A magician in Kolkata on Sunday who tried to recreate Harry Houdini’s trick by jumping into the Hooghly river, remains missing and feared drowned. According to eye witnesses, Lahiri went inside the river from Millenium Park, with the intention to mesmerize people with his magic but disappeared near pillar number[Read More…]
West Bengal
Patients suffer as junior doctors strike work in Bengal
Family members of patients at the state-run SSKM Hospital started a simultaneous protest demanding treatment of their ailing kin
BJP spreading rumours about Bengal violence: Mamata Banerjee
“Our state is the best. Our performance was the best at the all India level. Rumours about violence in West Bengal have been spread through the social media to defame Bengal,” Mamata said.
Bengal Congress chief Somen Mitra calls for alliance with Left
The Left and the Congress had formed an alliance ahead of the 2016 state Assembly polls, but the combine came a cropper at the hustings, as the Trianamool retained power.
Man climbs tree, threatens suicide as salary delayed
Kolkata: In protest against the non-payment of his salary for the last 18 months, a contractual worker in West Bengal’s Purulia Municipality climbed a tree and threatened to commit suicide by jumping down, police said on Saturday. “Gajanan Sutradhar, who works on a contract basis, climbed up the mango tree[Read More…]
Kolkata Beef Festival canceled as organisers received 100s of threat calls
The “Kolkata Beep Festival” was earlier scheduled to take place at a south Kolkata restaurant on June 23.
Fruitless to attend NITI Aayog meet: Mamata Banerjee
Banerjee, in her letter, traced the history of the NITI Aayog ever since it was formed on January 1, 2015, to replace the Planning Commission.
West Bengal: Man kills wife for giving birth to girl
Kolkata: A 28-year-old man has been arrested in West Bengal’s Paschim Midnapore district for strangulating his wife to death after she gave birth to a girl child, police said on Thursday. “Lakshmipriya Jana, 25, was killed on Wednesday night. Her husband Shintu Jana has been held for interrogation,” a police[Read More…]
Mamata Banerjee signs election strategist Prashant Kishor
After the two-hour long meeting in Kolkata, Mamata Banerjee signed up Prashant Kishor’s for strategising her election campaigning.
Organisers change name of festival in Kolkata from ‘beef’ to ‘beep’ after threats
In order to avoid unnecessary controversy, the name was changed to ‘Kolkata Beep Festival’
