Cameron Green (AFP Photo) NEW DELHI: Australian all-rounder Cameron Green emerged as the biggest attraction at the IPL auction underway at the Etihad Arena, with Kolkata Knight Riders snapping him up for a staggering Rs 25.20 crore. The buy made Green the most expensive overseas player in the history of the tournament.Once the bidding crossed the Rs 25 crore mark, Green surpassed the previous overseas...
Bengal's draft electoral roll will feature 7,08,16,621 names, excluding over 58 lakh absent, shifted, duplicate, and dead voters KOLKATA: The draft electoral roll for Bengal, which will be published on Tuesday, will contain 7,08,16,621 names, among the 7,66,37,519 who were issued enumeration forms as part of the special intensive revision of voters’ records, Election Commission officials said.The...
Kolkata: Lakhs of Behala residents along with commuters from South 24 Parganas—headed for Maheshtala, Amtala, and Diamond Harbour—faced a harrowing time travelling to work and back on Monday due to the shutdown of the Taratala Flyover for load testing. The shutdown, which began on Saturday evening, is slated to continue until Tuesday midnight. Such was the inconvenience that an IT employee,...
Kolkata: Jadavpur University (JU) is set to discontinue its one-year postgraduate diploma in mass communication course because of its lukewarm response this year. The university website has put up a notice regarding the refund of application fees to the applicants. The university has also uploaded a link through which students must fill in the Google form to get a refund.The course, under the...
KOLKATA: Almost everything that could have gone wrong at Salt Lake Stadium on Saturday did, a TOI post-mortem conducted 24 hours after the massive Messi mess has revealed. Eyewitnesses who had a ringside view of the chaos were near-unanimous about where it all began. Someone from the crowd of hangers-on accompanying politicians and organisers, positioned close to Argentine football icon Lionel Messi,...
Kolkata: Insurers cannot deny compensation to the family of a fatal road accident victim merely because an autopsy has detected alcohol in the abdomen, as the deceased is not available to defend himself against allegations of drunk driving, Calcutta high court has observed.Justice Biswaroop Chowdhury on Friday upheld an East Midnapore court's decision awarding Rs 11.4 lakh to the biker's family,...
KOLKATA: The SIR draft roll to be published by Election Commission on Dec 16 will see every third voter getting deleted in two city assembly constituencies — Jorasanko and Chowringhee. For 11 other assembly segments in the state, 9 of which are in Kolkata, every fifth voter will go missing from the list.Chowringhee, Jorasanko To Lose Every 3rdAccording to data released by EC after the conclusion of...
Hours after the Lionel Messi show at Salt Lake Stadium spiralled into chaos, Kolkata Police on Saturday arrested event organiser Satadru Dutta. KOLKATA: The Bidhannagar court on Sunday sent the promoter and organiser of football icon Lionel Messi's G.O.A.T India Tour 2025, Satadru Dutta, to 14 days of police custody.Kolkata police arrested event organiser Dutta on Saturday, hours after a planned...
Kolkata: The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Calcutta High Court's decision and ordered that Aniket Mahata be posted at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in two weeks. The state approached the SC against Calcutta High Court's order of posting Mahata at RG Kar instead of Raiganj Medical College.Mahata, a prominent face of the RG Kar agitation, moved the single bench of Justice Biswajit Basu,...
A styled and curated buffet at the Mantena–Gadiraju wedding in Udaipur; (inset) Netra Mantena and Vamsi Gadiraju at their wedding which has curated regional and global mealsCredit for inset: @storiesbyjosephradhik When Netra Mantena–Vamsi Gadiraju’s ‘Billionaire Wedding’ unfolded in Udaipur, the food was not just good to eat. But it was also the star of the show. Luxury food stylist Rakhee...
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