Kolkata: Bengal's cultural fraternity has strongly condemned the vandalism of Chhayanaut office in Dhanmondi — one of Bangladesh's oldest heritage-rich cultural organisations — in the wake of the death of Inquilab Moncho neta Osman Hadi. Chhayanaut was founded in 1961 specifically to defy a ban by Pakistan's military rules on celebrating Rabindranath Tagore's birth centenary. It became a symbol of...
KOLKATA: Supreme Court on Thursday extended the deadline for completion of teachers’ recruitment process by state School Service Commission till Aug 31, 2026.The apex court had earlier directed SSC to complete the recruitment for the posts of assistant teachers for classes 9 to 12 by Dec 31. Appearing for SSC, Kalyan Banerjee argued that multiple litigations had slowed down the interview and...
Kolkata: The increasing demand for spaces to exhibit audio-visual content and the rising interest in small group movie viewings has prompted the state govt to launch a mini cinema policy. This policy was announced by chief minister Mamata Banerjee at the Business & Industry Conclave on Thursday. Tollywood believes this is the first of its kind in India by a state govt. It is expected to enhance the...
Kolkata: The SIT probing the Lionel Messi event fiasco on Dec 13 is focusing on particular blocks of the Salt Lake stadium from where they believe the "vandalism" was initiated. The cops are now certain that the first round of bottle throwing began from the lower tiers of the AD cutout of the stadium, close to the entry and exit that Messi used that day."The CCTV footage from this block was sent to...
The mental heath workshop at Dassani Studio KOLKATA: The Federation of Cine Technicians’ Workers of Eastern India (FCTWEI), in collaboration with SSKM Hospital, launched its first sensitization workshops to support Tollywood professionals facing mental health challenges recently.This initiative comes in the wake of two cinematographers' recent suicides due to depression. Psychiatrists believe these...
KOLKATA: When 17-year-old Vedang Sharma missed out on tickets for Lionel Messi’s Kolkata appearance, he did what any diehard fan would do: kept chasing his dream. The Class XII student at Sri Sri Academy flew to Hyderabad and what followed was pure magic.Happy to get a seat on the stands of Hyderabad’s Uppal stadium, Vedang ended up donning the colours of the Messi All Stars team and shaking hands...
Kolkata: A journalist who was missing for nearly a decade, Subhajit Chandra, finally returned to his family in Kolkata on Dec 13, after spending years at a concentration camp in Thailand since 2019. The reunion was possible due to the joint efforts of Thakurpukur police and the ministry of external affairs. In 2015, Chandra, who was then employed in New Delhi, went to Malaysia for treatment. His travels...
KOLKATA: A 35-year-old man entered a house and randomly stabbed his 28-year-old "girlfriend" multiple times before he reportedly jumped from the fourth-floor balcony on Tuesday around 8.15 am in the Posta area of central Kolkata.The man, Vicky Sharma, a resident of Jagmohan Mullick Lane, was taken to a nearby hospital in a serious condition, where the attending doctors declared him dead. Meanwhile,...
Kolkata: The SIR led to the deletion of 44,787 electors from the Bhowanipore constituency. With 2,06,295 electors in chief minister Mamata Banerjee's constituency before the revision, one in five names, 21.7%, were deleted in the current exercise.The list indicates that at Mitra Institution Booth No. 260, under the CM's own polling station, 127 names were excluded, of which 13 individuals died. The...
Kolkata: Director and TMC MLA Raj Chakraborty filed an FIR in response to "misogynist" trolling directed at his wife, actress Subhashree Ganguly, amid the Messi controversy. Chakraborty emphasised that the issue stemmed from misinformation and a targeted attack on her identity as a woman and mother.Chakraborty explained, "The event's PR team invited her as a representative of Tollywood to attend a meet...
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