Tag: Kolkata

Five days after his abduction, Kolkata-based businessman Pratik Patodia has been rescued from Kantabanjhi area of Bolangir district

Jharsuguda: Police has constituted four teams to trace Pratik Patodia, a Kolkata-based businessman who was kidnapped from Beheramal area near here on the State Highway 10 here yesterday, and nab the miscreants involved in the abduction. Sources said simultaneous raids are being conducted at several places to trace Patodia, who was abducted while on his […]

Jharsuguda: Unidentified miscreants today abducted a Kolkata-based businessman identified as Pratik Patodia from near Beramahal here while he was on his way towards Kirei, where he owns a spinning mill, from Jharsuguda. According to sources, Pratik’s abandoned car and his sunglasses were seen at the spot where he is believed to have been abducted from. […]

A Kolkata bound Air India (AI) flight carrying 152 passengers and crew from Bengaluru made an emergency landing at the Biju Patnaik International Airport here this morning due to a technical snag

The Quick Action Team (QAT) of the Commissionerate Police on Thursday arrested the kingpin of sex racket in Odisha Sunil Meher in Kolkata

Baripada: Town police on Saturday night rescued 20 minor girls while they were being taken away to Kolkata by a bus. From primary investigation, it was found that the rescued girls are residents of Bhadrak, Jagatsinghpur and Puri districts, sources in police said. The girls were going to the neighbouring state to work in a […]

Bhubaneswar: Putting all speculations to rest about the source of the carbines seized from the possession of gangster Dhalasamanta brothers, the Commissionerate police on Tuesday asserted that the sophisticated weapons were manufactured at Indian Ordnance Factory in Kolkata. Confirming this, police commissioner YB Khurania said, “Forensic tests revealed that the weapons were manufactured at Indian […]

New Delhi: Actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha is likely to face “action” for attending the opposition rally in Kolkata as the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) on Saturday said it will take “cognisance” of it. “He is likely to be suspended from the party after President Amit Shah returns from AIIMS. He has now crossed all the limits […]

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday observed the 21st foundation day of Trinamool Congress party. “Today @AITCofficial turns 21. The journey which began on January 1, 1998 has been full of struggles, but we have been steadfast in our resolve to fight for the people #Trinamool21,” Banerjee tweeted. Expressing her gratitude to […]

Kolkata: Bengal Warriors continued their hot streak in their home leg as their beat Telugu Titans 39-34 in Pro Kabaddi Season 6 match here on Tuesday. Maninder Singh scored 12 raid points for Bengal Warriors to lead his team’s charge. Maninder also became the fastest man to reach 500 points in Pro Kabaddi League as […]

Kolkata: Union Minister for Science and Technology and Environment Harsh Vardhan on Monday said India is firmly on its course to become one of the top two scientifically advanced nations in the world by 2030. The minister said the country has made significant progress in the fields of nano technology, space science under the Narendra […]

Kolkata: Veteran Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader and former West Bengal Commerce and Industries Minister Nirupam Sen died early on Monday, party said. Sen was 72. The former politburo member succumbed to multi-organ failure around 5 a.m. at a private hospital in the satellite township of Salt Lake. Sen, who handled the industrial reconstruction, […]

Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday gave conditional permission to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Rath Yatra rallies, saying the organisers will be liable for any untoward incident or damage to public property. The Bengal government may, however, move the division bench on Friday challenging the court order. The state government had last week rejected […]

Kolkata: The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday arrested Suman Chattopadhyay, editor of a leading Bengali daily, in I-Core Group chit fund scam, an official said. Chattopadhyay had allegedly received money in his bank accounts from the chit fund firm, the agency’s spokesperson Abhishek Dayal said. Chattopadhyay, also a director in Disha Productions and Media […]

Kolkata: The West Bengal government on Saturday rejected the BJP’s application for holding “Rath Yatra and/or Ganatantra Bachao yatra” in the state saying there was a “grave apprehension of major breach of peace and communal violence during and in the aftermath” of the programme. In an official communication to the BJP, that was made public […]