Kolkata

Former Delhi Police official arrested in Haryana

7:19 pm June 19, 2020

Chandigarh: The Haryana Police on Friday arrested a former Delhi policeman allegedly involved in several criminal cases, including looting ATMs, from Nuh district. The accused identified as Aslup is a former Delhi policeman and wanted by the police in Haryana, Kerala, Maharashtra, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Gujarat, Udaipur (Rajasthan) and Odisha in many criminal cases, a spokesperson […]

Commercial flight operations resume at Agartala airport

9:16 pm May 29, 2020

Agartala: Commercial flight operations resumed at the Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport here on Friday with 166 passengers arriving on a plane from Kolkata, officials said. Private carrier IndiGo operated the flight from Kolkata to Agartala, they said. The aircraft landed at 10 am and the return flight to Kolkata took off at 11:15 am. “166 […]

Cyclone Amphan: Parts of Kolkata limp back to normalcy

4:12 pm May 26, 2020

Kolkata: Drinking water and electricity supply have been restored in large swathes of Kolkata ravaged by Cyclone Amphan even as some parts of the city witnessed protests over lack of essential services. According to Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) sources, the restoration work is on at a war footing and they are hopeful that all the […]

Certifying Quantum Entanglement: A step towards Quantum Security

11:43 am May 22, 2020

New Delhi: Scientists from S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (SNBNCBS), Kolkata, an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology have developed a novel protocol to find out whether a pair of electrons is in an entangled state so that they can be safely used as resources for facilitating quantum information […]

Army, NDRF teams start restoration work in cyclone-hit Bengal

Cyclone Amphan dumps rain on India, Bangladesh

10:11 am May 20, 2020

New Delhi: A powerful cyclone began dumping rain on coastal India and Bangladesh early Wednesday as more than 2 million people were being moved to shelters before the storm hits land in the afternoon. Cyclone Amphan slowed slightly as it reached cooler waters near the coast. But with wind speeds ranging between 160 and 170 […]