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Kolkata: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be on a day-long visit to the West Bengal capital on Sunday and address a rally to “clear the confusion” surrounding the amended Citizenship Act, BJP sources said on Saturday. He is scheduled to address the rally at the Shaheed Minar Ground, where the state unit of the […]
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বঙ্গবন্ধুর জন্মশতবর্ষ শুরুর আগে কাল রোববার কলকাতায় বাংলাদেশ উপহাইকমিশনের কর্মকর্তারা গোপালগঞ্জের টুঙ্গিপাড়ায় যাচ্ছেন। সেখানে তাঁরা বঙ্গবন্ধুর সমাধিতে শ্রদ্ধা নিবেদন করবেন। এই দলে রয়েছেন কলকাতায় নিযুক্ত বাংলাদেশের উপহাইকমিশনার তৌফিক হাসান, দূতাবাসপ্রধান বিএম জামাল হোসেন, কাউন্সিলর (কনস্যুলার) বশির উদ্দিন, কাউন্সিলর (ক্রীড়া ও শিক্ষা) শেখ সফিউল ইমাম, প্রথম সচিব (প্রেস) মোফাখখারুল ইকবাল, প্রথম সচিব (রাজনৈতিক-১) শামীমা ইয়াসমীন, দ্বিতীয় […]
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KOLKATA: The Calcutta high court has said production of original foreign passport is not mandatory for applying for Indian citizenship if the applicant has stayed in India for seven years and is married to an Indian citizen and has evidence of both. The order followed a plea by Bismilla Khan, a Pakhtoon, who claimed to […]
Continue ReadingAn illegal arms manufacturing unit was busted in Nimta on the city’s northern fringes and two persons were arrested on Wednesday night.Pistols and revolvers were being manufactured at the factory, around 16km from the heart of Calcutta, CID sources said. One of the arrested persons is a “receiver” who had gone to buy weapons and […]
Continue ReadingMessages of peace and communal harmony reverberated at a programme to celebrate a rising together to end violence against women. A 30-year-old woman sang John Lennon’s Imagine and the words “Imagine there’s no countries/It isn’t hard to do/Nothing to kill or die for/And no religion too/Imagine all the people living in peace” echoed what many […]
Continue ReadingAn IndiGo flight from Bangkok to Varanasi was diverted to Calcutta on Sunday because of bad weather in Varanasi, officials said. Flight 6E 98, carrying 121 passengers, landed in Calcutta at 9.47am and flew to Varanasi later in the day, said airport officials.Inspection tourMayor Firhad Hakim visited several parts of south Calcutta on Sunday to […]
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A new boarding area with at least 10 aerobridges, more security check-in and airline check-in counters and additional parking bays….Work is set to start on Phase I of the expansion of the Calcutta airport following the approval of the project by the Airports Authority of India.Officials said the Airports Authority of India had recently sanctioned […]
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KOLKATA: The Majerhat bridge reconstruction project received a shot in the arm on Friday with the Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS) giving its nod for building the superstructure. The CRS’s sanction came hours after chief minister Mamata Banerjee mentioned the pending approval at the Eastern Zonal Council meeting with Union home minister Amit Shah in […]
Continue ReadingUnion Home Minister Amit Shah will attend the inauguration of 29 Special Composite Group Complex of National Security Guard (NSG) in Rajarhat on Sunday.The Home Minister is also scheduled to address two public meetings in Kolkata the same day.Shah is currently on a two-day visit to Odisha where he chaired the 24th meeting of the […]
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KOLKATA: Waiting in serpentine queues at blood banks will soon be a thing of the past as the system is set to go online, with the state health department planning to introduce e-requisition of blood. An orientation training on e-requisition software was held for representatives of all the 73 state-run blood banks at Swasthya Bhawan […]
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