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,...
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...
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