The Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate (ADPC) has unearthed an inter-state fake license racket and has seized five guns and ammunitions. The racket was active in this industrial region. Five persons have been arrested in this connection.Sandeep Karra, ADCP (West) ...
13 September 2024 The StatesmanThe vehicle used in the highway heist has been seized and Madhusudan Bag, one of the main accused has been arrested from Tamluk in West Midnapore district by Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate (ADPC) in connection with the money looted ...
13 September 2024 The StatesmanA health team from Swasthya Bhawan visited the affected zone after the death of two persons of dengue in Bankura district in the past seven days as 739 people have been detected with dengue throughout the district so far.Sabrunessa ...
13 September 2024 The StatesmanDr Nupur Ghosh and Dr Tapash Ghosh have been transferred from Burdwan Medical College, as per the demands of agitating junior doctors.Incidentally, Dr Nupur Ghosh is the wife of controversial Dr Avik Dey, the close associate of R G ...
13 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), probing the horrific incident of rape and murder of the 31-year-old woman post graduate trainee (PGT) doctor, raided the residence of Dr Sudipta Roy, Trinamul Congress MLA and chairman of the Rogi Kalyan ...
13 September 2024 The StatesmanThe junior doctors were getting ready for dinner after a day-long sit-in protest and continuous slogan shouting, in front of the Swasthya Bhawan at Salt Lake on Wednesday.Suddenly, one of the protesting doctors desperately started looking for a stethoscope.One ...
13 September 2024 The StatesmanAnticipating heavy rush on weekends before the upcoming Durga Puja, Kolkata Metro Railway has decided to run on Saturdays and Sundays in the Blue Line from 14 September. On the forthcoming two Saturdays on 14 and 21 September, the ...
13 September 2024 The StatesmanSitaram Yechury, CPM general secretary died at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences ( AIMS), New Delhi this afternoon after a brief illness.He was 72-years old. He became a politburo member of the CPM in 1992. He was ...
13 September 2024 The StatesmanIIT Kharagpur, in collaboration with the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, has made a significant breakthrough in soil analysis through the development of diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) models.This pioneering technology offers high-throughput soil testing ...
13 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Federation of West Bengal Truck Operators Association have called 72 hours chakka Jam from 11 September to press for their seven-point demands.People fear that three days’ truck strike would lead to acute shortage of green vegetables, potatoes, onions ...
13 September 2024 The StatesmanWith demands for improved women safety echoing, the Eastern Railway has enhanced security measures for women passengers.To prevent any untoward incident, the zonal railway’s security personnel have intensified the hunt for male passengers in ladies’ coaches. In addition, “Meri ...
12 September 2024 The StatesmanA gang entered the judges’ residence in Diamond Harbour with firearms to terrorize the judges. The judges have sought the intervention of the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court.Judges are feeling unsafe. It is suspected that the intrusion ...
12 September 2024 The StatesmanAn elderly man and a two-year-old girl were killed in two separate road accidents due to reckless driving. The incidents led to agitation and road blocks in the respective areas.An elderly man was crushed by a speeding vehicle while ...
12 September 2024 The StatesmanThousands of trucks were stranded since morning across the state following truck owners’ call for a 72-hour strike starting today.They are demanding seven key issues to be resolved, including stopping vehicle overloading, ending harassment by police, political parties and ...
12 September 2024 The StatesmanMumbai-based fraudsters siphoned off Rs 1.43 crore from the account of Burdwan Municipality, in two phases. The matter has come to light after a new cheque, worth Rs 97 lakh, was presented at a nationalised bank for withdrawal.What is ...
12 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Asansol Municipal Corporation (AMC) has prepared a list of unauthorized constructions besides the Garui river and will send notices for demolitions soon, while the detailed project report (DPR) of Rs 12 crore for restoration of the rivulet has ...
12 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Haripal Sramajibi Hospital first started rendering medical treatment from 16 April, 2023 with a total capacity of 30 beds. The state started the Swasthya Sathi beneficiary scheme after that. The date 9 September will be remembered as the ...
12 September 2024 The StatesmanThe highway robbers at Durgapur had looted a sealed pack of salt and not Rs 1 crore in cash, latest investigations have revealed.Two policemen, ASI Asim Chakraborty, the duty officer of Durgapur PS and Chandan Chowdhury, a ...
12 September 2024 The StatesmanIn a major relief to the citizens planning shopping or pandal hopping during Durga Puja, the Kolkata Metro Railway today launched a mobile-based integrated QR code ticketing system in the Blue Line.Citizens would be able to plan their day ...
12 September 2024 The StatesmanIn a series of twists and turns in the investigation of the deceased junior doctor, a new row erupted today following the surfacing of an alleged note of dissent by a doctor, who was in the team of doctors ...
12 September 2024 The StatesmanA five-member disciplinary action committee (DAC) at North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NBMC&H) has recommended stringent actions against 12 individuals, including senior officials, house staff, postgraduate trainees and other students, following protests against ‘threat culture’ here related to ...
11 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate (ADPC) special investigation team, comprising officers from various police stations, in connection with the Durgapur highway cash loot case have arrested wife of Prithviraj Oswal, Radhika Oswal and seized a 9mm mauser (pistol) from ...
11 September 2024 The StatesmanSukanya Mondal, daughter of Anubrata Mondal, Birbhum district president of Trinamul Congress, has got bail from Delhi High Court today in connection with the cross-border cattle smuggling case.She was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in April 2023, after ...
11 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Eastern Railway has urged passengers and other people not to panic if they see smoke from the train wheels. It has clarified that smoke emanating from the wheels is a common occurrence in both ICF and LHB coaches.Notably, ...
11 September 2024 The StatesmanSwapan Basu, a virtuoso in folk music, will be commemorating 35 years of his first music cover, ‘Moner Ayna’ at Rabindra Sadan on Friday. A man who had devoted a great part of his life towards understanding and preaching ...
11 September 2024 The StatesmanA senior citizen, Sadananda Pal (63), a resident of Nalikul Cinematala, Haripal, on 18 August was hit on the back by a motorbike at high speed. He had received serious head injuries. He was rushed from one hospital ...
11 September 2024 The StatesmanLeader of Opposition in the Assembly Suvendu Adhikari, today voiced his support for the ongoing agitation by junior doctors demanding justice for the R G Kar Medical College rape-murder victim.Speaking to reporters at Bagdogra airport, Mr Adhikari emphasised the ...
11 September 2024 The StatesmanDespite the Supreme Court directive to the agitating junior doctors to resume work by 5 pm on Tuesday, the protestors said that they would continue their month-long cease-work in state-run medical colleges till their charter of five demands is ...
11 September 2024 The StatesmanTo help registering complaints the East Burdwan residents may not need to visit any police station anymore. Instead, the victims would require just to click ‘Bharosa’, an android app.Bharosa, as the SP, East Burdwan, Amandeep Singh explained, “Is designed ...
11 September 2024 The StatesmanChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday reached out to agitating junior doctors, inviting them to the state secretariat at Nabanna for a meeting to resolve the impasse amid their ongoing protest over the R G Kar issue, but they ...
11 September 2024 The StatesmanBirbhum district police has started a helpline number and a dedicated tourist police service at Unesco’s World Cultural Heritage site Santiniketan from Saturday.These 18 Tourists Police personnel will be deployed in front of Sonajhuri and in front of the ...
11 September 2024 The StatesmanChief secretary Manoj Pant requested the agitating junior doctors to resume work before 5 pm tomorrow, following the Supreme Court directive.The junior doctors are on strike demanding justice and stringent punishment of the persons involved in the rape and ...
11 September 2024 The StatesmanChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday threatened to take action against private hospitals for denying admission of Abhijit Mondal, officer-in-charge (OC) of Tala police station (PS).Miss Banerjee, while addressing an administrative meeting at the state secretariat, Nabanna, today asked ...
11 September 2024 The StatesmanOver seven lakh trucks, including big and small ones are anticipated to stay off the roads of West Bengal for 72 hours starting from 11 September.The strike has been called by the members of Federation of West Bengal Truck ...
11 September 2024 The StatesmanWith West Bengal heading towards winter in few more weeks and the pollution associated with the season, around 75 per cent of residents of a survey conducted by Sustainability Mobility Network (SMN) in Kolkata and Asansol felt there was ...
11 September 2024 The StatesmanAfter the Supreme Court hearing on Monday, where it asked the protesting doctors to join work, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee too urged doctors to return to work. Amid protests throughout the state, she also denied offering money ...
11 September 2024 The StatesmanLeader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari today accused Trinamul Congress (TMC)-backed miscreants for “mass molestation” against women protestors, who gathered at Naihati in North 24-Parganas seeking justice for R G Kar student last night.He alleged that this was unprecedented as ...
10 September 2024 The StatesmanVicky Rabidas (30) died on the spot and Mohammed Lodon (30) is critically injured and has been rescued near the No. 12 loco line gate of Kulti Growth Works of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) today morning and ...
10 September 2024 The StatesmanA fatal accident occurred late at night in the city when a transformer-loaded truck rammed into a stationary car on the road.Police said that the incident took place near New Town’s Biswa Bangla Sarani. One person died and three ...
10 September 2024 The StatesmanTrinamul Congres leaders urged the agitating junior doctors, on strike, demanding justice and stringent punishment of those involved in the alleged rape and murder of a doctor at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital to resume duties before ...
10 September 2024 The StatesmanThe agitating junior doctors are disheartened and upset with the Supreme Court (SC) directive to resume work within 5 pm Tuesday.Hours after the SC directive the chief minister appealed to the agitators to join work in government medical colleges ...
10 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Calcutta Heart Clinic & Hospital in Salt Lake, celebrating its golden jubilee year from 8 September, 2024 to 8 September, next year, has added another facility in its list of services, which is sure to gladden the hearts ...
10 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials investigating the case for financial irregularities in state-run R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata have got some initial clues of a part of the ill-gotten proceeds being invested illegally in the real ...
10 September 2024 The StatesmanTrinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Jawhar Sircar, a retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, on Sunday, announced his decision to resign from the Rajya Sabha as a protest against the ghastly rape and murder of a woman doctor of ...
9 September 2024 The StatesmanA night before the crucial hearing on Monday at the Supreme Court, thousands of protesters gathered West Bengal to protest against the rape and murder of the junior doctor at R.G Kar Medical College & Hospital.The call was for ...
9 September 2024 The StatesmanTrinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Jawhar Sircar — a retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer — has turned down West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s request to reconsider his decision to resign from the Upper House of the Parliament ...
9 September 2024 The StatesmanActor turned politician and TMC MP Shatrughan Sinha has condemned the RG Kar Medical College incident in Kolkata, calling it a despicable event that no one would support. However, he decried the politicisation of the incident.Sinha stated: “The incident ...
9 September 2024 The StatesmanThe parents of the woman junior doctor of R.G Kar Medical College and Hospital on Sunday accused Kolkata Police of attempting to destroy evidence since the beginning of the case.“The government, administration and the police have not cooperated with ...
9 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Trinamool Congress leadership seems to be maintaining a cautious approach in reacting to its Rajya Sabha member Jawhar Sircar’s resignation announcement on Sunday.Sircar announced his resignation from the Upper House of Parliament as a mark of protest against ...
9 September 2024 The StatesmanJust hours after Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Jawhar Sircar announced to quit the party over the R. G. Kar issue, BJP’s central observer for West Bengal Amit Malviya on Saturday said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the Kolkata ...
9 September 2024 The StatesmanTrinamul Congress leader Kunal Ghosh has accused party MP from Ghatal Dipak Adhikari (Dev) on Saturday of removing the chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s name from a plaque at the state-run Ghatal super speciality hospital in the actor-MP’s Ghatal Lok ...
9 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Haripal police, on information, on Friday night rescued a teenage girl student found lying in a senseless and semi-nude state at Gupinagar, near Haripal BDO office.The police rushed her to Haripal gramin hospital.The local witnesses said they spotted ...
9 September 2024 The StatesmanThe West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC) on Saturday issued show-cause notice to Prof (Dr) Sandip Ghosh, former principal of the R G Kar Medical College Hospital and an accused in the alleged financial irregularities in the state-run hospital, and ...
9 September 2024 The StatesmanIn a move following former urban development minister and CPM leader Asok Bhattacharya’s efforts, BJP MLA Anandamay Barman of Matigara-Naxalbari has initiated a proposal to establish a new municipality in the Shibmandir area.This would cover two gram panchayats, encompassing ...
9 September 2024 The StatesmanThe assistant sub-inspector of police and the CID’s bomb squad constable along with two others, arrested in the sensational Rs 1 crore highway robbery case were sent to jail custody for five days by the court today as the ...
9 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Bharatiya Janata Party’s national IT cell in-charge and West Bengal co-observer, Amit Malviya, today accused the West Bengal government of a massive cover-up in the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital rape and murder case. He demanded ...
9 September 2024 The StatesmanThe artists from Serampore Betarbani, mostly from the Hooghly district, stepped out on the roads on Saturday condemning the brutal rape and murder of the lady doctor at R G Kar hospital and demanding faster justice.The director of Serampore ...
9 September 2024 The StatesmanThere was trouble on a flight before it could cross Kolkata’s skies on its way to Mumbai. According to airport sources, Thai Lion Air flight SL 218 was travelling from Bangkok to Mumbai. It had almost reached Kolkata’s airspace, ...
8 September 2024 The StatesmanChief secretary Manoj Pant today issued a strict directive to government officials, employees and police, asking them to concentrate on their work diligently and finish pending work on a war footing.The directive also asked them to be more dedicated ...
8 September 2024 The StatesmanCivic volunteers in the state would undergo training by the state and city police for maintaining discipline and learn proper use of law and other dos and don’ts within the framework of law.As sources in the state home department ...
8 September 2024 The StatesmanAsansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate (ADPC) has busted a fake firearms racket and seized various documents from Coke Oven police station area in Durgapur last evening.Abhishek Gupta, DCP (east) of ADPC said that after arresting one person from Kulti police ...
8 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Left Front is set to launch a new protest over the R G Kar issue.In the coming week, the Left Front has called for a Lalbazar march, and it has been decided in a meeting last night that ...
8 September 2024 The StatesmanA youth, Vikram Bhattacharya from Vivek Nagar, Konnagar died at R G Kar hospital in Kolkata, allegedly due to negligence.The patient, Vikram was critically injured when a dumper ran over his legs. He received critical injuries on both the ...
8 September 2024 The StatesmanA resident of Samastipur in Bihar drowned in the Damodar river in Durgapur last evening. His body was retrieved today morning.Kamalesh Choudhury (30), used to stay in Ashish Nagar Navin Pally, under Coke Oven police station. The NDRF officials ...
8 September 2024 The StatesmanThis Sunday will see another spontaneous protest on streets of Kolkata, suburbs and across the country, a call to ‘reclaim the night’.The call was given yet again by Rimjhim Singh, whose 14 August night call turned out to be ...
8 September 2024 The StatesmanA man had procured a ‘purported’ death certificate of his wife, a year ahead of her death and the police have arrested the husband and two of his aides in connection with the forgery, today.The accused, in connivance with ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanA complication has arisen in the Raj Bhavan regarding the anti-rape Bill. Governor C V Ananda Bose has expressed dissatisfaction with the state government’s handling of the Bill, according to sources close to him.A Raj Bhavan official said that ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanA group of people, who have been agitating, demanding jobs, have vandalized a factory in Kanksha of West Burdwan district today.For the second consecutive day today, the locals have agitated in the private iron and steel factory in Kanksha ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanFive years, three major mishaps, several precautionary evacuations, fear of loss of assets or even life almost every now and then – the last leg of the East-West Metro corridor at Bowbazar has become a never ending saga of ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanChief minister Mamata Banerjee will hold the administrative review meeting on Monday. Chief secretary Manoj Pant, Home Secretary Nandini Chakraborty, all additional chief secretaries, principal secretaries and departmental secretaries are supposed to attend the meeting.All the ministers have been ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanGovernment of India has reintroduced the Open Market Sales Scheme (Domestic) starting from August 2024 for Financial Year 2024-25 for price stabilization and increasing the affordability of the rice. The e-auction is to be conducted on 11 September for ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanStudents of Visva-Bharati University (VBU) are agitating and gheraoed the Santiniketan police station after a third year student had an unnatural death.Anamika Singh, a third year student of Silpa Sadan of Visva-Bharati University and a resident of Varanasi in ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanAmong the dedicated railways workforce, a talented voice shines bright. Rimi Chakraborty, a gifted artist and dancer, presently posted as technician-I at the office of principal chief mechanical engineer at Eastern Railway headquarters.Rimi’s artistic journey has graced renowned galleries ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanA 28 year-old youth of Hooghly district died at R G Kar Medical College Hospital on Friday.No complaint has been lodged with the hospital authorities so far by the deceased’s family.Bikram Bhattacharya of Konnagar in Hooghly met with a ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanPolicemen in disguise of cyber experts looted Rs 1.01 crore in cash from a railway vendor on the NH-19 in Durgapur allegedly at gunpoint last evening.Soon after a complaint from a Delhi-based agency was received, the Asansol Durgapur Police ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanSiliguri MLA, Dr Sankar Ghosh, who also is a teacher, expressed deep concern today over the declining standards in education, blaming educators for straying from their fundamental role in shaping students’ character.Speaking at a Teachers’ Day event hosted by ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanTrinamul Congress today lambasted the CBI after the investigating officer and the counsel of the agency did not turn up at the Sealdah Court, where the prime accused in the rape and murder at RG Kar Medical College and ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Supreme Court, on Friday, will hear the petition filed by Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital, challenging the Calcutta High Court order of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the financial ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanBangladesh’s tax collection body, the National Board of Revenue, has reduced taxes on imports of onion and potato to rein in soaring prices of essential kitchen items.The board has waived the 5 per cent regulatory duty on onion imports ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea filed by Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of Kolkata’s R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital where a woman doctor was found raped and murdered last month, challenging the CBI ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanMembers of various organizations, representing different sections of society, raised concerns over the ‘selective silence’ on the lynching of the South 24-Parganas youth in Haryana by cow vigilante group on 27 August and urged people to protest against the ...
6 September 2024 The StatesmanThe dean of students’ affairs at North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NBMC&H), Dr Sandeep Sengupta, along with his deputy Dr Sudipta Sil, resigned last night after mounting pressure from junior doctors, postgraduate trainees, and teachers.The protest was fuelled ...
6 September 2024 The StatesmanAn office assistant of a government office was placed under suspension today by the district magistrate, West Burdwan for his ‘unauthorized’ participation in Nabanna Avijan called by an outfit titled ‘Chhatra Samaj’ on 28 August.Subhankar Banerjee, an upper division ...
6 September 2024 The StatesmanA day after the gruesome rape and murder of the 31-year-old postgraduate trainee (PGT) doctor at R G Kar Medical College Hospital on 9 August, it was Prof (Dr) Sandip Ghosh, former principal of the college, who had written ...
6 September 2024 The StatesmanTrinamul Congress leaders today lambasted the CBI and urged the agency to break silence and make a statement regarding the progress of investigation to remove all confusion.State education minister Bratya Basu and Dr Shashi Panja, state minister for women ...
6 September 2024 The StatesmanOn the occasion of Teachers’ Day, chief minister Mamata Banerjee paid rich tributes to Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and respect to the teaching community.The day is the birthday of educationist and former President Dr S Radhakrishnan.She said teachers are the ...
6 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Calcutta High Court on Thursday asked a petitioner, who filed a PIL challenging the hike in the annual donations to different community Puja committees on the occasion of the state’s biggest and most popular festival, to make a ...
6 September 2024 The StatesmanState’s director of medical education today withdrew the status of senior resident of Dr Birupaksha Biswas, who was forced to vacate the Burdwan Medical College & Hospital yesterday, after 13 months of his transfer order issued, in August 2023.Dr ...
6 September 2024 The StatesmanBratya Basu, state education minister today took a dig at a section of the playwrights and theatre personalities, who are returning government awards in the wake of R G Kar Medical college rape and murder case.The minister, who is ...
6 September 2024 The StatesmanIn a bizarre incident, the security staff of Kazi Nazrul Islam Airport in Andal, during baggage screening seized a firearm and bullets from two passengers of Birbhum district, about to board a Mumbai-bound flight and handed over them to ...
6 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials probing the ghastly rape and murder of a woman doctor at the R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital have found discrepancies in the statements of Sanjay Roy, the arrested civil volunteer, during ...
6 September 2024 The StatesmanThree members of a family from Kolkata have drowned in Damodar river near Kulti in West Burdwan district today while bathing and taking selfies. The locals have managed to save two others.Locals said that five people, including a woman, ...
5 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Calcutta High Court has granted bail to two accused arrested in the murder case of Congress councillor Tapan Kandu case in Purulia, probed by the CBI.However, the high court has imposed restrictions and has directed both the accused ...
5 September 2024 The StatesmanTwo persons were arrested from a star hotel off EM Bypass on charges of molestation last night. Police said that a complaint of molestation has been filed at a luxury hotel in Kolkata.The incident occurred on Tuesday night at ...
5 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Citizen’s Forum’s sit-in for the last three days outside the CBI office at CGO Complex in Salt Lake for getting justice for Tilottama came to an end today. The forum members said they stand by the protesting doctors ...
5 September 2024 The StatesmanSenior Congress leader and president of Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury today has written a letter to the chief justice of Supreme Court requesting that the Kolkata police commissioner and director general of police (DGP) be ...
5 September 2024 The StatesmanAmidst the uproar over the R G Kar incident, a shocking attack on a teenage girl has occurred at Prafullanagar in Belgharia this afternoon.The girl was attacked with a sharp weapon in broad daylight on an open street, after ...
5 September 2024 The StatesmanThe controversial former Principal of Kolkata’s R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, where a junior doctor was found raped and murdered last month, has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the alleged ...
5 September 2024 The StatesmanAfter imposing a ban on entry of Dr Avik De, the controversial aide of now arrested, former R G Kar Medical College principal Sandip Ghosh yesterday, the Burdwan Medical College & Hospital today released Dr Birupaksha Biswas, another close ...
5 September 2024 The StatesmanCoal India is expanding the reach with new hospital partnerships for Thalassemia and Aplastic Anemia Treatments under our CSR initiative Thalassemia Bal Sewa Yojana. An MoU was signed with three leading organizations in Bengaluru, the HCG Foundation, the Aster ...
5 September 2024 The Statesman