Month: February 2021

In the run-up to assembly elections in Bengal, the Left Front, along with its allies Congress and the newly formed Indian Secular Front, organised a rally at Kolkata’s Brigade Parade Ground on Sunday in a massive show of strength against the Trinamool Congress and BJP. On social media, many are sharing two images of a […]

KOLKATA: The Board of governors of Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta, the country’s premier B-school, has reportedly passed a resolution against institute director Anju Seth, sources on the campus said. The resolution was passed after faculty members and the director were asked to leave the meeting, the sources said, adding that the resolution may lead to […]

The Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI(M), on Sunday will hold its first mega rally at Kolkata’s Brigade Parade Ground, the biggest open ground in the city located in the sprawling Maidans, prior to the West Bengal assembly polls. In a bid to display the strength of the third front which has taken shape […]

Kolkata: Jesuit priest Bishop Linus Nirmal Gomes, who would have turned 100 in September, breathed his last in the wee hours of Saturday. He was the parish priest of St Teresa Church in Moulali for 20 years and was also the founder of St Peter’s High School, both under the archdiocese of Calcutta. Bishop Linus, […]

February is not yet over and the mercury has already breached 35 degrees. The maximum temperature on Friday and Saturday was 35 and 35.1 degrees respectively. The Met office in Alipore issued an alert on Saturday, warning of a rise in day temperature across south Bengal in the coming days. “Due to continuous prevalence of dry […]

KOLKATA: Calcutta University has decided that the mode of practical examinations will be determined by the individual post-graduate departments after discussing in the respective Board of Studies. It was decided at a meeting on Friday that that the marks of the odd-semester exams will have to be submitted within 21 days. This time the semester […]