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- India
Crisis continues in Bengal unit of BJP, legal head to be shunted out
Kolkata: The crisis within the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) continues with the top leadership ordering removal of its legal head forthwith. This move comes after the IT…
- Middle East
Kolkata firm supplies power transformers for FIFA world cup in Qatar
Kolkata: Around 3,000 transformers manufactured by a Kolkata-based company will help secure power distribution in stadia and related infrastructure during the upcoming football world cup in Qatar. BMC Electroplast, an MSME unit,…
- Kolkata
West Bengal gets ready to brace cyclone ‘Sitrang’, govt to take all precautionary measures
Kolkata: The West Bengal government has taken all precautionary measures, including evacuation of people and supply of relief materials to shelters, to deal with possible devastation under the impact of cyclone ‘Sitrang’, a…
- Kolkata
Unlicensed outlets selling biryani with spices reducing male sex drive shut in Bengal
Kolkata: Former North Bengal development minister Rabindra Nath Ghosh, who is currently the chairman of Trinamool Congress-run Cooch Behar municipality, has directed the closure of two unlicensed outlets selling biryani allegedly using spices…
- India
Tripura: President Murmu flags off first Kolkata-Agartala express train
Agartala: President Droupadi Murmu and Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha flagged off the railway extension of the Guwahati-Kolkata-Guwahati train up to Agartala from Agartala Railway Station on Thursday. President Murmu and CM…
- Kolkata
Three go missing in Ganga in Kolkata
Kolkata: Three persons drowned in the River Ganga near the Nimtala Crematorium in North Kolkata where they had gone after performing last rites of one of their relatives. The incident happened late…
- India
Parallel affair with mother & daughter costs Kolkata man his life
Kolkata: A parallel affair with a girl as well her mother resulted in a brutal murder of a 21-year-old man, whose body was recovered from Magrahat in South 24 Parganas district, police…
- India
Cough syrup samples collected, sent for checking: Haryana Health Minister
Chandigarh: After a WHO product alert, authorities in Haryana have taken samples of cough syrup from Sonepat-based factory of Maiden Pharmaceuticals, and sent to the Central Drug lLboratory in Kolkata for analysis,…
- India
Attack on Marxist book stall: Trinamool Congress faces wrath of civil society
Kolkata: West Bengal government and ruling Trinamool Congress on Tuesday came under criticism from intellectuals and the civil society following an attack on CPI(M)’s Marxist literature stall and the consequent arrest of…
- Telangana
Gandhi’s ideology can never be denigrated, says KTR
Hyderabad: Telangana IT minister KT Rama Rao, on Monday, reacted to the Hindu Mahasabha’s depiction of Asura as Mahatma Gandhi in Durga’s idol in Kolkata which drew criticism from political parties and…
- India
Gandhi look-alike as Asura at Kolkata puja pandal stokes controversy
Kolkata: A Durga idol in Kolkata in which the ‘Mahisasura’ was replaced by a crudely-crafted Mahatma Gandhi-look alike created controversy on the birth anniversary of the father of the nation. Akhil Bharatiya…