Dec 09, 2019, at 05:14 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Amid skyrocketing price of onion across India, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday visited Jadubabu Market in south Kolkata to inspect the situation.
Kolkata: Contraband drugs over Rs 1 cr seized, three peddlers arrested
Dec 08, 2019, at 07:20 pm
Kolkata/UNI: Police arrested three drug peddlers and seized contraband narcotics worth over Rs 1 crore from them during a raid at a posh residential complex in a south Kolkata neigbourhood, official sources said on Sunday.
Indian Navy to build TU 142 Aircraft museum in Kolkata
Dec 03, 2019, at 05:09 pm
Kolkata, Dec 3 (UNI) To motivate young school children to join Indian Navy, it will set up a permanent TU 142 aircraft museum in Kolkata on the lines of the Vizag Naval museum, said Naval Officer-in-Charge, West Bengal, Commodore Suprobho De.
Doctors declare health alert in Kolkata on National Pollution Day
Dec 02, 2019, at 07:58 pm
Kolkata/UNI: On the occasion of National Pollution Day, eminent doctors and health experts came together, to raise the red alert and share alarming data and facts on the issue of air pollution in the city at a press conference here on Monday.
ATM fraud: 2 Turkish and 2 Bangladeshi arrested in Kolkata
Nov 19, 2019, at 04:28 pm
Agartala/UNI: As many as four foreign nationals – two belong to Turkey and two others from Bangladesh have been arrested this morning in Belgharia of central Kolkata in connection with hacking of a few hundred Indian bank accounts including cloning of ATM cards of about 60 SBI customers of Tripura.
Dengue Protest in Kolkata: BJP youth wing clashes with police
Nov 13, 2019, at 05:29 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Members of the BJP's youth wing clashed with the police in Kolkata as they were demonstrating against the increase of dengue cases in the city in recent times.
Kolkata to host COCSSO conference next week
Nov 08, 2019, at 04:28 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) is organizing 27th Conference of Central and State Statistical Organizations (COCSSO) during Nov 11-12 at Biswa Bangla Convention Centre, DG Block, Action Area 1, New Town, Kolkata.
Nov 04, 2019, at 11:29 pm
Kolkata/UNI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the 5th India International Science Festival by addressing the audience at Biswa Bangla Convention Centre in the city through video conference at 4 pm on Tuesday.
Kolkata Metro services hit after smoke
Oct 28, 2019, at 04:06 pm
Kolkata, Oct 28 (UNI) Detection of smoke on the tracks of Dum Dum-bound train at Rabindra Sadan station forced partial suspension of Metro services in the city on Monday.
Oct 11, 2019, at 04:49 pm
Kolkata: A West Bengal couple, who met for the first time during Maha Ashtami celebration of the recently concluded Durga Puja festivity in the state, got married within four hours after their first interaction.
Kolkata Puja club lands in trouble after playing Azaan in puja pandal
Oct 07, 2019, at 04:51 pm
Kolkata, Oct 7(UNI) The organisers of a Durga Puja in the city sparked controversy, after a video showing Azaan being played in the puja pandal went viral.
Amit Shah in Kolkata today, rebel Trinamool MLA Sabyasachi Dutta to join BJP
Oct 01, 2019, at 11:00 am
Kolkata: In presence of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Amit Shah, who will be here on Tuesday, rebel Trinamool Congress MLA and former Bidhannagar Mayor Sabyasachi Dutta is likely to join the saffron outfit.
Kolkata: Arsalan owner arrested for gambling
Sep 29, 2019, at 07:44 pm
Kolkata: The owner of a popular biryani chain was arrested along with 13 more people for gambling after Kolkata Police raided two clubs in the city.
Kolkata: 25 injured in bus accident
Sep 15, 2019, at 09:10 pm
Kolkata, Sep 15 (UNI) At least 25 people, including some women, were injured when a bus carrying them rammed against a mini bus on Mayo road in downtown city on Sunday.
Kolkata: BJP youth wing protests against hike in electric charges, clashes with police
Sep 11, 2019, at 02:53 pm
Kolkata: Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), the youth wing of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), clashed with police while protesting against the "irrational hike" in electric bills at Chittaranjan Avenue here on Wednesday.
Damaged houses to be rebuilt, cracked ones to be repaired: Mamata
Sep 03, 2019, at 11:26 pm
Kolkata, Sept 3 (UNI): A meeting was called at Nabanna by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday in the aftermath of several houses either crashing or developing major cracks and their residents having to evacuate following water and mud leakage in the East-West Metro tunnel.
Kolkata: Two hurt as jetty collapses at Ahiritola Ghat
Sep 01, 2019, at 09:46 pm
Kolkata, Sept 1 (UNI) Two persons were injured when a jetty at the Ahiritolla ghat in north Kolkata collapsed triggered by sudden high tide at Bhagirati river today.
Kolkata car crash: Elder Arsalan scion was driving Jaguar, arrested
Aug 22, 2019, at 12:41 pm
Kolkata: In a twist to the Kolkata car crash incident, police on Wednesday arrested Raghib, the elder scion of restaurant chain Arsalan, who was driving the Jaguar which crashed into a police kiosk at the Loudon Street here and killed two Bangladeshi men last week, media reports said.
Doors ajar but a Kolkata Metro train completes safe run
Aug 21, 2019, at 05:44 pm
Kolkata, Aug 21 (UNI) A Metro train today completed its full run from Dum Dum to Kabi Subhash safely despite the doors of a compartment remaining open.
Aug 18, 2019, at 09:44 pm
Kolkata, Aug 18 (UNI) Arsalan Parvez (23), accused of causing death to two Bangladeshi corporate officials when his Jaguar rammed a Mercedes Benz which hit the duo at the crossings of Loudon Street and ShakespeareSarani in the city early Saturday was remanded to 12 days police custody by an order from a city court today.
Kolkata: Two Bangladeshis killed as speeding Jaguar rams into them
Aug 17, 2019, at 10:32 pm
Kolkata: Two Bangladeshi nationals were killed as a speeding Jaguar rammed into them after hitting a Mercedes Sedan on Saturday, media reports said.
Heavy rains lash Kolkata, one person dies
Aug 16, 2019, at 05:51 pm
Kolkata, Aug 16 (IBNS): At least one person was killed after being struck by lightning at the Victoria Memorial Complex in Kolkata on Friday.
Kolkata: Suicide at metro station disrupts service
Aug 10, 2019, at 12:56 pm
Kolkata, Aug 10 (IBNS): The service of Kolkata Metro was disrupted on Saturday noon after a person tried to commit suicide at a station.
Teenager drowns in College Square Pool in Kolkata
Aug 04, 2019, at 02:29 pm
Kolkata, Aug 4 (UNI) Seventeen-year-old-boy, identified as Mohammed Shabaj, drowned while learning swimming in the College Square pool in the central part of the city.
Police unearth illegal sex trade in Kolkata, 5 arrested
Aug 03, 2019, at 04:05 pm
Kolkata, Aug 3 (UNI) Police unearthed illegal sex trade in Kolkata and arrested 5 accused, including a spa manager, and rescued four women in the Chowringee area, official sources said today.
Mamata Banerjee to take part in walk to raise environmental awareness
Aug 01, 2019, at 10:22 am
Kolkata, Aug 1 (UNI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will take part in a walk on Thursday to create awareness on environment.
Jul 27, 2019, at 06:45 pm
Kolkata, July 27 (IBNS): In his address at the St. Xaviers's University's First Convocation Day, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday mocked Narendra Modi's 'pakora' remark which the Prime Minister made last year.
Mamata Banerjee's Shahid Divas programme in Kolkata remained flop: BJP
Jul 21, 2019, at 06:28 pm
New Delhi, July 21 (IBNS): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday described West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's 21 July programme in Kolkata as a 'flop'.
Don't worry about Congress, think about TMC: Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury tells Mamata Banerjee
Jul 21, 2019, at 04:57 pm
New Delhi, July 21 (IBNS): Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Sunday targeted the Trinamool Congress and its supremo Mamata Banerjee and said she should think about the future of her own party and not about any other issue.
Return black money, ballot paper voting in elections: Mamata Banerjee at July 21 rally
Jul 21, 2019, at 02:55 pm
Kolkata, Jul 21 (IBNS): In her annual martyrdom observance programme 'Shahid Dibas', West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee launched a fierce campaign against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) where she asked the BJP to return to people the country's black money while demanding the comeback of ballot paper during elections discarding the EVM machines.