KOLKATA: Thursday turned out to be the hottest day so far this year with the maximum temperature breaching the 35°C mark. Following a two-degree jump, the mercury touched 36.5°C. The rise in temperature signals the beginning of a hot spell, which is predicted to continue till mid-April. It would pave the way for a scorching and dry spell when the mercury might climb close to 40°C, said weathermen....
KOLKATA: Sealdah divisional railway manager (DRM) Deepak Nigam and commissioner of Customes inspected the border railway station in Gede on Wednesday facilitate faster movement of cargo and passengers trains across the border. The officers conducted a joint inspection of the facilities available at the Customs checking point at railway station on April 5.It is well-known that, apart from handling two...
KOLKATA: Amidst the current situation of hatred and religious divisiveness, boarders of Hindu Hostel like Arpan Maji, Rajarshi Barman and Gobinda Barman hosted an iftar for Muslim boarders to spread the message of communal harmony and show that Presidency students uphold the spirit of plurality. The event was not restricted to only boarders, rather students from Presidency University, Jadavpur...
KOLKATA: An illegal call centre, operating from a swanky office in a Sector V highrise, was sealed by Bidhannagar police on Monday. During a raid cops arrested seven employees of Vinheet Technologies while its two directors, Vineet Agarwal and Prem Lata Agarwal, are absconding. The accused duped foreigners in Belgium and other parts of Europe. Cops seized 26 computers, nine smartphones and cash worth Rs...
RISHRA: An uneasy calm prevailed in the area near Rail Gate 4 at Rishra on Tuesday. Shops downed shutters and empty roads bore telltale signs of Monday night's flare-up - stones, shreds of broken bottles and remains of a half-charred police van. Cops have by far outnumbered locals on the road, exercising Section 144 CrPC. Police arrested 50 people since Monday - 38 of them on Tuesday. The prohibitory...
KOLKATA: A youth in his late 20s turned up at Narayanpur police station in Rajarhat near Greater Kolkata in West Bengal’s North 24 Pargana district claiming he had killed his mother and that the body was lying at home. Police immediately arrested Somnath Santra who was ready to surrender and found the lifeless body of Lakshmi Santra (49) at the bed of his home.The incident happened early on Tuesday...
KOLKATA: Bengal is getting three more Vande Bharat trains — Howrah-Puri, Howrah-Ranchi and Howrah-Patna. Talks are on for a fourth — Howrah-Varanasi, too.The Howrah-New Jalpaiguri Vande Bharat, flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 30 last year, will be followed by at least three more, Eastern Railway general manager Arun Arora while speaking on ER’s “superlative performance in...
KOLKATA: A 28-year-old man was arrested for allegedly murdering a 16-year-old girl who had gone missing from her Kolkata Leather Complex area home on March 25 and whose body was found a week ago. The accused, Tufan Pramanik, is a cycle shop owner and had been hiding in the Dhapa landfill site for the past 60 hours.Pramanik was picked up from Khanaberia Sarderpara on Monday. "He was trying to get a job...
KOLKATA: One of the city's oldest single screen theatres, Intally Talkies, is permanently closing down. Tucked away on Dr Suresh Sarkar Road, the theatre used to draw a sizeable crowd for Hindi releases. However, footfall declined with time and the last nail on the coffin was the pandemic. The cinema never recovered from the Covid blow. Recently, its management informed the Eastern India Motion Pictures...
KOLKATA: A missed call scam involving an international pay-per-call number, that has been in existence since 2018, seems to have reared its head again in the country with a couple of netizens receiving such calls.However, even as no police complaint has been filed, cyber experts in the city have warned users to be wary about responding to calls from odd numbers.It's known as Madagascar scam, where calls...
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