KOLKATA: A centralised, technology-enabled platform, the Scribe Bank, connecting students with visual impairment and other disabilities to verified volunteer scribes, covering end-to-end coordination from registration and scribe matching to examination-day support, was launched on Friday with an aim to address the “structural gap” so that no visually impaired students are turned away from examination for…

Srishti LakhotiaKolkata: Delay in a divorce case caused by miscellaneous petitions filed by the wife cannot be used as a ground to seek enhanced financial relief, Calcutta High Court held on Thursday, while refusing to raise a woman’s maintenance by Rs 6,000 over the Rs 15,000 already granted in a matrimonial dispute pending since 2014.Justice…

KOLKATA: Firhad Hakim took up charge as mayor in 2018 amid a severe water crisis in several parts of the city, particularly in the Tollygunge-Jadavpur belt and parts of Behala and neighbourhoods off EM Bypass.The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) in 2018 had set a target of reducing dependence on groundwater for the residents of Tollygunge-Jadavpur…