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Ensure stress-free environment, a week off: Govt to Kota coaching operators
Jaipur: After three students in Rajasthan’s Kota committed suicide, the administration has directed the coaching class operators to form an action plan to ensure that the students live stress free life while…
- India
Bengal panchayat polls: Suvendu Adhikari files PIL seeking central forces’ deployment
Kolkata: Leader of opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Monday filed a PIL before a division bench of the Calcutta High Court demanding the deployment of central armed forces during…
- Kolkata
ED tracking links between teachers’ recruitment & cattle smuggling scams in Bengal
Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is probing the cattle smuggling and teachers’ recruitment scams in West Bengal, has started investigating leads that can establish a clear-cut link between the two scams.…
- Kolkata
Ustad Rashid Khan’s family accuses Kolkata Police of harassment
Kolkata: Padma Shri awardee singer Ustad Rashid Khan’s wife Joyeeta Basu Khan on Thursday alleged harassment by a section of the Kolkata Police personnel after their driver refused to pay a bribe…
- India
Dominique Lapierre, French author of The City of Joy’, dies aged 91
London: Dominique Lapierre, the bestselling French author well-known in India for his ode to the city of Kolkata titled The City of Joy’, has died aged 91, his wife has confirmed. Lapierre,…
- India
Kolkata’s SSKM Hospital vandalised, staff beaten up after patient’s death
Kolkata: The state-run SSKM Hospital in Kolkata was vandalised and a few junior doctors were beaten up allegedly by the family of a man who died while undergoing treatment, police said on Monday.…
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Football magician Mohammed Salim captured hearts of people in Scotland
Who was the first Indian footballer to play for a European football club? Very few people in India will be able to answer this question correctly. He was a Kolkata-based football player…
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Cattle scam: CBI quizzes lottery winner ‘forced’ to sell ticket at throwaway price
Kolkata: The CBI sleuths, probing the lottery-angle in the multi-crore cattle smuggling scam in West Bengal, on Thursday questioned a lottery-award winner who said that he was “forced” to sell his high-amount…
- Business
State government responsible for protecting mining reserves: Prahlad Joshi
Kolkata: It is the responsibility of the state government concerned to protect the mining reserves, including coal reserves, in the state, Union coal minister Prahlad Joshi said in the industrial township of…
- Kolkata
Student’s unnatural death: IIT-KGP, police submit reports before Calcutta HC
Kolkata: Authorities at IIT-Kharagpur on Tuesday filed a report before the Calcutta High Court giving details of the steps taken by the institute’s management and wardens to prevent ragging in its hostel.…
- India
FIR against Suvendu Adhikari for comments on female tribal minister
Kolkata: An FIR has been filed on Wednesday against the Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari for his alleged derogatory comments about Trinamool Congress legislator from Jhargram…
- India
TMC invites comedian Vir Das to Kolkata after Bengaluru show cancelled
New Delhi: TMC MP Derek O’Brien has invited stand-up comedian Vir Das to Kolkata, a day after his show in Bengaluru was cancelled at the last minute following protests by Hindu right-wing…
- 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…
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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…
