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Air Arabia Abu Dhabi marks its first flight to Kolkata
Abu Dhabi: United Arab Emirates’s (UAE) low-cost carrier Air Arabia Abu Dhabi, on Wednesday marked the inauguration of its first flight to Kolkata city in West Bengal, the Emirates News Agency (WAM)…
- India
Adenovirus alarm: Four more child deaths reported from Kolkata
Kolkata: Four more deaths of children admitted with adenovirus-related symptoms have been reported from a Kolkata hospital since Tuesday evening. Of the four at the B.C. Roy Children’s Hospital, sources said, two…
- Kolkata
Communal clashes in Kolkata: NIA files supplementary charge sheet
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a supplementary charge sheet in connection with alleged communal clashes in the Ekbalpore-Mominpur area of Kolkata in October last year, officials said. The…
- Kolkata
Recruitment scam: WBSSC publishes list of 3,478 Group C staff with manipulated marks
Kolkata: The West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) on Monday published on its website a list of 3,478 candidates who reportedly have qualified for appointment as non-teaching staff in different state-run schools…
- India
Woman passenger caught smoking on Kolkata-Bengaluru flight, arrested
Bengaluru: A 24-year-old woman passenger has been arrested after she was found smoking in a lavatory of a Kolkata-Bengaluru flight, officials said. The incident took place on an Indigo flight on March…
- India
Police bust fake call centre near Kolkata, seize Rs 4 cr cash
Kolkata: Following a surprise raid by the officers of the Bidhannagar Police Commiserate on Wednesday evening, unaccounted cash worth around Rs 4 crore was seized from a fake call centre in the…
- India
Man booked for smoking in Air India Kolkata-Delhi flight
New Delhi: A case has been registered against a passenger on an Air India Kolkata-Delhi flight for allegedly smoking inside the lavatory of the plane, official sources said on Monday. The incident…
- India
Adenovirus alarm: 4 more child deaths reported from Kolkata
Kolkata: The adenovirus menace in West Bengal seems to be assuming alarming proportions as deaths of four more children, admitted in a Kolkata hospital with its symptoms, were reported in the last…
- India
Bengal: TMC, BJP, Left-Cong to fight it out in Sagardighi by-poll
Kolkata: The stage is set for a three-cornered contest in the by-poll to the Sagardighi assembly constituency in Murshidabad district on Monday, as the ruling TMC, opposition BJP, and the Congress-Left alliance…
- India
Jail superintendent fined for giving special treatment to coal scam accused
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday imposed a financial penalty on the Superintendent of Presidency Special Correctional Home in south Kolkata for giving special treatment to Vikas Mishra, one of the…
- Middle East
Air Arabia Abu Dhabi launches new flight to Kolkata
Abu Dhabi: United Arab Emirates’s (UAE) low-cost carrier Air Arabia Abu Dhabi announced the launch of a new service to Kolkata city in West Bengal. The airline will commence operations on Wednesday,…
- India
59 pc of India’s land mass prone to earthquakes
Kolkata: After massive earthquakes battered parts of Turkey and Syria, almost all seismic zones are in alert mode, including in India, with a report warning that as much as 59% of the…
- Kolkata
Coal scam: Recovery amount by ED rises to Rs 1.25 cr
Kolkata: With the Enforcement Directorate (ED) continuing with its search operation till late on Wednesday evening in connection with the multi-crore coal smuggling case in West Bengal, the cash recovery amount by…
- India
Forceful removal of innerwear of minor girl equivalent to rape: Calcutta HC
Kolkata: Forceful removal of the innerwear of a minor girl is equivalent to rape even if rape, as per medical terms, has not been done by the accused or convict, the Calcutta…
- India
Land for power lines: HC asks rights body to serve PIL copy to Adani firm
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday asked APDR to serve a copy of its public interest litigation (PIL) to Adani Power Ltd, where the rights body alleged that power transmission towers…
