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Times of India
March 22, 2018
KOLKATA: A class 10 examinee allegedly committed suicide over relationship issues with her boyfriend in Rajarhat in North 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, the police said on Thursday. The 15-year-old who appeared in the class 10 board examination conducted by the West Bengal Board of SecondaryÃâà...
Times of India
March 22, 2018
KOLKATA: Forensic experts on Wednesday said the ambulance in which Madhyamik examinee Arijit Das was transported from Annapurna Nursing home in Burdwan to Kolkata was “not life supporting”. Further, the interrogation of the four accused in the case has revealed that each trip made by the vehicleÃâà...
Business Standard
March 22, 2018
A critical phase of tunneling under the busiest part of the city, which houses a number of heritage buildings, was completed today by the Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation, a Metro official said. Starting from Howrah Maidan on the other side of the Hooghly, the west-bound line tunnel boring machine 'Prerna'Ãâà...
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March 22, 2018
Flipkart, India's leading e-commerce major, plans to invest about Rs600 crore for an integrated mega logistics hub in West Bengal, to cater to the eastern and northeastern regions of the country. The company plans to set up the 40 lakh sq ft high-tech logistics hub near Kolkata, the state capital. A companyÃâà...
Times of India
March 22, 2018
KOLKATA: The city will play host to a drama that seeks to connect science and storytelling in a unique way. Based on the life of Nobel laureate Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, the play — 'The Square root of a Sonnet' — depicts his journey in science and also explains black holes through an audio-visualÃâà...
The News Minute
March 22, 2018
Businesses keep recalibrating their strategies and sometimes they may have to go back after having moved forward. In a world, where outsourcing most functions except the core activities, has become the norm, the Indian ecommerce giant Flipkart has decided to set up its own large warehousing facilities.
Outlook India
March 22, 2018
Shiraz The Golden Restaurant– This restaurant at Mullikbazaar crossing, Park Street has been serving one of the best Kolkata style biryani in town for decades. Subtlety is the keyword here. The spices always compliment the fragrance of rice and pieces of meat can be taken off the bone with just the touchÃâà...
Times of India
March 22, 2018
KOLKATA: A 55-year-old woman was mowed down by a private as she tried to cross the road immediately after getting down from the same bus at Kidderpore crossing on Thursday morning. Police said, Gita Jaiswal had got down from the bus of route 80A near J&N island and tried to cross the road in aÃâà...
Times of India
March 22, 2018
By Anirban Ghosh KOLKATA: West Bengal's largest blood bank Maniktala Central Blood Bank is in the eye of a storm. It has been disclosed that in the past six weeks, more than 1500 units of blood were thrown away. All these units were well past expiry dates, with the incident creating a stir. With peopleÃâà...
The Better India
March 22, 2018
Safety for women has been a priority for the Kolkata Police—in 2014, female officers, part of the Reinforce City Patrol fleet, were posted at strategic locations. Their objective? React quickly to street crime, and be the first point of contact for victims. Kolkata also has eight all-women police stations, one in eachÃâà...
Times of India
March 18, 2018
KOLKATA: About 1,000 files have piled up at the mayor's desk at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation headquarters as Sovan Chatterjee stayed away from office for the last three days since he last came during the KMC budget session on March 14. Some relate to finance, some are work orders relating toÃâà...
Times of India
March 18, 2018
KOLKATA: A day after the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested a man from Maharastra for allegedly selling party drugs in the city, three persons, including a Mumbai ... Cops said Kolkata Police has seized 16.3gm MDMA and the NCB has seized 13.5gm, as well as nine ecstasy pills this year alone.
Times of India
March 18, 2018
KOLKATA: Thousands of exemployees and their spouses and dependants of the State Trading Corporation of India (STC) are in for a rude shock with the company, under the Union ministry of commerce, taking a decision on Thursday to suspend the STC (Retired Employees') Medical Benefit Scheme,Ãâà...
Times of India
March 18, 2018
KOLKATA: Cargo movement along a number of national and state highways close to Kolkata, including Jessore Road and National Highway 34, will be greatly reduced with the commissioning of dumb-barges, which were flagged off by secretary, ministry of shipping, Gopal Krishna from IWAI's GR Jetty inÃâà...
Times of India
March 18, 2018
Kolkata: Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is coming down to Kolkata on Monday to meet chief minister Mamata Banerjee over shaping up the ... “The fulcrum of the anti-BJP alliance is shifting from Delhi to Kolkata,” a Trinamool senior said, adding that Banerjee had the experience andÃâà...
Times of India
March 18, 2018
He has made around 18-20 trips with Tara Babu Sha (26), the ambulance driver, to Kolkata. He said there were not enough doctors in his place who would have the time to travel to Kolkata,” an investigating officer said. A police team has left for Nababhaat in Burdwan to investigate the role of the nursingÃâà...
Times of India
March 18, 2018
KOLKATA: A 43-year-old woman leapt to her death from the 17th floor of her rented apartment in the South City residential complex on Saturday afternoon. She was undergoing treatment for acute depression. Sonali Aikat's death marks the ninth suicide at South City since 2012, with eight of the nineÃâà...
Business Standard
March 18, 2018
The decomposed body of a 70-year-old woman was recovered from her central Kolkata residence on Sunday after neighbours complained that the son was living with his mother's dead body for days without taking any steps to perform her last rites, police said. The police broke into the house at SashÃâà...
Business Standard
March 18, 2018
"Part of a large window in an old three-storied building at 104 AP Road (central Kolkata's Srimani Market area), cracked and fell down on Sunday afternoon. Two shopkeepers sitting on the opposite pavement got injured as a chunk of concrete fell on them," said an officer from Amherst police station.
Times of India
March 17, 2018
KOLKATA: Tagore's houses – both in Kolkata and Santiniketan- draw innumerable number of tourists from across the world. Yet, the best preserved house of Bengal's greatest literary giants has not been able to securely keep the Nobel prize. If this is what happens to Tagore's memorabilia, what are theÃâà...
Times of India
March 8, 2018
KOLKATA: Starting Wednesday Kolkata is going to get special night bus and tram service which will run all through the night. The service will be inaugurated ... The bus and tram service will cover some important places in Kolkata, such as railway stations, airport and big hospitals. Read this story in Bengali.
The Indian Express
March 8, 2018
Altogether 30 BJP workers were arrested on Wednesday after they forcibly tried to enter the city police headquarters in Kolkata during a law violation programme to protest against the “worsening” law and order situation in the state, police said. The BJP workers, led by its state president Dilip Ghosh,Ãâà...
Times of India
March 8, 2018
While Jahan kept posting screenshots throughout Tuesday on Facebook, Shami was playing a Deodhar Trophy match at Dharamshala, representing India A against Karnataka. He ended up conceding 96 runs in his 10 overs and India A eventually lost the match. He was scheduled to return to Kolkata onÃâà...
India Today
March 8, 2018
A statue of Sangh ideologue Syama Prasad Mookerjee was damaged today in Kolkata. The incident of vandalism comes after two Lenin statues being toppled in Tripura and a Periyar bust being vandalised in Tamil Nadu. The Kolkata police arrested seven people for the alleged vandalism. At least five ofÃâà...
The Telegraph
March 8, 2018
Calcutta: A fringe ultra-Left student group allegedly vandalised a bust of Bharatiya Jana Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee in the Keoratala crematorium here on Wednesday morning purportedly in revenge for demolition of a Lenin statue in Tripura. A minister claimed that local Trinamul workers hadÃâà...
Scroll.in
March 8, 2018
The Kolkata Police on Wednesday arrested seven people who allegedly damaged and defaced a bust of Jana Sangh leader Syama Prasad Mookerjee in South Kolkata's Kalighat locality, The Telegraph reported. The six claimed to be students of Jadavpur University and members of a far-Left group calledÃâà...
The Hindu
March 8, 2018
The Northeast is home to more than 200 tribes and the difference in culture, food habits or language have become a subject of cultural stereotyping, making them extremely vulnerable in any city, says Aungdu Wakhet, president of Calcutta Arunachal Students' Association. “This is often the ground forÃâà...
The Hindu
March 8, 2018
In Sanskrit, “Dhrubajyoti” refers to the light (jyoti) emitted by the pole star (dhruva tara). The ecologist, who passed away in February, was unwavering in his commitment to the cause he lived for and fearlessly defended: saving the ecologically critical East Kolkata Wetlands from the greed of developers forÃâà...
Livemint
March 7, 2018
Kolkata: On 28 February, the principal of a college in Kolkata personally appeared before a Calcutta high court judge, seeking justice for 218 students ... On Monday, the cease work at the Calcutta high court entered the third week as three associations of lawyers unanimously agreed to extend the strike.
iNews
March 6, 2018
Most people who are interested in India know of its great cities, Mumbai with its Bollywood and the Gateway of India, Delhi with its Lutyens-designed government buildings and Mughal Red Fort. But Kolkata and Hyderabad, India's third and sixth largest cities? Not so much. Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, is moreÃâà...
