Kolkata

Bhagwat on 5-day visit to Bihar from Feb 9

Mohan Bhagwat in Kolkata tomorrow

10:18 pm July 31, 2019

Kolkata: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat will be in the city on Thursday and will meet RSS functionaries to discuss organisational issues. RSS sources said on Wednesday that Bhagwat will be in the city for a brief period on his way to Odisha from Jharkhand. The RSS, the ideological fountainhead of BJP, has made steady inroads […]

OPD services affected in West Bengal state-run hospitals

2:08 pm July 31, 2019

Kolkata: The Outdoor Patient Departments in most state-run hospitals in West Bengal were affected on Wednesday after doctors stayed away from providing non- essential services, in response to an IMA call. However, emergency services and other departments remained operational. The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has called for a 24-hour withdrawal of non-essential services across the […]

Law & order situation should be improved in Bengal: Tripathi

3:28 pm July 28, 2019

Kolkata: Outgoing Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi has described his experience in West Bengal as “sweet and sour”, maintaining that education and law-and-order situation in the state should to be improved to ensure its overall progress. Tripathi, who has had several run-ins with the Trinamool Congress government during his five-year stint, said “somehow” industrialists were not […]

Pakistani intruder killed by BSF along International Border in Jammu

Six Bangladeshis apprehended by BSF

7:36 pm July 26, 2019

Kolkata: The Border Security Force (BSF) Friday apprehended six Bangladeshi and one Indian national while they were trying to cross the international boundary illegally in West Bengal. “We had apprehended six Bangladeshi national and one Indian national during the night when they were trying to crossover to India and vice verse. They were arrested from […]

Arun favourite to retain his job, Bangar under scanner

3:11 pm July 26, 2019

Kolkata: India’s current bowling coach Bharat Arun is likely to retain his position even if there are multiple candidates while R Sridhar will have his nose ahead despite South African star Jonty Rhodes throwing his hat in the ring for the fielding coach’s position. But batting coach Sanjay Bangar might find it difficult to retain […]