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Bengal registers record recovery of 4,283 COVID patients

8:45 pm November 6, 2020

Kolkata: West Bengal on Friday reported the highest single-day recovery of 4,283 COVID-19 patients, taking the total number of cured people to 3,54,732, the health department said in a bulletin. The death toll mounted to 7,177 after 55 more people succumbed to the disease. The bulletin said that 3,942 people tested positive for the infection […]

Patient dies by suicide at SSKM Hospital in Kolkata

7:05 pm November 6, 2020

Kolkata: The police on Friday morning recovered the body of a patient from a bathroom of the state- run SSKM Hospital, in the southern part of the city, an officer here said. The patient, who was undergoing treatment at the Curzon Ward of the hospital, allegedly died by hanging himself from the ceiling of the […]

Rally in city against Macron’s comments

11:59 pm November 4, 2020

Kolkata: Around 500 members of All Bengal Minority Youth Federation took out a rally in central Kolkata on Wednesday protesting against French President Emmanuel Macron for comments allegedly made by him about a teacher who was decapitated for showing caricatures of Prophet Muhammad. The demonstrations in the city’s Esplanade area, which followed anti-France protests in […]

IIM Calcutta student found dead inside hostel room

12:15 am November 1, 2020

Kolkata: A student of IIM Calcutta was found dead inside her hostel room on Saturday, police said. The body of 28-year-old Payel Khandelwal was found hanging from the ceiling of her room on the third floor of the hostel building on the institute’s Joka campus, they said. The door was bolted from inside and had […]

Army jawan’s mortal remains consigned to flames

11:54 pm October 31, 2020

Nashik: An Army jawan who died at a military hospital in Kolkata after an illness was cremated at his native village in Nashik district on Saturday. Jawan Manoraj Sonawane was attached to the 21 Paratroopers and posted in Arunachal Pradesh. He died at a hospital in Kolkata on Friday, an official release said here. He was cremated with […]