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...
Kolkata: The introduction of a new feature — BLO-BLA MOM (Minutes of meeting) — on the BLO app just 24 hours before the completion of the SIR exercise in the state left booth-level officers confused on Wednesday. This is the 10th addition to the mobile application ever since its rollout. Multiple BLOs and voters have questioned the Election Commission's flip-flop on the functioning of the SIR...
Kolkata: The Workers' Association of the Indian Statistical Institute has urged the Centre not to replace the council structure with the board of governors in the ISI Bill 2025. It is also wary of the efforts to shift the headquarters of the institute from Kolkata. The draft bill proposes to replace the 33-member council with an 11-member board. While the members of the council are elected and...
KOLKATA: Suspended Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir on Tuesday claimed he would emerge as a "kingmaker" in the 2026 West Bengal assembly elections, asserting that no government could be formed without the support of his proposed new political outfit.Kabir predicted that neither the ruling TMC nor the BJP would secure a simple majority on their own, estimating that no party would cross the 148-seat...
Kolkata: In a significant boost to India's biodiversity records, scientists from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have discovered two new species of jumping spiders in Meghalaya, one of the world's richest ecological frontiers. The species — Asemonea dentis and Colyttus nongwar — underline the ecological significance of the northeast, a vital component of the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot.The...
Kolkata: On Tuesday, operations at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport returned to the new normal for the first time since the Dec 3 meltdown, with no flight cancellations except for those that IndiGo Airlines had dropped from its network in advance. Nearly all operations were on time, and passenger movement through the airport was smooth.The overall scene at the airport among flyers,...
The data for this weather forecast has been sourced from AQI.in, providing residents with comprehensive information to plan their daily activities and weekly schedules accordingly.Kolkata began December 9, 2025, with a pleasant and sunny morning, anticipating a comfortable peak temperature of 27.8°C. This favorable weather follows yesterday's air quality, which was categorized as 'severe' with an AQI...
Kolkata: Even after marking untraceable voters as absentees, BLOs can upload their forms if they turn up before Thursday. However, if any untraceable voter misses the Dec 11 deadline and contacts the BLO later, the latter will not be able to roll back the forms digitised with absentee marking.Following the instruction received on WhatsApp, the BLO will have to write a letter to the electoral...
Kolkata: The turbulence triggered by IndiGo's mass flight cancellations has spilled beyond airport operations into a fresh law-and-order concern. Bike-borne hotel touts are now approaching stranded passengers at the departure forecourt of Kolkata airport.The ongoing disruption has opened the door for a new set of touts targeting anxious and fatigued travellers whose flights were abruptly cancelled....
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