Kolkata

KOLKATA: Five city girls, who were marooned in a remote village at Rishikhola when the Teesta flash flood washed away the sole bamboo bridge connecting their homestay on a hilltop with the mainland, returned to their Kolkata homes on Friday. They were rescued by army and cops but had to trek 8kms along a forest, riverbed and broken roads to reach safety. They were escorted in a car to New Jalpaiguri.The...

KOLKATA: The Kolkata Traffic Police has received 16 online complaints about excess fees being charged by parking attendants from New Market, Gariahat, Kidderpore, Dalhousie and hospitals off EM Bypass. Lalbazar has also said a joint crackdown by local police and traffic guards will be carried out at these spots. “Since the KMC has a major role in keeping a check, we will be writing to them and seek...

KOLKATA: Bengal recorded the first kala-azar death of the year on Wednesday when a 47-year-old man succumbed to the infection at a Kolkata hospital. Avadesh Paswan, the victim, was a resident of Bihar who fell ill during a visit to his in-laws' place in Howrah's Bally. With this, the state has recorded 10 kala-azar cases this year till August. In Bengal, Habibpur in Malda is known to be endemic for...

Kolkata: About 150 families of Bonkapasi, a remote village in Katwa, are burning the midnight oil to complete orders of “sholar saaj” (wood sponge ornamentation) for Durga Puja organisers across the country. With a turnover of more than Rs 50 crore during the puja months, all men will leave the village a couple of days before Mahalaya with these ornaments to dress up the Goddess in pandals....

KOLKATA: The city cops have nabbed a 29-year-old youth who had been cheating US residents - especially those at Baltimore - for the past three years. The tip-off had come from the FBI. Accused Danish Ahmed (29), a resident of Beniapukur, was nabbed from near Circus Avenue on Tuesday around 11.30pm."During a search, Rs 4.9 lakh in cash and 13 costly wrist watches of some popular brands, believed to have...

KOLKATA: A 10-year-old student of St Lawrence High School passed away on Monday around 4am at a south Kolkata nursing home. His family said the death was due to viral pneumonia.The school authority was informed by his family that Samuel C Pillai was unwell and suffering from fever. However, when Samuel’s condition turned severe on Saturday they rushed him to a local hospital. After several...

KOLKATA: The prolonged rainfall that has gathered momentum since the last week of September is unlikely to abate before weekend, despite the gradual weakening of the low pressure in the Bay of Bengal. The well-marked low pressure area that developed in the east central Bay of Bengal reduced in force after reaching southwest Jharkhand and north Chhattisgarh on Monday. However, the cyclonic circulation...

KOLKATA: Number of cadaver organ donations in Bengal is set to rise from 15 in 2022 to at least 18 to 19 this year - an increment which is encouraging but could have been better, felt experts at a seminar on organ donation held at a city private hospital on Saturday. It stressed on the need for more brain death declarations to increase the number of deceased organ donations in which Bengal has fallen...

KOLKATA: A woman and her 34-year-old son were found living with the body of the woman's husband - identified as Shankar Chakrabarty - for over 24 hours in their rented flat close to Sisir Bagan in Behala.This was almost 48 hours after a physician had visited the family and requested the duo to admit Shankar, 80, to a hospital after he was injured in a fall inside the bathroom. "All three suffer from...

KOLKATA: A 17-year-old student has succumbed to dengue infection, making it the first known dengue death in central Kolkata during the current outbreak. Most dengue deaths in the city this year have so far been reported from the southern and eastern parts of the city, along with pockets of northern fringes like Bangur Avenue and Bidhannagar.TOI had reported the death in its late edition on Friday.The...