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Centre’s insensitive attitude, indifference to be blamed: Mamata on Delhi violence

1:08 pm January 27, 2021

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday that the Centre’s “insensitive attitude” and indifference towards farmers are to be blamed for the violent protests in Delhi, maintaining that she was deeply disturbed by the situation. Banerjee urged the Centre to engage with the farmers and repeal the new farm laws, which she […]

25 shacks gutted in Kolkata fire

9:19 pm January 25, 2021

Kolkata: Around 25 shanties were destroyed in a fire that broke out in Narkeldanga area of Kolkata on Monday, an official said. No casualty was reported in the fire incident. People of Chhagalpatti locality on East Canal Road noticed the blaze in shades meant to keep goats at around 9.40 am. The fire later spread […]

Schoolgirl found dead in Kolkata’s Bangur

4:50 pm January 25, 2021

Kolkata: The body of a schoolgirl was found in a pool of blood in northeast Kolkata’s Bangur area, police said on Monday. It is suspected that the teenaged girl, a resident of Lake Town, died by suicide after jumping off a multistoried building in Bangur Block A where the body was found on Sunday evening, […]

Direct flight services between Delhi and Sikkim commence

7:46 pm January 23, 2021

Gangtok: Direct flight services between Delhi and Sikkim commenced on Saturday with a SpiceJet aircraft landing at Pakyong airport in the Himalayan state with 57 passengers, officials said. Commercial flight services to the tabletop airport commenced after nearly one-and-half years after the private airliner halted its operations between Kolkata and Pakyong inJune 2019 due to […]

PM pays tributes to Netaji on eve of birth anniversary

7:19 pm January 22, 2021

New Delhi: A day ahead of Subhas Chandra Bose’s 125th birth anniversary, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday paid rich tributes to the preeminent freedom fighter and wished his thoughts and ideals inspire a strong, confident and self-reliant India that he would be proud of. In a series of tweets, Modi recalled the association of […]