Jorasanko Thakur Bari, the ancestral house of Tagore, is one of the campuses of the state-run varsity.
The East-West Metro, connecting Salt Lake and Howrah via Kolkata, is also likely to start operations across its full length by August next year, he said.
Chandannagar takes the top spot when it comes to light decorations for a festival. Jagadhatri Maa is worshipped in many areas of Kolkata, but the biggest celebration of this festival is seen in Chandannagar. Special pujas are performed here for four days.
The state government will not send Home Secretary B P Gopalika or Director General of Police (DGP) Manoj Malviya, but will send Additional Director General (Home Guard) Niraj Kumar Singh, he said.
A bench of justices Aniruddha Bose and Vikram Nath refused to interfere with the ED arrest and junked the plea filed by Bhattacharya.
The state government has decided to provide a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to each family whose house developed cracks in the Bowbazar area of the city.
Residents of these houses located at Madan Dutta Lane were being shifted to nearby hotels, Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC) general manager, administration, AK Nandy said.
The suspect and another person had bought fuel from a nearby petrol pump on the night of March 21 and it was used for burning the houses at Bogtui, he said.
A division bench presided by Justice Joymalya Bagchi directed the state government to inform it by 2 pm on whether the mandatory provision was complied with.
A group of five people, all residents of Beleghata area, were at the Nimtala ghat on Monday night for the last rites of a relative, they said.
Forty-one people were arrested in connection with the clashes, they said.
According to sources, Bhattacharya, the former chairman of the West Bengal Board of Primary Education was arrested today after he was questioned overnight by ED officials in connection with the teachers’ recruitment scam.
Retailers and hoteliers experienced ”30-40 per cent higher sales” in value terms during this puja period as compared to that of 2019, exceeding their expectation of around 20 per cent growth.
According to the official, the city in 2019 had registered 1,630 dengue cases during the same period. The data of dengue cases in 2020 and 2021 during the same period is not available.
Eateries had a tough time remaining in business during the two years of Covid-19 and now they are happy that eating out had become in-thing again, owners of different restaurants said.
Mondal, currently in judicial remand, is lodged in Asansol correctional home.
The deceased persons included an eight-year-old boy and a girl, aged 13, the official said, adding that among the other six were three women.
The accident occurred on Wednesday night when the passenger vehicle rammed the pedestrians on the flyover, a senior officer said.
Many ‘barowari’ (community) pujas have given contemporary themes a miss as they believe that people, in their search of novelty, are losing touch with their culture and traditions.
Among those arrested are a founding director and two territory managers of private companies, he said.
Addressing a press conference, Basu said the government will fill up 5,261 posts in state-run and state-aided primary schools in a free, fair and transparent manner.
Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay directed that in case Bhattacharya fails to appear before the CBI by the given time, the agency can take him in custody for interrogation.
The pandal has been brought up by the Nawpara Dadabhai Sangh Puja Committee in the city which was inaugurated by Lok Sabha MP and actor Shatrughan Sinha on Monday.
Around 200 TET candidates, who had qualified in that 2014 and 2016 examinations, but could not get job are on a sit-in before Gandhi statue in the Esplanade area of the city for over 520 days demanding jobs.
Agitators squatted on railway tracks at Kustaur in Adra Division in Purulia district and Khemasuli in Kharagpur Division in Paschim Medinipur, leading to cancellation, short-termination and diversion of several trains, an SER spokesperson said.