Kolkata: Visva-Bharati University has formed a world heritage cell comprising 18 members to maintain, monitor and manage heritage matters related to the World Heritage Site.In Sep 2023, Santiniketan received the Unesco heritage tag. Sources said this was perhaps the ...
20 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bank Bachao Desh Bachao Manch, which comprises different stakeholders of the banking industry, wrote to CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday, urging her to intervene to stop the possible shifting of SBI’s Centralised Global Back Office from Kolkata.“We wish ...
20 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Eden Gardens track had produced a lot of turn during the matches of the recently-held ODI World Cup. With the IPL knocking on the door, the question is whether the iconic ground will continue churning out low-scoring games. ...
20 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The KMC buildings department on Tuesday served notices to promoters of six illegal buildings that are located close to the collapsed building. Among these buildings in Azhar Molla Bagan, one is tilting and needs to be razed to ...
20 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Mohammad Wasim, the promoter of the ill-fated building at Garden Reach, failed to find any lawyer to appear for him while he was produced before the chief judicial magistrate at the Alipore court. A lawyer from the Legal ...
20 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday didn’t allow a petition against the demolition order of a building in the Port area to be executed on Wednesday even as the petitioner pleaded that the order had been passed without ...
20 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: An official of the KMC’s buildings department said builders of the G+4 structure had flouted all regulations and construction norms. “There are two other buildings that have been similarly constructed. One building has tilted. Others, with poor foundation, ...
20 March 2024 Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India appointed Sanjay Mukherjee as the new director general of police (DGP) of West Bengal on Tuesday. Sanjay is a 1989 batch IPS officer.Earlier, Vivek Sahay replaced Rajeev Kumar as the DGP of ...
19 March 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A transgender government school teacher lodged a complaint at Rahara police station, alleging that she felt ‘discriminated’ by the behaviour of the headmistress. The teacher, who had also staged a sit-in demonstration on the school premises on Friday ...
19 March 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Syed Mustafa Ali (48) was unable to fathom whether he should thank his luck or cry over his destiny as a last-minute nudge by his wife to head to the market saved him when the neighbouring illegal building ...
19 March 2024 Times of IndiaMy faith in Allah has increased more than ever after my son came out alive after remaining stuck under the debris of the collapsed five-storied building for 10 hours straight. I can't believe how lucky I am.My son, Salahuddin ...
19 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Following the directives issued by the Calcutta High Court, a team from Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) along with a team of about 100 police personnel on Monday finally managed to initiate work to demolish an illegally set-up two ...
19 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Clifford from the stable of Neil Darashah is likely to strike in the 55EXCH Scratch Lottery Handicap to be run over a sprint at the RCTC on Tuesday. The four-year-old gelding who stumbled last time out will be ...
19 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Moinul Haque (23) survived 10 hours of excruciating pain as he got trapped in the debris at the Garden Reach crash site and had his right leg stuck between concrete chunks. When he was pulled out around 10am, ...
19 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The 5.4km new Metro corridor in the Ruby-New Garia and 8 km Joka-Majerhat stretches had less number of commuters during peak hours on Monday as compared to the East-West Metro thrown open to the public last Friday.One of ...
19 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A curious case of passenger mismatch has emerged underground with Metro Railway officials noticing a significant disparity in the number of people buying tickets to ride in the East-West Metro and the actual riders on its trains. That ...
19 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who is recuperating from a head injury herself, rushed to the Garden Reach building collapse site on Monday. She vowed to stand by the affected families and asked the state administration to take stern ...
19 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The ‘cottage industry’ of illegal buildings in the Garden Reach-Metiabruz belt thrives on its own cash-economy. The G+4-storey building which collapsed on Monday had four flats on every floor. The promoter charged Rs 1,600 per square feet for ...
19 March 2024 Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: Election Comission on Monday ordered the removal of West Bengal Director General of Police (DGP), news agency PTI reported.The DGP of Bengal was also removed during the 2016 assembly elections in the state and the 2019 general ...
18 March 2024 Times of IndiaSILIGURI/KOLKATA: BJP's central leadership has summoned Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar and opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari to New Delhi to attend Monday's Central Election Committee meeting to finalise the remaining 23 Lok Sabha candidates for Bengal. On Sunday morning, ...
18 March 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA/HOOGHLY: Lok Sabha election candidates in the city took blood donation, cricket and shopping routes to kick off their campaigns on the first Sunday after the announcement of election dates.Trinamool Congress's Kolkata South candidate Mala Roy led the way ...
18 March 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: At least two people died and seven were injured after an under-construction five-storeyed building collapsed in the Garden Reach area of Kolkata on Sunday night.Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim said more people might still be trapped under the debris. ...
18 March 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: With the number of sensitive booths running into a few thousands, the Election Commission plans to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to spot and act on electoral malpractices at such booths in this year's Lok Sabha elections.An official at ...
18 March 2024 Times of IndiaBONGAON/MALDA: Faced with a spreading unrest in Matua-dominated pockets, specifically targeted against schedule 1A of the CAA gazette notification, which asks for Bangladeshi documents to apply for Indian citizenship, junior Union minister and Bongaon MP Shantanu Thakur has said ...
18 March 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A post from veteran BJP leader Tathagata Roy's X handle - that whether a person has been circumcised "must" be a test to determine the religious identity of a male seeking citizenship under CAA - has raised a ...
18 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: To ensure safety of passengers travelling through East-West Metro’s under-river stretch, rakes will be sent for maintenance every 72 hours. Twice a week, on Wednesday night and Sunday afternoon, the two rakes used on the Esplanade-Howrah Maidan stretch ...
18 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two moderate spells of rain on consecutive evenings knocked the minimum temperature down three-and-a-half notches to 23° C on Sunday, said the Met department. The Met office said while the minimum temperature may stagnate, the maximum is likely ...
18 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: City pet lovers have raised their voices against the authorities of Banabitan Biodiversity Park, popularly known as Salt Lake Central Park, for neglecting stray dogs living inside the park, many of whom have been left to starve. There ...
18 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Jadavpur University has bagged the first prize in the engineering and technology category at the international student research convention ‘Anveshan’ organised by the Association of Indian Universities. JU also came third in basic sciences and social sciences, Humanities ...
18 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two hundred students of Mahadevi Birla World Academy, Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, Responsible Charity and Ektara cheered loudly as they watched the first-ever performance of Denmark’s Aarhus-based Don Gnu group’s walk-man act at GD Birla Sabhaghar on Friday morning. ...
18 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Four teenagers studying in class XII of different city schools have come forward to address various issues that concern many elders in the society. From creating sculptures and paintings to combat gender discrimination, starting a social organisation for ...
18 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A week after two cloth bag vending machines were installed at Salt Lake’s CA market, the initiative received an overwhelming response with several residents of surrounding blocks purchasing the eco-friendly bags. The success at CA market — the ...
18 March 2024 Times of IndiaDARJEELING/KOLKATA: The Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) will to re-introduce paragliding in the Darjeeling from the second week of April. The adventure tourism facility, which was first introduced in 2011, had remained stalled since 2017 due to the Gorkhaland agitation.Dawa ...
17 March 2024 Times of IndiaBURDWAN: Cattle were spotted travelling luxury class by locals who stopped a bus from Bihar at Chakdighi area in Memari, East Burdwan district, on Friday.The luxury bus filled with dozens of bovines was travelling on the Grand Trunk Road. ...
17 March 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Bengal will vote in seven phases over a 44-day period in what is largely a replication of the 2019 Lok Sabha template, with polling kicking off on April 19 in north Bengal's Cooch Behar, Alipurduar and Jalpaiguri and ...
17 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Metro tourism soared on the first weekend as thousands took a fun ride to experience the under-river tunnel journey on Saturday, a day after Kolkata scripted history by operating a transportation tunnel below the Hooghly.On Saturday, it was ...
17 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The NKDA has initiated the process to engage an agency that will capture, sterilise and vaccinate stray dogs in New Town and also treat injured or sick animals.Around 4,000 stray dogs roam the streets of the township. “A ...
17 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A whopping 70,204 commuters took India’s first under-river ride on the first day, more than twice the number that had boarded the trains when the first phase of the East-West Metro had started in Salt Lake in 2020. ...
17 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state on Saturday sanctioned Rs 1.7 crore to KMDA to restore the blacktop of the carriageway of the east-bound as well as Garia ramps of Maa flyover and Rs 1.4 crore for the repair and replacement of ...
17 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A large percentage of office-goers switching their commute route to under-river will free up Howrah bridge to a considerable extent, making it easier for the custodian of the bridge, SMP Kolkata, to undertake a comprehensive health study, scheduled ...
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