[ad_1] The Tolly’s Nullah, now choked with sewage, floods the areas along the banks during high tides KOLKATA: The KMC will spend nearly Rs 700 crore to clean the Adi Ganga and rejuvenate the water flow in the channel that was once vibrant but has dried up over the years to turn into a canal,…
[ad_1] KOLKATA: Calcutta high court on Thursday slammed the Bengal government while hearing the Sandeshkhali violence case. Calling the case ‘extremely shameful, if true’ the court pulled up the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC)-led government, saying safety of citizens falls entirely within their ‘responsibility.’Sandeshkhali, located in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, has become…
[ad_1] KOLKATA: Calcutta high court observed on Wednesday that it may entirely or partially scrap the entire panel of teachers shortlisted by the Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) if the recruitment scam was proved.If the entire panel is scrapped, it could affect over 10,000 candidates shortlisted for the job of teachers between 2014 and 2016,…
[ad_1] KOLKATA: The West Bengal Police has arrested Ajit Maiti, Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader, in the Sandeshkhali area of North 24 Parganas district.Maiti, who is known to be a close associate of the absconding TMC strongman Shahjahan Sheikh, was arrested after complaints were received regarding land grabbing from villagers.He had sought refuge in the residence…
[ad_1] SANDESHKHALI: In a fresh incident of arson at Sandeshkhali, locals mobbed a bheri controlled by absconding Trinamool functionary Sheikh Shahjahan’s brother and torched a structure set up to oversee fishing operations there on Thursday afternoon, prompting police to once again clamp fresh prohibitory orders under section 144 of CrPC in nine places under five…
[ad_1] KOLKATA: A survey on hawkers in major hawking hubs in the city by Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) in 2015 and the Town Vending Committee (TVC) in 2022 has thrown up a list of 59,000 hawkers in these localities, civic sources told TOI on Tuesday.The survey was carried out in Gariahat, New Market, Hatibagan, Sealdah…
[ad_1] UTTARPARA: A class IV student was stabbed with a vegetable knife, his head hit with an iron rod and then smashed with a stone idol while he was studying in his room at Adarshnagar near Konnagar on Friday evening. The exceptionally brutal manner in which eight-year-old Snehangshu Sharma was murdered has left even hardened…
[ad_1] KOLKATA: Bengal governorCV Ananda Boseurged state govt on Wednesday to establish a SIT and conduct a judicial inquiry into the Sandeshkhali violence, while emphasising the arrest of “gang leaders” and their “henchmen”, and advocating for ex gratia to victims. He suggested state women’s commission address the matter appropriately. “Take strict action against erring enforcement…
[ad_1] KOLKATA: Four interstate robbers – arrested for carrying out a daylight robbery at a top jewellery chain store at Ranaghat on August 29 last year have been convicted on Wednesday by a local court.The trial, which started on November 29, was completed in less than two months. The charges were framed on November 23….
