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…]
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CU UG Result 2018: Calcutta University Declares BA, BSc Part 1 Exam Results @ wbresults.nic.in
CU UG Result 2018 update: Calcutta University (CU) has announced the results of both BA and BSc Honours/ Major Part 1 examination 2018 today, Thursday, November 29, 2018. The varsity has released the results online. Students may check the results on the CU’s official website, wbresults.nic.in. The step by step guide[Read More…]
Singur March: Thousands of farmers march to Kolkata under red flag
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…]
#SingurKisanMarch: 50,000 Kisan preparing for long march to Kolkata on November 28-29
Singur will be Ground Zero from where 10,000 farmers, Bargadars and agricultural workers will kickstart the ‘Singur to Raj Bhavan Abhijan’, on November 28, to highlight the series of crises engulfing the agrarian sector in West Bengal. They will be joined by 40,000 others from various parts of the state,[Read More…]
Jamshedpur: XLRI student found dead in a hotel in Kolkata
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 woman burnt for dowry, extra-marital affair; 3 held
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…]
India Vs Windies, 1st T20: Live Commentary and Match Updates
Live Updates Between India vs West Indies 1st T20 ODI: India win the game by 5 wickets! Krunal Pandya with two boundaries has given India the breather. Need just 9 in 17, should be easy peasy. The game has opened up once, Manish Pandey OUT! India 83/5 after 15 overs. India[Read More…]
Kolkata: No Entry! After Sabarimala now women prohibited in Kali Puja
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: Law University offers Harry Potter course to teach legal aspects of wizarding
The National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata, has introduced a Harry Potter elective course, titled – An Interface between Fantasy Fiction Literature and Law: Special Focus on Rowling’s Potterverse – for the students of the 4th and the 5th year of the BA LLB (Hons) programme in the winter[Read More…]
Catastrophic warning: Delhi’s average temperature spikes 1 degree, Kolkata 1.2 degrees
New Delhi: The average temperature in the national capital increased by one degree Celsius, by 0.7 degree in Mumbai, 0.6 degree in Chennai and 1.2 degrees in Kolkata in over a century-and-a-half. These startling revelations by Britain-based CarbonBrief came when all eyes are on South Korea as scientists discuss stricter[Read More…]
Kolkata Bridge: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee announces a new one in a year
The West Bengal government plans to pull down the entire the entire span of the Majerhat bridge to build a new one within a year. There were doubts about whether the deadline is sufficient for it because of the challenges of erecting a structure over rail tracks and getting work[Read More…]
Kolkata tops as city for 4G availability in India: OpenSignal
As 4G penetration increases in India, Kolkata has emerged as the top city with a 4G availability score of an impressive over 90 per cent, London-based wireless coverage mapping company OpenSignal said on Thursday. Kolkata topped the list of 22 telecom circles in the country. However, the other 21 circles saw 4G (LTE) reach scores over 80 per cent, including[Read More…]
Kolkata Bridge Collapse LIVE Updates: One dead, several injured; rescue ops under way
State Congress president Adhir Chowdhury demanded an ‘answer’ from West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and Public Works Department Minister Firhad Hakim. The collapsed Majerhat bridge deserved better maintenance. There are reports that there was a pit near the bridge that remained unattended for quite some time, I don’t know[Read More…]
Bodies of 14 newborn babies found at Kolkata ground
In a shocking incident, at least 14 dead bodies of newborn babies, wrapped in plastic bags, were recovered from a deserted ground in south Kolkata’s Haridebpur on Sunday, police said. Covered with shrubs and twigs, the bodies were found on Sunday afternoon while the sprawling ground was being cleaned up.[Read More…]
Petrol, diesel prices in India touch all-time high
Fuel prices continued to rise for the sixth consecutive day on Friday, with petrol and diesel prices touching new highs in Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai. As per the prices announced under the daily dynamic pricing regime by the state-run Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), fuel prices continued to rise across the country on[Read More…]
“Go to Bangladesh or Pakistan” asks HDFC employee to Bangla customer in Kolkata
A Bangla customer of HDFC told to “Go to Pakistan or Bangladesh” for expressing his wish to fill the form in Bangla. Amit Sen wanted to fill the deposit form in Bangla language which is also the state language in West Bengal. As Sen submitted the form to the employee,[Read More…]
Hyderabad: IKEA store attracts 40,000 customers on first day
About 40,000 people visited IKEA’s first India store on its opening day here, a company spokesperson told IANS. The world’s leading Swedish home furnishings retailer received a huge response from customers on Thursday. “With a huge crowd from across the city thronging the store in the evening, the IKEA staff found it a bit challenging to[Read More…]
Kolkata sets example: Locals, Durga Puja Committee members helped Muslim doctors to stay back
Four Muslim doctors of Kudghat area of Kolkata, who were being forced to vacate their rented house because of their religious identity, has got assurance from the locals that they won’t have to vacate their place any longer. The pressure on them was made because of them being Muslims but,[Read More…]
Kolkata: Four Muslim doctors forced to vacate rented house by neighbours
Recently a sand artist had made headlines for making a sand sculpture portraying Hindi-Muslim unity in the nation, however, four Muslim doctors – residents of the Kudghat area of Kolkata – are being forced to vacate their rented houses as they are ‘Muslims’. The four Muslim doctors, who have been[Read More…]
Mamata to meet UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, invite her to federal front rally in Kolkata
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee will meet UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and leaders from several other parties on Wednesday to invite them for a mega anti-BJP rally to be held in Kolkata on January 19 next year. On Tuesday, she had meetings with[Read More…]
No arrest made even after a fortnight of 5 year old’s rape
Kolkata: At the same time when we all are glad that the Supreme Court has upheld the judgment in Nirbhaya gang-rape case, about 305 kilometers away from Kolkata, a mother has been running from the pillar to post to get justice for her five-year-old rape survivor. A 21-year-old neighbour raped[Read More…]
Nigerian at the Kolkata Airport caught with Cocaine concealed in uterus
Kolkata: A 31-year-old Nigerian woman at the Kolkata airport was detained for allegedly trying to smuggle cocaine in her uterus on Monday night, ten days after five Chinese nationals were arrested from a railway station in the city with almost 200kg of a banned party drug. Narcotics Control Bureau’s eastern[Read More…]
15% hike in housing sales across 9 major cities in April-June quarter
Sales of housing units across nine major cities in the country grew by 15% during the April-June period compared to the previous January-March quarter, a report said on Monday. The total absorption of housing units increased by 15% across top nine cities in India in the second quarter of 2018[Read More…]
Former BJD MLA arrested for sex scam, suspended from party
Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik suspended the former MLA Naveen Nanda from the party on Monday, July 2, after receiving the reports of Nanda being indulged in malicious incidents in Kolkata. BJD secretary Bijay Nayak said in a statement that it was reported that[Read More…]
Soldier dies of suspected Nipah virus infection in Kolkata
Kolkata: A soldier has died here of suspected Nipah virus infection, a Defence spokesman said here on Wednesday. Seenu Prasad, who hails from Kerala and posted at the Eastern Command headquarters Fort William, was admitted to the Command Hospital here on May 20 and passed away on May 25, the[Read More…]