Debraj Chakrabarty being escorted out of the Baguiati PS for Barasat court on Wednesday Kolkata: Former Bidhannagar councillor Debraj Chakraborty’s three-week attempt to stay off the police radar by criss-crossing north Bengal and north India on public transport, paying only in cash and avoiding regular calls came to an end after investigators traced the mobile…
Kolkata: For nearly 12 hours, 19-year-old Mannu Kumar lay trapped under tonnes of concrete, twisted steel and broken masonry after an under-construction warehouse collapsed in Taratala on Wednesday. Buried deep in the basement, the migrant worker from Bihar’s Munger was surrounded by darkness, dust and debris, with no way of knowing whether rescuers could reach…
Kolkata: The Bengal govt will introduce a legislation to protect “lawful businesses from syndicate charges” and other forms of “informal extortion”, finance minister Swapan Dasgupta announced while presenting the state budget on Monday.He described the move as a key step towards improving the investment climate and reducing the cost of doing business in Bengal.CM Suvendu…
Kolkata: Three men and two women, all Trinamool Congress workers including a former councillor, were arrested in connection with the violent clash between supporters of the TMC and BJP outside Kolkata airport on Friday night that triggered panic among passengers and led to massive traffic disruptions in the area.The clash had snowballed into a larger…
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…
Lightning strikes aircraft Kolkata: A lightning struck an Agartala-bound IndiGo aircraft, with 141 passengers and six crew members on board, moments before departure at the Kolkata airport on Friday morning. An immediate power outage and panic among flyers forced the airline to deboard the passengers and arrange for a replacement aircraft after mandatory safety inspections.Two…
A truck ferrying CNG cylinders was on the Taratala flyover when the cap of a cylinder came off and gas leaked Kolkata: Traffic was briefly suspended on the Taratala flyover on Tuesday morning following a gas leak from a CNG cylinder. The emergency shutdown of traffic led to congestion on Diamond Harbour Road in the…
Golf Green two decomposed body recovered from a flat at golf green vin Kolkata……Subhojyoti Kanjilal Kolkata: The decomposed bodies of a 26-year-old man and a 21-year-old woman, believed to have been in a live-in relationship, were recovered from a rented one-bedroom flat in Golf Green’s Aravinda Nagar on Sunday. The incident has triggered a police…
