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KK's concert was overcrowded with ventilation problems: Fans say

Jun 02, 2022, at 04:36 am

Kolkata/IBNS: The sudden death of famous Indian singer Krishnakumar Kunnath, popularly known by his stage name KK, after a concert in Kolkata, has raised several questions over the arrangements at the venue, the Nazrul Mancha.

KK no more: Singer's family arrives in Kolkata, Mamata announces gun salute

Jun 01, 2022, at 04:53 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: The family of popular Indian singer KK, who passed away after a concert in Kolkata, arrived at a city hospital where the mortal remains of the icon has been kept.

Famous singer KK dies of heart attack in Kolkata

Jun 01, 2022, at 05:26 am

Kolkata/IBNS: Famous Indian singer Krishnakumar Kunnath, popularly known as 'KK', died in Kolkata on Tuesday evening after delivering a performance at the city's Nazrul Mancha. He was 53.

Late Bengali actor Bidisha De Majumder's friend Manjusha Neogi's hanging body now recovered

May 27, 2022, at 06:31 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: Late Bengali actor Bidisha De Majumder's friend Manjusha Neogi's hanging body has now been recovered from her Patuli residence in Kolkata, media reports said.

Bengali actor Bidisha De Majumder found dead at Kolkata apartment, investigation on

May 26, 2022, at 08:14 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: Model-turned Bengali actor Bidisha De Majumder was found dead at her apartment in Kolkata's Dum Dum area, media reports said.

Kolkata: Two rowing players die while training due to thunderstorm

May 22, 2022, at 05:29 am

Kolkata/IBNS: Two rowing players died after their boat was hit by a thunderstorm which was accompanied by a heavy downpour in Kolkata's Rabindra Sarobar Saturday, media reports said.

Amit Shah likely to visit Sourav Ganguly's home, Mamata wants BJP leader to be served 'Rosogolla and doi'

May 06, 2022, at 06:54 pm

Kolkata/UNI/IBNS: Union Home Minister Amit Shah, on a two-day tour of West Bengal, is likely to pay a courtesy call to Indian cricket board (BCCI) president Sourav Ganguly at his ancestral home in Kolkata's Behala area Friday evening, media reports said.

Jharkhand: Kolkata STF busts mini gun factory in Dumka

Apr 02, 2022, at 11:50 pm

Kolkata: A special task force of Kolkata Police with the support of Dumka Police has busted a mini gun factory being operated in Saruwa village under Muffasil Police Station area, a police official on Saturday said.

The Kashmir Files: Anger, tears and sense of betrayal revisit Pandit community at screening of Vivek Agnihotri film

Mar 14, 2022, at 09:37 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: Tears rolled down her eyes as Preeti Thusu, a Kashmiri Pandit, recalled her family's ordeal living in a tent some three decades ago after the exodus of the community to escape the Islamists' laboratory of terror that was Kashmir in 1989-90. 

Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata gets new Superior General after 13 years

Mar 14, 2022, at 05:27 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: Missionaries of Charity, which was established by late Nobel Peace laureate Mother Teresa as a Catholic religious congregation in 1950, has got its new Superior General after 13 years, media reports said.

Major fire breaks out in Kolkata tannery, firefighting ops underway

Mar 13, 2022, at 03:23 am

Kolkata/IBNS: A massive fire broke out in a tannery at Meher Ali Lane under Tangra Police Station limits in Kolkata on Saturday evening.

Bangladeshi national killed in Kolkata guest house fire

Mar 12, 2022, at 10:30 pm

Kolkata: A Bangladeshi woman died and two others, including another Bangladeshi national, were injured in a fire that broke out in a guest house at Mirza Ghalib Street (Free School Street) in central Kolkata in the early hours of Saturday.

Kolkata: Left youth leaders hit streets again demanding justice for Anish Khan 'murder'

Mar 10, 2022, at 04:46 am

Kolkata/IBNS: Cornering the Mamata Banerjee government further, a sizable number of young Leftist leaders on Wednesday held a rally in central Kolkata demanding justice for the alleged murder of student leader Anish Khan.

'Anxious' sister prays in Kolkata for Army officer brother fighting for Ukraine against Russia

Feb 27, 2022, at 06:37 am

Though the western Ukraine is still comparatively safer, Irina, married to a Bengali doctor in Kolkata, is wary of her brother Sergei who is busy doing his duty as an Army officer against the Russian onslaught.

Kolkata's elderly couple shares ordeal of their son stuck in war-hit Ukraine

Feb 26, 2022, at 09:44 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: An elderly couple from Kolkata's Sonarpur area is spending anxious  days worrying about their son's safety in Ukraine, which is in a volatile situation after Russia invaded the country.

Veteran singer Sandhya Mukhopadhyay hospitalised with Covid, other difficulties

Jan 28, 2022, at 03:21 am

Kolkata/IBNS: Legendary playback singer Sandhya Mukhopadhyay, who specialises in Bengali music, has been admitted to a Kolkata hospital with Covid-19 and other health complications, reports said on Thursday.

Massive fire breaks out at a cinema hall in Kolkata

Jan 19, 2022, at 04:51 pm

Kolkata/UNI: A massive fire broke out at Park Show House cinema hall at Mullickbazar in downtown city on Tuesday.

Kolkata: Massive fire breaks out at a cinema hall

Jan 18, 2022, at 09:42 pm

Kolkata/UNI: A massive fire broke out at Park Show House cinema hall at Mullickbazar in Kolkata on Tuesday.

PM Modi inaugurates second campus of Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute in Kolkata

Jan 07, 2022, at 10:24 pm

New Delhi: PM Narendra Modi inaugurated the second campus of Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute in Kolkata on Friday via video conference.

IPS Vineet Goyal appointed as new Kolkata Police Commissioner

Dec 31, 2021, at 04:31 am

Kolkata/IBNS: The Additional Director General (ADG) of West Bengal Special Task Force (STF), 1994 batch IPS officer Vineet Kumar Goyal, has been appointed as the new Commissioner of the Kolkata Police force, officials said on Thursday.

Two boys injured in Kolkata blast

Dec 30, 2021, at 09:51 pm

Kolkata/UNI: Two boys were injured in a blast near Salt Lake, a posh satellite township of Kolkata, police said on Thursday.

TMC strongman Firhad Hakim to continue as Kolkata Mayor

Dec 23, 2021, at 11:43 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo, Mamata Banerjee, on Thursday picked her trusted lieutenant Firhad Hakim as the new Mayor of Kolkata.

After Kolkata civic poll debacle, West Bengal BJP opts for revamp

Dec 23, 2021, at 06:58 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: The West Bengal unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) opted for a revamp after the saffron brigade was decimated by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and even went behind the Left in the recently concluded Kolkata civic polls.

After TMC's landslide win, Mamata Banerjee to pick Kolkata Mayor today

Dec 23, 2021, at 04:42 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will on Thursday pick Kolkata's new Mayor two days after her Trinamool Congress (TMC) registered a landslide victory in the city civic polls.

Let's be civil in victory: TMC 'sympathiser' Parambrata amid post KMC poll result violence

Dec 22, 2021, at 06:23 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: Indian actor Parambrata Chattopadhyay has urged the Trinamool Congress (TMC), which has decimated the Opposition in the Kolkata civic polls, to restrain with several reports of vandalisation of rival party offices allegedly by the ruling dispensation members.

Mamata's TMC sweeps Kolkata civic polls, BJP-Left-Cong restricted to single digit

Dec 21, 2021, at 11:24 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: Maintaining its dominance over West Bengal politics, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Tuesday registered a landslide victory in Kolkata civic elections, which were marred by sporadic violence on the polling day, leaving the opposition parties in disarray.

TMC set to sweep violence-marred Kolkata civic polls, Opposition languishes in single digit

Dec 21, 2021, at 06:42 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: Consolidating its position in West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) has swept the violence-marred Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) Elections 2021, which was held last Sunday.

Mamata's TMC set for landslide win in KMC Elections 2021, Left, BJP fight for second spot

Dec 21, 2021, at 04:03 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress (TMC) is set for a landslide victory in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) Elections 2021 which was marred by sporadic violence on the polling day on Sunday.

TMC releases manifesto for upcoming Kolkata Municipal Corporation polls, makes 10 promises

Dec 12, 2021, at 02:22 am

Kolkata/IBNS: The ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), which swept the assembly elections earlier this year, is back in the race to continue with its uninterrupted two-term stint in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), which will go to polls on Dec 19.

Mamata Banerjee meets industrialist Gautam Adani in Kolkata

Dec 03, 2021, at 04:49 am

Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday met industrialist Gautam Adani at the state secretariat Nabanna in Kolkata.