Kolkata

AI to operate direct Kolkata-London flight from Sep 16

7:34 pm September 4, 2020

Kolkata: With regular international flights stalled owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, Air India is set to operate direct flights between Kolkata and London, primarily for the purpose of repatriation, under the Centre’s Vande Bharat mission, a spokesperson for the airline said. The flights between NSC Bose International Airport here and Heathrow in London will operate […]

IIT-Kharagpur researchers turn Odisha steel plant dumpsites into greenbelt

Internet snapped in students’ hostels; IIT Kharagpur says given them enough time to leave

8:37 pm September 3, 2020

Kolkata: Amid charges that IIT Kharagpur authorities snapped internet connection in hostels of students and research scholars so that they are forced to vacate rooms, the management on Thursday said that they were repeatedly asked to leave since the end of June. While over 10,000 students had left the campus since the COVID-19 pandemic struck, about 100 […]

Wearing a ‘gamcha’, Mukherjee used to walk 2 km barefoot to school in monsoon: friend

9:26 pm September 1, 2020

Kolkata: Pranab Mukherjee, who headed several key ministries before becoming the President, used to walk two kilometres barefoot while going to a village school in West Bengal’s Birbhum district wearing a ‘gamcha’ (traditional towel) during the monsoon in the 1940s, his friend Prof Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay said. Reminiscing his association with Mukherjee for nearly seven decades since […]

After Sunny Leone, it is Neha Kakkar’s turn to figure in Bengal college merit list

7:56 pm August 30, 2020

Kolkata: Bollywood singer Neha Kakkar’s name appeared at the top of the merit list of a college in West Bengal‘s Malda district, after actress Sunny Leone’s name figured in that of three other colleges of the state. The authorities of Manikchak College in Malda district said that they spotted the playback singer’s name after the first merit list was published […]

Sunny Leone’s name on merit list of Kolkata college

11:29 pm August 27, 2020

Kolkata: Bollywood actor Sunny Leone’s name “mischievously” made it to the top of the merit list for admission to an undergraduate programme of a Kolkata college on Thursday. The first list for the admission to BA (Honours) in English at Asutosh College posted on its website had the actor’s name at the top. Application ID and roll number accompanied the name on the […]