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Etihad Airways announces new daily flight to Kolkata
Abu Dhabi: Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways on Thursday announced the relaunch of a daily flight service to Kolkata, India, from Abu Dhabi, starting from March 26, 2023. The airways will fly daily…
- Kolkata
Calcutta HC refuses to stay Suvendu Adhikari’s protection against FIRs
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday refused to stay the immunity of the Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari against future FIRs granted earlier by a single-judge bench…
- Kolkata
“Questions are being raised on civil liberties…”: Amitabh Bachchan
Kolkata: Veteran Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan, on Thursday, inaugurated the 28th Kolkata International Film Festival. The ‘Shehenshah’ actor delivered a lengthy speech on British censorship, pre-independence films against oppressors, communalism, and societal…
- 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
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…
- News
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…