Kolkata: In a bid to overhaul the state’s healthcare landscape, the govt on Monday announced a series of medical and health initiatives during the presentation of the state budget. The major highlights include the setting up of a second AIIMS and a dedicated cancer specialty hospital in north Bengal, alongside the creation of four new…
Kolkata: Controversy over the renaming of Park Circus’s Suhrawardy Avenue as Gopal Mukherjee Road intensified on Monday, with CM Suvendu Adhikari indicating that more such renamings could follow, while Trinamool, Congress and Left leaders accused the BJP govt of conflating educationist Hassan Suhrawardy, after whom the road was named, with former undivided Bengal prime minister…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi commissioned the warships INS Dunagiri, INS Sanshodhak and INS Agray in the presence of Shri R. N. Ravi,Governor of West Bengal, Shri Suvendu Adhikari, Chief Minister , Admiral Krishna Swaminathan, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Chief of the Naval Staff at Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE) Ltd. Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
Kolkata: A doctor cannot be held liable for negligence merely because an alternative course or a better treatment method was available, Calcutta high court held while quashing a criminal case against a gynaecologist from Alipore’s Woodland Multi-Speciality Hospital.Father of a newborn had filed a case at Alipore police station against Pervinder Kaur alias Dr Parvinder…
Yoga Day at Victoria Memorial People perform yoga during the International Day of Yoga celebrations at the Victoria Memorial in Kolkata on Sunday……Subhojyoti Kanjilal Twelve years old Samridhhi Pandey, a New Town resident, woke up at 4 am and rushed to his school SPK Jain Futuristic Academy for attending a yoga session. At Mahanayak Uttam…
Heavy rainfall and waterlogging in Kolkata…….Subhojyoti Kanjilal Kolkata: The city and its adjoining areas witnessed heavy rainfall on Sunday in the latter half of the morning, causing waterlogging in many parts of the city and slowing down traffic at several parts of the city, including stretches of south and central Kolkata, the VIP Road and…
Kolkata: Amid gusty winds and heavy rainfall, examinees struggled to reach their examination halls for the NEET re-test on Sunday. Out of 109,527 registered candidates, 93,878 appeared for the exam, while 15,649 skipped the re-test. Candidates appearing for the test in Kolkata faced severe difficulties reaching their centres because a heavy downpour drenched the city…
Former Bengal minister Aroop Biswas at Alipore Judges’ court to visit his lawyer’s chamber Kolkata: Slapped with a show-cause notice on Saturday for his June 12 letter to HDFC Bank seeking a debit freeze on Trinamool’s bank accounts, former state minister Aroop Biswas has responded with a three-page letter on Sunday, claiming that even while…
The Park Circus road that has been named after Gopal Mukherjee Kolkata: Suhrawardy Ave-nue in Park Circus has been renamed Gopal Mukherjee Road after ‘Gopal Pattha’, one of the key defenders of central Calcutta’s Hindu neighbourhoods during the Direct Action Day communal clashes of Aug 1946.CM Suvendu Adhikari announced the renaming in an X post…
The event aligned with the national celebrations where Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually addressed the country from Red Road, Kolkata Chandigarh: The Chandigarh Administration celebrated the state-level 12th International Day of Yoga on Sunday, with Punjab governor and UT administrator Gulab Chand Kataria leading the primary event at Sector 17. Addressing the gathering, Kataria urged…
