New Delhi: A major fire broke out at the popular FD Block Durga Puja pandal in Salt Lake area of Kolkata on Wednesday morning. The entire Durga idol, along with the pandal decorations has been ravaged in flames before the puja committee could conduct idol immersion. According to reports, nobody was injured as the incident […]

Kolkata : Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday performed puja at the famous Kalighat Temple in the city, police said. Soon after delivering his speech at a pro-CAA rally here, Shah went to the Kalighat Temple, which is only a few metres away from West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s residence. Shah spent around […]

Kolkata : West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress on Thursday decided to protest against denial of invitation to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for the inauguration of the East-West Metro corridor with a senior party MP and an MLA deciding to boycott the function, sources said. Senior TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar and MLA Sujit Bose have […]

Kolkata: A major fire broke out in a paper godown in Ultadanga area of northern part of the metropolis on Saturday, fire brigade officials said. Nobody was injured. Ten fire tenders have been pressed into service to douse the flame. “We received the information about the fire at around 10 am” they said.

Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday pitched for using regional languages in promoting science communication in a “big way” to develop “love of science” in the youth, saying language should not be a barrier but a facilitator. Addressing the curtain-raiser ceremony of the commemoration of professor Satyendra Nath Bose’s 125th birth anniversary in Kolkata […]

Mangaluru: Seventeen students from various schools of Mangaluru have been selected to represent the state, in the National Spell Bee finals to be held in Kolkata on December 26 and 27, stated a press release. Sneha A S, Jashan Chhabra, Ronnan Treror Lobo, K Thaneesha, Stephen Glen Pinto, Alister Moras and Vidyut Ajith Soman from […]

New Delhi : State-run Indian Oil Corp (IOC) has cut the price of transport fuel effective on Friday by under a rupee each, of petrol by 89 paise a litre and of diesel by 49 paise, both at Delhi with corresponding decrease in other states. Making its previous fortnightly revision in fuel prices on June […]

New Delhi : Acclaimed Bengali director Rituparno Ghosh, known for films such as Raincoat, The Last Lear and Unishe April, died following a massive cardiac arrest in Kolkata on Thursday. He was 49. Ghosh was suffering from pancreatitis and passed away at his residence around 7:30 am, his friend and filmmaker Gautam Ghose told reporters. […]

Kolkata : Spot-fixing controversy that has rocked the Indian Premiere League. According to reports, Gurunath Meiyappan, the CSK boss and son-in-law of BCCI chief N Srinivasan, is not at his residence and has not been available for any comment on his name cropping up in the fixing scandal in the Indian Premiere League. Kolkata Police […]

Kolkata : Bollywood Badshah Shah Rukh Khan had promised an opening ceremony like never before to usher in the sixth edition of the Indian Premier League. And he delivered one at the Salt Lake Stadium on Tuesday. All performers—Shah Rukh himself, Deepika Padukone and Katrina Kaif — gave an electrifying performance that showcased the best […]