Varanasi: Offering extensive health service benefits to its teachers and employees, the Banaras Hindu University has decided to sign pacts with some private hospitals to provided treatment to the university staff on CGHS (Central Government Health Scheme) rates.As per the pact the BHU staff will be able to avail health facilities at CGHS rates in…
Kolkata: Chandan Sarker, owner of a construction firm, has lodged a complaint at the Survey Park PS against Tarak Chakraborty, former councillor and a former KMC borough chairman, accusing him of Rs 1 crore extortion, death threats and property damage. Sarker claimed Chakraborty used his political clout and local thugs to disrupt his projects as…
CM Suvendu Adhikari at an event to mark the 189th birth anniversary of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay Kolkata: Bengal govt will not only implement Uniform Civil Code (UCC) but also bring tough laws on land jihad, love jihad and forcible conversions, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari said on Friday, adding, “Keep the faith. Please allow us some…
Kolkata: The toll in the Taratala warehouse collapse rose to 16 on Friday after three more bodies were pulled out of the debris, the last around 1.10 am, and two injured workers died at SSKM Hospital on Thursday night and Friday evening.One of the bodies recovered early on Friday was yet to be identified till…
Officials will examine under-construction projects for major violations, recommend rejection where required or suggest rectification measures to protect sanctioned plans Kolkata: Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari on Friday widened the ambit of the special audit of building plans and the construction pause at private high-rise and commercial projects to include more municipalities around Kolkata, but clarified…
Kolkata: VietJet Thailand is set to fly into the city again on July 1, some 11 weeks after it had withdrawn the Kolkata-Bangkok flight citing rising fuel costs in the wake of the war in Iran.The airline will resume its four days-a-week operations. The incoming flight from Bangkok will land just before midnight on Sundays,…
Dwaipayan.GhoshKolkata: Former minister Aroop Biswas has been named in a fresh FIR over an alleged attempt on a lawyer’s life inside the Alipore court complex. The FIR was registered at Alipore Police Station under BNS sections 109 (attempt to murder) and 153 (wanton provocation with intent to cause a riot) following a violent altercation on…
Mani Ratnam with Avik Mukhopadhyay during the Kolkata recee of his film early this month Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari met actor-producer Anupam Kher on Friday and pledged full support for his upcoming co-production, ‘Shuru Theke Shuru’, which is set in Kolkata. Kher’s return to Bengali film production — his first since Rituparno Ghosh’s ‘Bariwali’ 26…
Jaipur: The Central Bureau of Investigation said Thursday it carried out coordinated searches at over 80 locations, including in Rajasthan, as part of a nationwide crackdown on organised cybercrime networks behind digital arrest scams. The raids, conducted under Operation Chakra-VI, were aimed at dismantling infrastructure allegedly used to facilitate over 200 cases of cyber fraud…
Kolkata: Larsen & Toubro (L&T) plans to invest more than Rs 4,500 crore in Bengal over the next few years, with chairman S N Subrahmanyan expected to meet CM Suvendu Adhikari next month to discuss a series of investment proposals.Dip Kishore Sen, adviser to the L&T chairman and managing director, told TOI that Subrahmanyan is…
