Kolkata: The state will prepare a ‘Vision-2047’ document for Greater Kolkata Metropolitan Region for urban expansion and long-term infrastructure planning, including elevated urban corridors and economic growth in MKA and its immediate influence areas for the next 20 years.KMDA is inviting consultancy proposals to finetune the infrastructure upgrade plans, such as developing a Kolkata Metropolitan…
Peerless Group’s revenue reached Rs 1,013 crore in FY 2026 Kolkata: Peerless Group is hoping that its hospital subsidiary will alone cross the Rs 500-crore mark by the end of this fiscal. The group as a whole had a revenue of Rs 500 crore four years back, and it has crossed Rs 1,000 crore.The group’s…
Kolkata: The Union rural development ministry will conduct a four-day training programme for Bengal govt officials this week to accelerate the implementation of the VB-G RAM G scheme. According to officials, the programme will be held from Tuesday to Friday at the Biswa Bangla Convention Centre in New Town. Senior officials from the Union ministry…
KOLKATA: Bengal can become the first state to have a Special Investigation Agency (SIA) modelled on National Investigation Agency (NIA). The proposal was among several discussed at a law-and-order review meeting chaired by Union home minister Amit Shah and attended by CM Suvendu Adhikari, along with senior officials from the state and the Centre, in…
Guwahati: The Budget 2026-27, presented in the Assembly on Friday, proposed the development of a satellite city centred around the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport, with an allocation of Rs 2,100 crore for land acquisition.Finance minister Jayanta Mallabaruh said sustained economic growth requires the creation of modern urban growth centres capable of attracting investments and…
CM Suvendu Adhikari at Swasthya Bhawan on Thursday Kolkata: The state-run SSKM Hospital is expected to get more beds, some of them even before Durga Puja, to tackle the patient rush. Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari also indicated at increasing the capacity at the state-run hospital’s Trauma Care Centre, apart from adding facilities, including beds, to…
Naxal movement to current times Kolkata: The recent history of encounter deaths in Bengal stretches back almost six decades but several factors have made these episodes stand out from each other across the different regimes that have governed Bengal since the 1960s. During the Naxal movement, encounters became a prominent fixture in Bengal with many…
The ED search in Salt Lake on Tuesday Kolkata: The ED on Tuesday carried out coordinated searches at five locations across Kolkata as part of its probe into transactions linked to Trinamool Congress’s bank accounts. The central investigating agency has claimed to have detected transactions worth more than Rs 150 crore routed through a network…
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…
Kolkata: The young woman at the centre of a confrontation with an app biker in New Town has appealed for an end to what she called a relentless social media witch hunt, saying she had accepted responsibility but could not understand why a momentary lapse had cost her her job, peace and personal safety.“Yes, I…
