Kolkata: A young man attempted suicide by jumping in front of a Metro train here on Wednesday, causing brief disruption to Metro services, an official said. The youth was rushed to the R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital for treatment. “There has been a suicide attempt in Dumdum station,” Kolkata[Read More…]
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday observed the 21st foundation day of Trinamool Congress party. “Today @AITCofficial turns 21. The journey which began on January 1, 1998, has been full of struggles, but we have been steadfast in our resolve to fight for the people #Trinamool21,” Banerjee[Read More…]
While we receive range of gifts from our loved ones on the occasion of New Year, female employees of a Kolkata-based firm called FlyMyBiz were lucky as the company announced one-day paid period leave every month from January 1, 2019 to its female employees. So, apart from their regular holidays, female employees[Read More…]
Kolkata: A day after at least 40 passengers were injured in a Kolkata metro fire, West Bengal Fire Services department on Friday issued a notice to the metro authority for lack of fire safety measures, a senior official of the state fire department said. “We have issued a notice to[Read More…]
On Thursday evening, Kolkata metro services got affected after a fire broke out inside a coach of an AC train. The incident took place when the train was running between Rabindra Sadan and Maidan metro stations, as per the reports. 16 people got injured out of which 15 people have[Read More…]
Veteran Bengali poet Nirendranath Chakraborty passes away on Tuesday in Kolkata. He was 94. Chakraborty was suffering from old age ailments for a long time. In his writings, in the unknowable King Poetry, he had harbored a socialist mohabbadi social system. Nirendranath Chakraborty won the Sahitya Academy Award in 1974 for the book[Read More…]
A Kolkata-based doctor Sandip Kar effectively used the ‘Darbari Kanada’ raag as a therapy to cure a girl in coma. Dr Sandip, an assistant professor at Seth Sukhlal Karnani Memorial Hospital in Kolkata, is a violinist at the Akashvani in West Bengal. Sandip had researched on music therapy and treatment[Read More…]
Calcutta University BA, BSc Part-II results update: CU BA, BSc Part-II results are now available on the official website of Calcutta University. While the varsity declared the results on December 14, 2018, candidates can now check the scores online. Guide to check Calcutta University BA, BSc Part-II results is given[Read More…]
Joynagar: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Biswanath Das survived a fatal attack on Thursday night when dozens of unidentified men attacked his vehicle with bombs and bullets. Three persons shot dead in this shootout at a petrol pump in Joynagar area on Thursday night. Das who had got down from his[Read More…]
Kolkata: Soaked in confidence and basking in glory after securing the victory in three states assembly elections, the Congress Party in West Bengal would like to contest all alone in the upcoming Lok Sabha 2019 polls. West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC) President Somen Mitra said that the state unit[Read More…]
Kolkata: A man allegedly killed his six-month-old daughter by throwing her on the floor after a domestic argument with is wife in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district. The incident happened last week on Friday morning. The baby was admitted to Burdwan Medical College and Hospital in a critical condition following which the[Read More…]
Singur: At least 10,000 farmers, Bargadars and agricultural workers launched a historic march towards Kolkata on Wednesday. The national highway lit up in the afternoon sun, as the farming community of Singur and south Bengal, holding aloft giant Red flags, briskly covered 10 km in just under three hours. The gritty[Read More…]
Kolkata: Three persons, including a woman, have been arrested after a woman in central part of the city alleged that she was gang-raped after being lured with a job offer, police said on Saturday. “The 22-year-old woman filed a complaint against three men and two women in the incident that[Read More…]
Kolkata, Nov 23 (IANS) A person was on Friday arrested from West Bengal’s Murshidabad district for trying to smuggle a rare species of takshak snake (gecko) worth Rs 9 crore, police said. “A man named Isha Seikh was arrested near Murshidabad district’s Farakka area with a rare species of takshak[Read More…]
Many lives survived for what could have been an extremely horrific accident. In Bengaluru-Tinsukiya, a weekly superfast express, an accident was averted. The train ran without an engine for almost 2 kms, leaving as many as 21 coaching vulnerable to an accident. The coaches thankfully stopped on their own near[Read More…]
Kolkata, A woman committed suicide in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district after being harassed for dowry, police said on Thursday. “Puja Kundu, 21, was found hanging on Tuesday. Her mother has filed a complaint against her husband and mother-in-law for constantly harassing her for dowry,” an official of Gopalnagar[Read More…]
Kolkata, Two persons were killed in West Bengal early on Thursday when a container-trailer collided with a gas tanker on the Kona Expressway in the Howrah district, an official said. “The crash took place around 3.50 a.m. There was an explosion and both the vehicles caught fire. Charred remains of[Read More…]
WB Police SI Excise prelims result 2018: West Bengal Police has announced the WB Police SI Excise prelims result 2018 today, November 19, 2018. The result is now available online. Candidates can check WB Police SI Excise prelims result 2018 from the West Bengal Police’s official website. “Result of Preliminary[Read More…]
Kolkata: West Bengal BJP Kisan Morcha (farmers wing) will stage a march to the state assembly on November 20 to press for the demands of the farmers, state morcha president Ramkrishna Pal said on Tuesday. Karnataka: JDS leader brutally killed in Kanakpura “The farmers in Bengal are struggling to meet[Read More…]
Jamshedpur: A student of Xavier School of Management (XLRI) found dead in suspicious circumstances inside a bathroom of Hotel Peerless Inn in Kolkata with knife injury mark on his neck. Harsh Balani, a 24-year-old was a resident of Rajkot Gujarat and was in his second year of the course. Police[Read More…]
Kolkata: A married woman was allegedly beaten to death following a dispute over dowry in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Sunday, police said. “Tanaya Mondal, a resident of North 24 Parganas district’s Bagdah, was declared dead in the hospital on Sunday morning. There were external injury marks in[Read More…]
Kolkata: A 22-year-old woman in Kolkata’s Baguiati area sought justice before succumbing to burn injuries, after which her husband and two others have been arrested, police said on Monday. “Sangita Das suffered burn injuries on October 26 and she died on November 3. Her husband, Amarnath Das, 25, her mother-in-law[Read More…]
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday issued a legal notice against Trinamool Congress MP and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee‘s nephew Abhishek Banerjee for blaming the saffron outfit for the killing of five Bengalis in Assam’s Tinsukia and warned him of further legal action, a senior state BJP leader[Read More…]
Amidst the raging controversy surrounding Kerala’s Sabarimala temple, a 34-year-old Kali Puja here is now getting media attention as it doesn’t allow women to step inside the marquee premises, with belief reigning stronger than rights. “Our 34-year-old Panchamunda Kali Puja follows tantra (an ancient esoteric Hindu tradition). Tantric priests from[Read More…]
Kolkata: West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress on Friday held protests across the state against the killing of five Bengalis in Assam’s Tinsukia as it put the blame on the Assam government and their NRC move. The Trinamool claimed that the discriminatory attitude of Assam towards the Bengali-speaking population in the[Read More…]
