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KOLKATA: The Bengal rowing team has reached the finals at eight events in the inter-state challengers and sub junior national championships currently underway at Dal Lake in Srinagar. The team will compete in the finals on Saturday.

The Times of India

Kolkata: Man flees with rental firm’s car

KOLKATA: An app-based self-drive car rental firm has lodged an FIR against a customer who switched off the tracking device in the vehicle and then fled with the car.

The Times of India

Kolkata: Complaints on encroachment, craters pour in at online meet

KOLKATA: Prodded by complaints and apprehensions about a slew of issues, the custodians of New Town started an online grievance cell where residents spoke about the issues directly to NKDA officials for quick redressal on Friday.

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KMC to deploy senior officials at pumping stations on rainy days

KOLKATA: As the city awaits the first heavy spell of rain this monsoon, the KMC drainage department has taken special measures to ensure that drainage pumping stations that flush out storm water from the city’s waterlogging-prone pockets do not falter on days when it pours. A KMC official said the…

The Times of India

kolkata: Fresh cracks on Bypass lead to snarls

KOLKATA: Only light vehicles were allowed on the left lane of the Ruby-bound flank of Bypass near Metropolitan crossing on Friday after fresh cracks were noticed in the area where subsidence had taken place on Monday. Buses and garbage trucks used the right lane.

The Times of India

Kolkata: Cops crack jaywalking whip, fine pedestrians on phone

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.

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Kolkata: KMC, fire department agree on high-rise definition

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…

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Calcutta high court seeks funds report from state, SLSA in 6 weeks

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

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5-year habitat restoration plan for south Bengal jumbo corridors

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.

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‘Kolkata comprises efforts of its vibrant working population’

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.

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HC: Allow School Service Commission access to data room, submit State Level Selection Test breakup

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.

The Times of India

Calcutta high court stays pay of state power companies’ trio over dearness allowance default

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…

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Video-record large drug busts: Calcutta high court

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…

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Kolkata: Behala gets new booster station

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.

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Kolkata: Boy with rare disorder makes city proud

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…

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Kolkata: Jadavpur University computer science student bags 1.8cr job

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.

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Kolkata: Panel for rehab of Bowbazar traders

KOLKATA: A committee has been set up to identify those who have suffered loss in business because of the subsidence caused by the East-West Metro construction at Bowbazar’s Durga Pithuri Lane on May 11 when several buildings were damaged and around 160 residents were displaced. The buildings that housed jewellery…

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Kolkata: Transport operators urge state to enforce mask rule on public vehicles after case surge

KOLKATA: The Joint Council of Bus Syndicate (JCBS) and City Suburban Bus Service (CSBS) have asked the state government to reintroduce masks in public transport and asked its staff to wear masks to stay safe from another Covid wave. While the JCBS has begun a campaign in this regard, CSBS…

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Kolkata: Rail Vikas Nigam Limited starts restoring water body in Patuli after Metro construction

KOLKATA: A sprawling water body, over which the viaduct of the New Garia-Airport Metro has come up, is being restored as per Calcutta High Court order. With the Phase 1 of the New Garia-Airport corridor nearing completion, the implementing agency, Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL), has started restoring a 7-acre…

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West Bengal government nod to reopen all schools from Monday

KOLKATA: All schools in the state will reopen from Monday. The state school education department issued notices to all district magistrates on Friday, urging them to take necessary measures to ensure the smooth reopening of schools following a long summer break.

The Times of India

Kolkata: 45-min downpour floods New Town

KOLKATA: Large parts of New Town were waterlogged in a barely 45-minute sharp spell of rainfall on Friday, leaving residents fuming that the civic officials had learnt nothing from last year’s flooding.

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Kolkata: Ray of hope for Swapna

KOLKATA: Swapna Barman will keep her fingers crossed as her name is featured in the list of five added athletes for the Commonwealth Games which was announced on Friday during a hearing on a writ petition in the Delhi High Court by high jumper Tejaswin Shankar, a national record holder,…

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Rare civet rescued from garage, set free in North Bengal

KOLKATA: An awareness campaign among residents of a part of Cooch Behar town by members of an NGO has helped in the reunion of a female large Indian civet — whose sighting is considered very rare — with its cubs.

The Hindu

Kolkata Police summons Nupur Sharma again

This is the second time the suspended BJP spokesperson was summoned for her comments on Prophet Mohammad

The Hindu

Tea with benefits: Lessons from the Royal Family

Our politicians can learn from the British Royal Family how to gather public goodwill by giving themselves a cuddly makeover

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