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Kolkata: Park Street will turn into a large arena for Christmas gala from Wednesday afternoon, but under the watchful eyes of police with 2,000 personnel being assigned to Park Street along and another 500 for the periphery. Not taking any chance what with the Bangladesh violence and the recent terror attacks in Delhi, Lalbazar has also set up four watchtowers and will deploy drones.Quick Response...

NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress claimed on Monday that the govt had pushed for a discussion on 'Vande Mataram' in the Parliament only with an eye on West Bengal elections, calling BJP's commitment to the national song a "badly scripted comedy".With BJP making a determined bid to unseat CM Mamata Banerjee, TMC MPs Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar and Mahua Moitra slammed the party for its "divisive" politics and...

KOLKATA: South Dum Dum Municipality has started using drones to check rooftops of buildings and spray larvicide in the worst dengue-affected localities under its jurisdiction.Civic officials said that the main objective behind using drones is to identify stagnant water and kill mosquito larvae by spraying larvicide at the dengue-prone localities where the civic body workers were finding it difficult to...

GURGAON: A 33-year-old man was reportedly assaulted by bouncers at a bar in Gurgaon's Sector 29 Market, resulting in the loss of vision in one eye, as well as other injuries, according to the police on Monday. The victim also claimed that the assailants behaved inappropriately with a female friend who was accompanying him.Sumer Singh Vij, a resident of Maruti Vihar Sector 28, lodged a complaint stating...

NEW DELHI: Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan reviewed the operational preparedness in the eastern sectorover the weekend, amid heightened tensions with China that has seen India shore up defences in the strategically-vulnerable Siliguri Corridor among other measures along the entire frontier.Gen Chauhan visited ‘forward areas’ in north Bengal and the Hasimara air base, where a squadron of...