Tag: Kolkata

New Delhi: Country-wide protests on the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) gained momentum on Thursday as various groups protested in Delhi, Bengaluru, Patna, Kolkata, Hyderabad and many other cities and towns across the country. Meanwhile the authorities have prepared for the protests by deploying police force in large numbers and imposing section 144 in several […]

Kolkata: West Bengal minister and state president of Jamiat-Ulema-e-Hind Siddiqullah Chowdhury on Sunday threatened to disallow Union Home Minister Amit Shah to step out of the airport whenever he visits the city, if the Citizenship Amendment Act is not immediately withdrawn. Chowdhury said the contentious law is against humanity and the citizens of the country […]

New Delhi: As cyclone ‘Amphan’ is currently whirling at a speed of 70 kmph over Bangladesh a day after leaving a trail of devastation across a wide swath of West Bengal and Odisha, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is setting up special teams to visit these states and assess the damages. These teams […]

Cuttack: At least 49 jawans of 3rd battalion of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) in Mundali have tested positive for COVID-19, official sources said on Monday. With this, the total number of COVID-19 positive cases detected in NDRF’s Mundali battalion has reached 50. Three days back, one NDRF jawan was tested positive for COVID-19. As […]

Kolkata: The country’s deepest underground rail ventilation shaft equal to a 15 storey building and an important part of the city’s East-West Metro line was completed on Monday, officials said. The ventilation shaft, which is 43.5m deep, was completed jointly by Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC) and Afcons, a private engineering company. Such shafts are […]

Balasore: Palpable tension gripped Khantapada area in Balasore after five vehicles reportedly engaged in illegal transportation of cattle were seized near Seragada tollgate on the National Highway-16 this morning. As per reports, four trucks and a pickup van smuggling over 100 cattle were en-route to Kolkata from Bhadrak when they were intercepted by police at […]

Malkangiri: In a major crackdown, Malkangiri police has busted an inter-State racket that used to force minor girls into flesh trade. As per reports, six persons including two women from Kolkata have been arrested in connection with the incident. Senior police officials informed that the sex racket was operating in a clandestine manner at several […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after her arrest in Kolkata, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials on Sunday brought Subhra Kundu, the wife of Rose Valley Group chairman Gautam Kundu, to Bhubaneswar for questioning. As per sources, the CBI wants to conduct further probe in connection with the Rose Valley chit fund scam in Odisha. The […]

Berhampur: Months of hard work finally paid off for the Berhampur Police when they managed to lay their hands on Dinesh Rathi the mastermind of a major Indian Premier League (IPL) betting syndicate in Odisha, on Thursday. Top police sources said Rathi was nabbed in Kolkata yesterday and brought to Berhampur where he has been […]

Balasore: A man from the district has allegedly been held captive by some miscreants at gun-point in Kolkata for ransom. The miscreants allegedly have demanded Rs 8 lakh ransom from the family members of the victim, identified as Tapas Mohanty of Keshapur under Soro Police station in the district. Sukanti Mohanty, wife of the victim […]

Kolkata: At least nine persons were killed in a major fire that broke out on the 13th floor of a multi-storeyed building in Kolkata’s Strand Road area on Monday evening. Among the dead, four were fire brigade officials, an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of Kolkata’s Hare Street police station, a senior railway official and a security […]