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Kolkata: Kolkata experienced severe commute challenges on Monday as heavy rainfall since morning led to waterlogging of key arterial roads in central and north Kolkata. This was compounded by two disruptions in the city's lifeline -- the metro -- during Monday's rush hours. The first metro disruption was caused by water seepage into the tunnels, forcing the authorities to suspend services in the Maidan-Girish Park section for nearly two hours from 9.05am. Again, between 11.20am and 12.28pm, no t ...Read More >
Jaipur: Two workers died while five others are feared trapped after soil caved in during pipeline excavation work in Rajasthan's Bharatpur on Sunday morning, police said. According to officials, some labourers were filling a 10-foot-deep trench dug to lay a pipeline near Jangi ka Nagla village when the soil caved in. Twelve workers got trapped under the soil. Upon hearing the cries, other labourers and project staff started rescue attempts, but the depth and heaviness of the soil made immediat ...Read More >
Kolkata: Union minister Sukanta Majumdar on Sunday morning walked out of the Kolkata Police headquarters after being detained, along with other BJP leaders, overnight following a protest against the gang rape of a student at a law college. Stating that he had refused bail on personal bond, Majumdar, also the BJP state unit chief, said that the police released them in the morning without pressing any charge. "West Bengal has become a killing field of democracy," he told reporters after coming o ...Read More >
Kolkata, June 28: A political slugfest has erupted in West Bengal after a woman accused Padma Shree awardee monk Kartik Maharaj, who is posted with the Murshidabad unit of Bharat Sevashram Sangha, of allegedly raping her 12 times for six months in 2013. As per the police complaint lodged by the woman, Kartik Maharaj raped her multiple times 12 years ago promising her a job at a local school. The ruling Trinamool Congress is highlighting the issue in a major way and accusing the BJP of being si ...Read More >
Kolkata: Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Saturday sought the state's cooperation regarding various pending railway works here while mentioning hurdles faced in implementing several Metro projects. He was at the newly upgraded Santragachi railway station to virtually flag off the first local train between Howrah and Purulia via Bankura and Masagram."The chief minister should rise above politics and allow the railway projects to happen. Issues like traffic blocks have delayed the Metro work a ...Read More >
Srinagar: Ahead of the annual Amaranth Yatra, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha interacted with various stakeholders here on Saturday to discuss arrangements for the smooth pilgrimage. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was present at the interaction at the Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC) here in which members of the civil society, religious leaders, DDC chairpersons, members of business and trade associations, and MLAs also participated. The LG said the administration has made ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jun 28 (PTI) The police on Saturday stopped a BJP rally led by its West Bengal unit chief Sukanta Majumdar and detained him along with several other party leaders when they tried to take out the protest march to a law college in the city, where a student was allegedly gang-raped, a senior officer said. The rally was not allowed to proceed towards the South Calcutta Law College, where the 24-year-old student was allegedly gang-raped by three men, including an alumnus of the institute, o ...Read More >
Kolkata, June 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) Reacting to the rape of a law student in the premises of a law college in Kolkata on Wednesday night, the BJP's Information Technology Cell chief and the party's central observer for West Bengal, Amit Malviya, on Friday said that under the current Trinamool Congress regime the state has become a nightmare for women where "rape has become a routine tragedy." Of the three accused arrested in the case, one is a former law student and the other two accused are curr ...Read More >
Kolkata: KMC workers found the severed head of a young woman from a roadside garbage dump in Tollygunge, south Kolkata, at 9am on Friday, the discovery sending shockwaves among local residents. The cops have started a murder case, based on the verbal opinion of the autopsy surgeon, said Rupesh Kumar, joint CP (crime and traffic). Local residents think the murder was committed a few hours before the grisly discovery, suggested by the freshness of the blood, but the cops refused to speculate at t ...Read More >
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) mandated that all commercial establishments in the city must display signboards in Bengali alongside other languages by February 21, 2025, an official stated. This move is part of the civic body's drive to promote the use of Bengali in public spaces. Municipal Secretary Swapan Kundu confirmed that the corporation is engaging with shop, restaurant and business owners to ensure compliance. The decision aligns with an October proposal by Trinamool Congress ...Read More >
A day after the police arrested two people for trying to shoot Trinamool Congress councillor Sushanta Ghosh on Friday evening while he was sitting outside his house, the main accused in the attack, Afroz Khan alias Gulzar, has admitted to attempting the murder citing retaliation for alleged land encroachment. Advertisement https://images.indianexpress.com/2020/08/1x1.png Accused Afroz was produced in the court on Sunday, which remanded him in police custody till November 29. Accor ...Read More >
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