The Latest Breaking News from Kolkata

KOLKATA: Police on Friday began a drive against pedestrians speaking on the phone while crossing roads, levying spot fines at intersections of Esplanade, Park Street, Park Circus, Jadavpur and Behala Chowrasta. Those who jumped over barriers or chose to walk on the road instead of pavements were also fined.

KOLKATA: Developers of three to four-storey buildings will no longer have to go through the fire NOC and other formalities that is mandatory for developers of high-rises. The West Bengal Fire Services (Amendment) bill, 2022, was passed at the state assembly on Friday, which states that from now on the…

KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court has directed the Bengal government and State Legal Services Authority (SLSA) to file a report within six weeks on funds.

KOLKATA: City-based NGO Uttarayan Wildlife, in a five-year long effort, is set to restore fragmented elephant corridors that have degraded in south Bengal causing largescale man-animal conflicts.

Kolkata: Trinamool Congress and every other major political party of Bengal (except BJP) responded critically to the governor’s statement. “I wish to thank the governor for spending his retired life peacefully in Bengal,” city mayor Firhad Hakim said, referring to Dhankhar’s stint as Union junior minister in 1990s.

Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday directed CBI, investigating irregularities in teacher appointments, to throw open the doors of West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) data room, now in the agency’s control, by June 30 to enable access to SSC.

KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court stayed the payment of salaries to the CMD of state-owned electricity company WBSEB and the two general managers of WBSEDCL and WBSETCL till July 15 after the corporations failed to comply with the court directive of paying at least 20% of accumulated dearness allowance (DA) to…

KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court has directed all investigating officers seizing drugs above "commercial quantity" to videograph the process, failing which they will face departmental probe, commenting that draconian provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS Act) are "sometimes misused" by investigating agencies, leading to false implications…

KOLKATA: Water woes in large parts of Behala are set to come to an end with the KMC water supply department taking up projects to supply potable water from Garden Reach waterworks to ban indiscriminate use of ground water in near future.

KOLKATA: City boy Sahil Akhtar who suffers from locomotive disorder has ranked first in the “person with disabilities” category of Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY), a national programme of fellowship in basic sciences funded by the Centre’s department of science and technology to encourage students to take up research careers…

KOLKATA: Bisakh Mondal, a fourth-year student of computer science and engineering at Jadavpur University, has bagged a Rs 1.8crore job, the highest pay package this year. Previously, nine JU students from various engineering departments had secured overseas jobs with pay packages exceeding Rs 1 crore.