KALNA: A marsh crocodile (mugger) - more than 9ft long - was found roaming a neighbourhood under ward 10 of Kalna Municipality in the wee hours of Tuesday. The incident took place at Nichujapat Pal Para of Kalna in East Burdwan. The forest department managed to capture it after a four-hour operation with the help of cops and local administration.This is the second incident in the area in two weeks....
KOLKATA: Seuli Saha, the minister of state for panchayat & rural development (P&RD), unveiled the West Bengal Panchayat Management System (WBPMS) on Tuesday. The online platform is designed to streamline and digitize all development programs, schemes, and activities undertaken by the three tiers of Panchayati Raj Institutions.A key feature of this module is the digitization of the Monthly Report...
KOLKATA: The Indian Sundarbans has registered a rise of at least 14% in its tiger population, recording the presence of a minimum of 100 big cats - from 88 in 2019 - in the all-India tiger estimation report released by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Mysuru on Sunday.Foresters said the "at least 100" figure was based on evidence of that many unique individuals clicked by camera-traps; the actual number...
KOLKATA: Members of the NGO--Fact Finding Committee on Human Rights Violations were stopped by the police on Sunday morning before they entered Howrah to speak to the victims. Six of the team members were supposed to meet the victims at Howrah where clashes over Ram Navami procession left many injured.The team was stopped near the Second Hooghly bridge on Sunday morning as cops requested them not to...
BHUBANESWAR: People have been facing difficulties during the last three days for cancellation of several long-distance trains due to 'rail roko' staged by members of the Adivasi Kurmi Samaj in West Bengal demanding scheduled tribe (ST) status.The protestors have staged rail roko at Khemasuli station in the Kharagpur-Tata railway section of Kharagpur division and at Kustaur station in Adra-Chandil...
KOLKATA: Metro Railway general manager P Uday Kumar Reddy inspected Sealdah to Salt Lake Sector V stretch of the East-West Metro Corridor (Green Line) on Friday and asked the staff to maintain the highest standard of cleanliness. Reddy reached Sealdah station on Friday morning and started the inspection from there. At Sealdah, he inspected entry-exit points, platforms, crew lobby, ticket vending...
KOLKATA: Some of the private schools in the city, which admitted children only when they turned four, and in some cases five, have brought down the admission age cut-off to three years to align with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. Don Bosco Park Circus has introduced lower kindergarten (LKG), where children of four years have been taken in for the new session starting April. The school will...
KOLKATA: At least 18 essential drugs, which are part of our home medicine cabinet, including oral rehydration solution sachets and pain killers, will get pricier from Saturday. They are likely to cost 10%-12% more with National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) changing price caps of 25 medicines.The stock with the revised prices is likely to reach the Kolkata market in a month. "The prices will...
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