Bengal: West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) president Partha Karmakar and secretary Priyadarshini Mullick have been allowed to remain in office until the higher secondary examination results are announced, making them the only exception to Bengal govt’s crackdown on post-retirement reappointments of bureaucrats and senior officials. On Tuesday, state govt terminated 243 retired…
This week asks for patience, Cancer, the steady kind that doesn’t seek applause. Early days are packed with hard work, and you may feel tense and restless, as if you’re carrying two bags in one hand. Still, you won’t be alone. Support from a younger brother or sister lifts your confidence, and their advice or…
On a rainy May day in 1950, Danish peat cutters Viggo and Emil Hojgaard unearthed a remarkably preserved Iron Age man in Bjældskovdal Bog. (Image Credits: Sven Rosborn, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) It was a rainy day on May 6, 1950, for Viggo and Emil Hojgaard. They were deep inside the Danish Bjældskovdal Bog,…
Kolkata: East Midnapore zilla parishad president Uttam Barik resigned on Friday, coinciding with the arrest of a Trinamool zilla parishad office-bearer by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with election-related violence.Barik travelled to Midnapore and submitted his resignation to the office of the divisional commissioner. Having lost the recent assembly election, Barik cited the…
Jalandhar: Commissionerate police on Sunday arrested four persons, including the self-styled national president of Shri Ram Bhakt Sena, on charges of allegedly extorting Rs 60,000 from a Muslim family by threatening to implicate them in a cow slaughter case.Police said the family had purchased meat of a dead buffalo from Buta Mandi, a raw hide…
The insect farming industry has taken off due to the global need for sustainable protein, resulting in about 370 billion crickets being raised every year. But there’s a new twist. A study in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B questions the old belief that crickets are just simple creatures reacting to stimuli like…
Kolkata: Actor and former Trinamool MLA Soham Chakraborty was on Friday booked in a fresh fraud case after a complaint was lodged at Charu Market Police Station, alleging he and his production company cheated an investor of Rs 1 crore in connection with a 2023 film that starred him and Jadavpur MP Saayoni Ghosh.The case…
JAIPUR: At least seven people were burnt alive and several others injured after a fire broke out following a blast at an alleged illegal fireworks godown in Jaipur’s Khoh Nagoriyan area on Tuesday, officials said.The fire erupted in a small house in Ayesha Nagar Talai colony in Khoh Nagorian, where firecrackers were allegedly being stored,…
Kolkata: Former Trinamool MLA Saokat Molla was remanded in NIA custody for 14 days on Saturday, a day after he was arrested from Kamalgazi in connection with a pre-poll blast case in Bhangar that claimed one life.Molla was produced before city sessions court chief judge Sudipta Kumar De amid tight security after being taken from…
CR had announced that it will hike rates of A la carte eatables such as vada, samosas, bread pakoda, usal/ragda and pav, Misal pav etc at the stalls from June 1 Mumbai: In what has come as a relief to several train commuters, the revision of rates of food at the eatery stalls on platforms…
