[ad_1] KOLKATA/NEW DELHI: Baharampur’s political weight cannot be understood without its past. Established in 1757 following the Battle of Plassey, the town became one of the earliest administrative and military bases of the East India Company in India. Over time, it evolved into a commercial hub drawing European trading interests, including the Dutch and the […]
[ad_1] KOLKATA: Bengal voters under adjudication waited through Monday for the promised first supplementary electoral roll as Election Commission kept revising the deadline before finally pushing it to midnight. The list with around 29 lakh names was finally uploaded at 11.45pm.Supreme Court, which had on March 10 ordered the publication of supplementary voters’ lists, will […]
[ad_1] Adhikari, Sen (File photos) KOLKATA: West Bengal BJP leader of opposition Suvendu Ahikari on Monday questioned Nobel laureate Amartya Sen‘s “contribution” to the state, igniting a row as the governing TMC and CPM slammed Adhikari.His remarks came days after Sen, who received an SIR hearing notice recently, said that the verification process was being […]
[ad_1] KOLKATA: The National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, has confirmed Nipah, a viral disease with high mortality, in both samples sent from Bengal. The samples were taken from two nurses of a Barasat hospital whose condition remain critical. A house staff at a Burdwan hospital, who came in close contact with one of the […]
[ad_1] S Jaishankar at a felicitation ceremony at IIM Calcutta KOLKATA: External affairs minister (EAM) S Jaishankar said on Saturday that the world was looking beyond the US and China to other countries and blocs for trade and energy as they try to hedge against contingencies.Calling the US the “long-time underwriter of the contemporary system”, […]
[ad_1] KOLKATA: Several hundred Bangladeshi nationals – men, women and children – were intercepted by BSF at Hakimpur check post near Swarupnagar, in North 24 Parganas, on Monday morning. They were allegedly attempting to cross the border to return home amid growing fears linked to the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls.Personnel of BSF’s 143rd Battalion […]
[ad_1] KOLKATA: A four-year-old boy headed to Malaysia for a holiday with his family on Aug 12 was attacked by a Customs dog at Kolkata airport resulting in deep scratches on his back and leading to his hospitalisation. The family had to scuttle its trip and on Aug 19 lodged an FIR with NSCBI airport […]
[ad_1] One of the accused, Manojit Mishra KOLKATA: A student was allegedly raped inside the premises of a Kolkata-based law college on the night of June 25, leading to the arrest of three men, two students and a staff member who is also an alumnus of the institution.Police identified the accused as Manojit Mishra (31), […]
