered against her and actor Parambrata Chattopadhyay over an alleged post-poll violence-related social media post and comment, dating back to 2021.Police questioned Mukherjee over allegations that she supported a social media…
