In the attempt to instil discipline, the Calcutta University on Monday said that it would not allow students to sit for examinations without a minimum percentage of attendance. “We are ensuring that students (in undergraduate and post-graduate levels) will not be allowed to write their papers without the minimum percentage[Read More…]
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Nine people booked in Rs 570 cr scam in Visakhapatnam
Nine people have been booked by the Visakhapatnam police for allegedly laundering Rs 570 crore by floating shell companies and making fraudulent remittances through hawala transactions. After a complaint by the joint director of income tax (investigations) M V N Seshu Bhavannarayana, the MVP Colony police in the town have[Read More…]
Justice Karnan, run-ins with the judiciary
Ending all speculations, the Apex Court on Tuesday declared that Justice CS Karnan was guilty of contempt of court and sentenced him to 6-month imprisonment. It is to be noted that he is the first sitting judge to be charged with contempt in the history of Indian judiciary. Justice Karnan[Read More…]
FB post claiming harassment of a 53-year old woman by Jet Airways goes viral
A Facebook post depicting one of the worst kinds of experience during the process of boarding a flight is going viral now. The post was shared by one Kawaljit Singh Bhatia on late Friday night. The terrible episode took place after Kawaljit dropped his mom, an elderly woman who was[Read More…]
SC raises doubts over Calcutta HC judge’s sanity
On Monday, the Supreme Court ordered a medical examination of Justice CS Karnan of the Calcutta High Court. The court has also ordered for a medical board to be formed to investigate Justice Karnan’s mental condition. The medical examination is scheduled on May 5 and the reports are to be[Read More…]
Model-actress Sonika Chauhan dies
Mamata Banerjee re-elected as TMC chairperson
Man claims to have threatened Mamata Banerjee
In the male-dominated world of higher judiciary, here comes a change!
In a significant move, four prominent women in India will now head the historical HCs – among the first few to be shaped in colonial India. The development took place following the appointment of Indira Banerjee as chief justice of the Madras HC on March 31. Apparently, the sex-ratio in[Read More…]
TMC MP delays Air India flight by 30 minutes
GST has to be introduced on a trial basis for two months: Chidambaram
Former union finance minister P. Chidambaram who was recently in Kolkata, just before the launch of his book ‘Fearless in Opposition: Power and Accountability,’ said that the government should not rush GST through. “According to me there are things that have to be done,” Chidambaram told the Telegraph. When asked[Read More…]
Kolkata DGP hands bailable warrant to Justice Karnan
Two arrested in chit fund case in Kolkata
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday arrested a father-son duo in connection with the chit fund case. Basudev Bagchi, former CMD of a chit-fund company — Prayag Group of Companies — in Kolkata, and his son and MD Avik Bagchi were booked under sections 120 B (criminal conspiracy), 420[Read More…]
Kolkata: Charred body of man found in Bhawanipore
On Wednesday, Kolkata Police recovered the charred body of a man from his flat in Bhawanipore area on Ashutosh Mukherjee Road on Wednesday. The man is named Madan Prasad Gupta. However, it is unclear why the person set himself on fire. It is also unclear if it was an accident[Read More…]
Prabhu pitches for rail connectivity with neighboring nations
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Wednesday pitched for rail connectivity with neighbouring countries to boost trade and eliminate poverty in the region. Highlighting the need for physical connectivity with neighbours for trade growth, he advocated work on rail link from Kathmandu to Delhi and Kolkata shortly. “Asia is going to[Read More…]
Thiruvananthapuram first, Pune second, Kolkata ranked third in City-Systems survey
The Annual Survey of India’s City-Systems (ASICS), released by Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy on Tuesday, ranked 21 key cities from 18 states in the nation, based on 83 parameters on the City-Systems framework. In the annual survey, Bengaluru has slipped from rank 12 in 2015 to rank 16[Read More…]
JU molestation case takes caste oppression turn
An MA student of Jadavpur University alleged on social media that she has been inappropriately touched and ‘violated’ by another student of the university during a feminist protest held inside the campus. The accused Sushil Kumar went missing after his name was made public on Facebook. The case took an[Read More…]
Bengali actress Bitasta Saha found dead in Kolkata
Travel Blogging Unplugged: Kolkata’s first international blogging event
Maintaining a blog is not an easy task to do. It could be a frustratingly slow experience as most of us will spend an enormous amount of time just to figure out ‘what next?’ If writing just, what is an engaging content to us would have invited billions of reader,[Read More…]
Kolkata wins best cities award for solid waste project
In a noteworthy progress, Kolkata, together with 10 other cities in the world, has been honoured with the best cities of 2016 award for inspiring and innovative programme concerning solid waste management, during the C40 Mayors Summit held in Mexico City. Notably, Kolkata is the only Indian city to receive[Read More…]
Kolkata hospitals reach out patients facing cash crunch
With the cash crunch presenting a serious problem to patients in making payments to the medical facilities for treatment received, most Kolkata hospitals in the city have come forward to help them by accepting cheques and debit or credit cards. Some hospitals in the city are also accepting undertaking in[Read More…]
2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup dates confirmed, from Oct 6-28; draw on July 7
The FIFA under-17 World Cup in 2017, which will be held in India, officially has six venues now after the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata was ratified by the FIFA delegation after an inspection on Tuesday. The other five venues that had been ratified before Kolkata are Kochi, Mumbai, Goa,[Read More…]
India v NZ, 2nd Test, Kolkata: Kiwis ahead despite Rahane, Pujara stand
New Zealand arrived in Kolkata expecting a rank turner and to make matters worse, they lost the toss. The Eden Garden curator though seemed to have different plans as the 22 yard strip had a green top and assisted the Kiwi pacers. The Indian batsman had their back against the[Read More…]
Four years after Park Street rape case, main accused Kader Khan arrested
Four years after woman’s rights activist Suzette Jordan was gangraped by five men in a moving car, the main accused in the case has been nabbed. On Thursday night, Kader Khan was apprehended from a hideout in Delhi on Thursday night along with an accomplice named Ali. The two will[Read More…]
Sons keep mother’s body inside house for 9 months in West Bengal
Two men kept their mother’s body in their house at Simhat in Nadia district for almost nine months and the skeleton was recovered on Sunday, police said. Arun Saha (65) and Ajit Saha (55), both unmarried, told police that their mother Nani Bala Saha died on January 16 at the[Read More…]