Month: January 2021

KOLKATA: The Mundama Ganga Parikrama, an initiative by ex-service men reached Kolkata on Sunday before their trip further south to Gangasagar. The walkathon, which aims to be the longest one on the earth, will cover 6000+ kilometers. The entire MGP entourage was given a warm welcome at Indiatourism, Kolkata office. MGP is revival of an […]

A heartwarming video of an elderly couple dancing at a restaurant in Kolkata is spreading cheer among netizens after it went viral on social media. The clip, which was shared on Instagram by user @thebohobaalika, features the couple grooving to the beats of ‘Woh chali woh chali’ by Bombay Vikings played by a band at […]

KOLKATA: A 17-year-old from Maharashtra’s Beed has made a name for himself in a film on boxing. Shabir Sheikh, who lost his sight due to an infection, has now acted in a film which is perhaps India’s first movie on boxing where a visually impaired actor has played a blind boxer. Sheikh was trained in […]

KOLKATA: The city’s air link with Sikkim will be revived on Monday when SpiceJet resumes flights from Kolkata to Pakyong airport after a 20-month hiatus. The airline will operate the Bombardier Q400 turboprop aircraft with a 78-passenger capacity on the sector six days a week. “The flight will take off from Kolkata at 9.45am and […]

KOLKATA: Indian cricket board chief Sourav Ganguly was discharged from hospital on Sunday morning, three days after he underwent a fresh round of angioplasty to clear clogged coronary arteries, officials said. The 48-year-old cricket legend was hospitalised on Wednesday for the second time in a month due to his cardiac condition. On Thursday, two more […]

KOLKATA: Primary Teachers Eligibility Test (TET), which was last held in 2015, will be the first public examination to be conducted offline on Sunday. Only online exams are currently being conducted due to the pandemic. Around 2.5 lakh candidates are expected to appear for TET at 1,000-odd centres. There are over 16,500 vacancies that are […]

KOLKATA: Kolkata Police has ordered surveillance and security equipment, including eight long-range drones with high resolution cameras, ahead of Assembly polls. The budget for buying the gadgets is Rs 72 lakh. Of the eight drones, four will have a range of over 3.5 km and the other four will be short-range ones. The drones will […]

JALPAIGURI: Justice Ashis Kumar Chakraborty of Calcutta High Court, who was scheduled to join the Jalpaiguri circuit bench from Monday till February 12, died of a cardiac arrest at a private nursing home in Siliguri on Saturday. He was 56. Justice Chakraborty was first taken to the district hospital in Darjeeling, where he had arrived […]

KOLKATA: A three-year-old boy, who was kidnapped from Chittaranjan Avenue between 11.30pm on January 24 and 4.30am on January 25, was rescued nearly 72 hours later from Jharkhand following a coordinated operation involving police forces in Kolkata, Howrah and Asansol and Koderma in Jharkhand. A resident of Karaya has been arrested in connection with the […]