Kolkata:The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of the Bengal govt arrested three laboratory technicians attached to Panskura Super Specialty Hospital for their involvement in a well-entrenched, illegal blood sales racket operating directly out of the facility’s blood bank.The law enforcement action follows the arrest of a middleman caught selling blood units illegally to desperate patients and their…
A huge crater covering a large part of a road in Garden Reach Kolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday entrusted all govt agencies and departments concerned with the task of repairing battered roads in the port area in Garden Reach and Taratala at the earliest.The CM had earlier set a deadline of Oct 10…
Cops want to be ready with data before the Durga Puja Coordination meet set up by chief minister Suvendu Adhikari for Sept 7 Kolkata: The Kolkata Traffic Police have sent SOS letters to different agencies like KMC, PWD and KMDA for infrastructure development before the onset of the festive season. It has listed a total…
Cops in mufti at JU on Tuesday Kolkata: Another member of the inquiry committee set up by Jadavpur University to probe last Thursday’s campus violence has expressed his unwillingness to be part of the investigation. Arunasis Goswami, vice-chancellor of Baba Saheb Ambedkar Education University, has stepped down citing ongoing admission and convocation preparations at his…
CM Suvendu Adhikari with Sita Mullick on Tuesday Kolkata: “The chief minister has promised me a roof over my head,” Sita Mullick, a 60-year-old Free School Street pavement dweller, said on Tuesday morning after meeting CM Suvendu Adhikari at a BJP office in Salt Lake.Mullick had unwittingly triggered a political row on Saturday following a…
Kolkata: The ‘Biswa Bangla’ imprint is set to disappear from yet another prominent public landscape in Bengal, with a state govt panel proposing to rechristen Biswa Bangla Sarani as Shri Krishna Chaitanya Avenue as part of an ongoing exercise to change the names of institutions and infrastructure associated with the erstwhile Trinamool regime.The 33.5km thoroughfare…
Household kitchen budgets have gone haywire as prices of one essential after another climb steadily Kolkata: After sugar and onions, vegetables are beginning to squeeze household budgets, with prices of several everyday kitchen staples rising by 50% to 100% in just 10 days as incessant rain inundates farmland, damages crops and disrupts supply to city…
Officers monitor stock registers, verify retail markups and evaluate the supply of essential kitchen commodities at a Bidhannagar market Kolkata: Following directives from chief minister Suvendu Adhikari to curb artificial price inflation, joint teams of Kolkata and Bengal Police Enforcement Branch (EB) launched inspections across major wholesale and retail markets on Tuesday.The operations targeted key…
Traders at Maidan Market say they will take some time to pack their wares and shift A hawker, whose name is not registered with Metro, packs his goods, ready to move Traders at Maidan Market say they will take some time to pack their wares and shift A hawker, whose name is not registered with…
Cops at JU on Tuesday Police personnel at JU on Tuesday for investigation — TOI Kolkata: The Kolkata Police has completed collection of all CCTV footage from the four entry gates of Jadavpur University. A special team has now begun to compare the footage from the entry and exit points with those collected from the…
