Dr Manas Bhuniya, state environment minister, has urged teachers, students and nature lovers to work together to stop the rampant onslaught on nature and find out ways and means to preserve the diverse biodiversity in Bengal. He was addressing ...
24 May 2023 StatesmanENT doctors at SSKM Hospital, eastern India"s premier government super specialist institute for post graduate medical education and research, on Monday gave a new lease of life to a six-year-old male child at a time when two other state-run ...
24 May 2023 StatesmanTrinamul Congress has demanded interrogation of Suvendu Adhikari in connection with the deposit of Rs 50 lakh at Contani Municipality by the owner of Saradha chit fund, Sudipto Sen. Sen had written a letter to the magistrate from jail ...
24 May 2023 StatesmanChief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said that he will meet chief minister Mamata Banerjee on 23 May and then presidents of all opposition parties across the country in the coming days to seek support against the Centre bringing ...
23 May 2023 StatesmanThe first batch of 326 Haj pilgrims for Saudi Arabia flew from the city airport today. Minister of urban development and municipal affairs and housing Firhad Hakim was present at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International airport to see ...
23 May 2023 StatesmanA unique exhibition on Scenes from Santiniketan and Benodebehari"s hand scrolls was inaugurated in the city on Saturday. This is for the first time when Scenes from Santiniketan, the earliest and longest hand scroll painted by Benodebehari Mukherjee depicts ...
23 May 2023 StatesmanState, now has decided to procure 1.10 lakh MT of the Boro yield and the process, as Mondal stated, is slated to begin within a week or two, opening 35 procurement centres East Burdwan, considered Bengal"s rice bowl, is ...
23 May 2023 StatesmanThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will pull down dangerously dilapidated buildings before the rainy season as they as pose serious threat to lives. There are more than 3,000 insecure structures in the city and out of these nearly 1,200 ...
23 May 2023 StatesmanThe Ist rank in the state in Madrasha Fazil examination goes to Fahim Aktar of Furfura Sharif Haldar Para, results of which were declared yesterday. A student of Furfura Fatehia Senior Madrasah, Fahim Aktar ranks first in the state, ...
23 May 2023 StatesmanThe officials of the different central investigation are unhappy over being used as tools of vendetta politics by the Union government or BJP, a senior member of the West Bengal cabinet said on Sunday. "A number of central agency ...
23 May 2023 StatesmanTraveling to Kolkata by 28896 Puri-Howrah Vande Bharat Express, I had a harrowing experience. The train is two days old. The train was cruising at its normal speed of 128 kmph. When the train was around 40 km ahead ...
23 May 2023 StatesmanReligious tourists in the city longing to embark on a journey to the "Jyotirlinga" can now fulfil their wishes in a hassle-free manner. The first Bharat Gaurav Tourist circuit train covering "Jyotirlinga" temple destinations was flagged off from Kolkata ...
22 May 2023 StatesmanTrinamul Congress MLA and former chairman of the rogi kalyan samiti (RKS) urged people to "boycott SSKM Hospital" after a patient, close to him, was denied admission to the heal hub on Saturday night, virtually exposing the state of ...
22 May 2023 StatesmanThe Ramakrishna Mission schools in the state have done well in the Madhyamik results, declared on Friday. In encouraging news, 13 of the students from Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Vidyamandir, Malda, secured places in the merit list of the Madhyamik ...
22 May 2023 StatesmanPutting efforts to curb issues pertaining to illegal construction or encroachment on roads gifted to the civic body, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has decided to provide information on sanction plans details to the borough chairmen and the councillors of ...
22 May 2023 StatesmanWith its most recent campaign supporting trans inclusiveness, an international coffee house chain in India, Starbucks, has sparked off controversy and fueled the current discussion around LGBTQI++ rights in India. The ad shows that Arpita, a transgender woman, meets her ...
22 May 2023 StatesmanThe Special CBI Court in Asansol has granted the request of the central investigating agency to interrogate Sehgal Hussein at Tihar Jail in the cattle smuggling case, while extending the bail period of Abdul Latif. Bodyguard of Anubrata Mondal, ...
22 May 2023 StatesmanOver nine hours passed before Trinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee walked out of the CBI office at Nizam Palace on Saturday. He walked out a little before 9 pm. He challenged the CBI to arrest him if ...
21 May 2023 StatesmanFive students from the district have found their place of pride in the state merit list. Three students from Mahesh Sri Ramakrishna Ashram Vivekananda Vidyalaya have ranked, Jishnu Ghosh, 7th, Shubra Sadhukhan, 9th and Ayandeep Sengupta, 10th. Prantik Ganguly ...
21 May 2023 StatesmanIn a major shocker for the sleuths investigating the explosion at an illegal firecracker factory at Egra in West Bengal’s East Midnapore district that claimed nine lives, the prime accused and the owner of the said factory, Krishnapada Bag ...
21 May 2023 StatesmanThey are in panic with the success of Abhishek’s ‘nabo jowar’ and that’s why they’ve tricked and summoned him to Kolkata. I can assure you, this new wave won’t stop, somehow it will take the shape of a flood ...
21 May 2023 StatesmanA massive drive to create awareness on low haemoglobin has been taken up by Rotary International. Rotary Club of Salt Lake Metropolitan and Rotary International District 3291 have taken up a project to screen, educate and treat women suffering ...
21 May 2023 StatesmanAfter streamlining hawking in Gariahat Market, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation is now to be more stringent with hawkers in the New Market area. Going stricter with hawkers in New Market, the civic body would not allow any hawking on ...
21 May 2023 StatesmanThis year"s Madhyamik results were declared today which showed that the pass percentage is 86.15 per cent, a tad lower than last year"s 86.60 per cent. Announcing the results, president of West Bengal Board of Secondary Education Ramanuj Ganguly ...
20 May 2023 StatesmanUpholding a previous order, the Calcutta High Court on Thursday empowered the central agencies to question Trinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee in connection with the multi-crore recruitment scam in West Bengal. The single-judge Bench of Justice Amrita ...
19 May 2023 StatesmanA photo exhibition and seminar is being held at the Indian Museum titled Imprints of Indian Culture in Vietnam to mark the 133 birth anniversary of former President Ho Chi Minh. The event is being organized by the ministry ...
19 May 2023 StatesmanNot the birds, for sure, it"s the time for the fishes to be caged to help their sustained growth under the supervision and intensive care of the aquatic scientists in Bankura. Cage aquaculture fishing has been reintroduced in the ...
19 May 2023 StatesmanRampant construction of illegal buildings during the Left Front regime has become a major concern for the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) as experts said these structures may collapse any day leading to disaster. The matter came to head when ...
19 May 2023 StatesmanComing down heavily on the BJP-controlled Centre, Trinamul Congress today held the saffron party responsible for the deaths of 9 persons, who had worked in the illegal fire cracker factory in Egra in East Midnapore as they had joined ...
19 May 2023 StatesmanNo religion in India preaches hatred to us, be it Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism, Jainism etc, said TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee at Panagarh Bazar Gurudwara today. The TMC MP arrived at West Burdwan to take part in his ...
18 May 2023 StatesmanThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation will hold a meeting with the CESC tomorrow on the alleged power theft in Ekbalpore area when two women were electrocuted to death last Sunday. The meeting is to be attended by the KMC mayor ...
18 May 2023 StatesmanNoted film director Ashoke Viswanathan has taken the responsibility upon himself of creating a pocket dictionary for students of film studies and film buffs. Masters of Cinema is an experimental project, which will also be like a film essay. ...
18 May 2023 StatesmanChildren would be able to catch glimpses of the challenging journey of technological evolution in a more vivid manner this International Museum Day. The Birla Industrial and Technological Museum (BITM) is all set to unveil a new gallery named ...
18 May 2023 StatesmanThe Presidency University Magazine has been published after a period of eight years. The latest issue was inaugurated by professors Sandip Kumar Mondal, Abdus Samad Gayen and Upal Chakrabarty. In the past luminaries such as Satyajit Ray, Indian scholar, ...
18 May 2023 StatesmanHealthcare professionals completing three years" training can"t be recognized as doctors, a 14-member expert panel headed by Dr Sukumar Mukherjee, leading general medicine specialist in the city, felt. The committee comprising medical experts associated with different state-run and private ...
18 May 2023 StatesmanIn a rare incident twins from Birbhum have secured first and second positions in the Madhyamik examination held by Visva-Bharati. The results were announced on Monday. Roddur Ahmed secured the first position with 870 out of 900 marks that ...
18 May 2023 StatesmanVikash Mishra, younger brother of fugitive Vinay Mishra has been released on bail by the Special CBI Court in Asansol today in connection with the alleged multi-crore coal smuggling scam. Four days ago he was sent to CBI custody ...
18 May 2023 StatesmanState secretariat Nabanna sought a detailed report on the incident in connection with a dad carrying his five month-old bab's body in a bag while travelling in a bus in Kaliaganj in North Dinajpur district from the district chief ...
17 May 2023 StatesmanThe West Bengal government, by an ordinance issued on Monday, has made changes in the formation of search committees meant for appointment of Vice Chancellors in state universities. However, the change has created a major controversy as in the ...
17 May 2023 StatesmanAn evening thunderstorm, accompanied by rain lashing the city, brought respite from the blistering heat and humidity while leading to the injury of a person who was unfortunate to come under a falling tree. Kolkata and its adjoining districts ...
17 May 2023 Statesman