Howrah: A 65-year-old retired schoolteacher was burnt to death and another person suffered 60% burns after a fire broke out at Uddalok residential complex in Mourigram, Howrah, around 1 pm on Wednesday. Six others, who suffered suffocation and minor burns, were treated at Howrah District Hospital and discharged.Police identified the deceased as Gopa Mukherjee, who…
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla (file photo) Kolkata/New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has issued notices to 20 rebel Trinamool MPs who merged with Tripura-based Nationalist Citizens Party of India, seeking their response within seven days to Abhishek Banerjee’s disqualification petition under the Constitution’s anti-defection law.The notices were issued on Tuesday, the same day…
Dutta claimed the materials were given to him in 2022 when he was an independent councillor and said he had asked civic officials to collect them after resigning on July 15 Kolkata: Former Gobardanga municipality chairman Subhash Dutta was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly storing municipal relief materials at his residence. Police reportedly recovered 30…
Bengal minister for urban development and municipal affairs Agnimitra Paul (file picture) Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari has implemented 43% of BJP’s pre-poll promises, said Bengal minister for urban development and municipal affairs Agnimitra Paul on Wednesday. She was speaking on the sidelines of Credai Kolkata-organised ‘Techcon 2026’.Addressing criticism from opposition parties that the Bengal govt’s…
Kolkata: Action would be taken against former CM Mamata Banerjee if she failed to return 19 books issued to her from the assembly library, warned Bengal mass education extension and library services minister Gouri Sankar Ghosh on Tuesday.The books borrowed by Banerjee are 18 volumes of Rabindra Rachanabali and a copy of Tagore’s Sanchayita. According…
A worker plucks tea leaves Kolkata: The Indian Tea Association (ITA) has submitted white papers to the state govt, seeking its intervention for the revival of Darjeeling and Dooars tea.The submitted white papers examined the structural, financial, climatic, labour and market-related challenges the two iconic tea-growing regions are facing and offered a roadmap of policy…
A professor questioned student dance performances at NIT Durgapur’s induction program. KOLKATA: A video from a students’ induction programme at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Durgapur has sparked a debate over campus decorum after a professor reportedly interrupted a student dance performance on various Bollywood songs.The incident took place on the second day of…
The building houses many offices, godowns and residential units .Photo by Indranil Das Kolkata: For Meena Nandwani, the fire at Free School Street destroyed little inside her first-floor home. Yet, a week after the blaze, she remains displaced, unable to return to the flat she has lived in because the entire building has been sealed…
Kolkata: Back home with relatives in coffins, Bangladeshi families are grappling with the loss a week after a fire ripped through Shikha Inn at Free School Street, leaving nine people dead. The bereaved families are now contemplating returning to the city on a hunt for the victims’ belongings, which remain “untraceable”. However, they are fretting…
Kolkata: Doctor organisations have protested against the health department order that bars govt doctors from private practice for 72 hours of their ‘admission day’ in the govt health facility they are attached to.‘Admission day’ is when a faculty member or a doctor attends OPD, admits patients and checks those patients in the ward post their…
