Kolkata: A ‘Singham’ versus ‘Pushpa’ rivalry played out at Falta, around 40km from Kolkata, on Tuesday.On Monday, IPS officer and DIG Ajay Pal Sharma — an ‘encounter specialist’ popularly known as ‘Singham’ on his home turf in UP, visited the house of Falta’s Trinamool candidate Jahangir Khan and warned his kin “to be cautious”. A…

Kolkata: Fending off barbs over the RG Kar incident, alleged infiltration, and his “outsider” status raised by the BJP, current MLA and deputy mayor Atin Ghosh appears confident of retaining the Cossipore-Belgachhia constituency for a second term. While Ghosh is confident of a record-margin win, his primary opponent, BJP’s Ritesh Tiwari, has centred his campaign…