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...
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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...
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...
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,...