Saurabh Das

With Wipro accepting West Bengal Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation (Hidco)'s offer of 50 acres in Rajarhat at Rs 1.5 crore per acre, at least 50 small IT companies are said to have lined up to get a share of the land pie.

Bengal reported 76.5% voting till 5pm on Sunday to elect 2,171 councillors across 108 municipalities, dubbed as the mini-assembly polls. The state poll body and police received around 1,000 complaints in which 51 people were arrested and another 787 taken into preventive custody.

The State Election Commission on Monday ordered fresh polling in two booths — one each in South Dum Dum and Serampore — out of the 11,000 where civic elections were held on Sunday.

Directed by Calcutta High Court, the state election commissioner held a meeting with the chief secretary and DGP on Thursday evening and hinted they were in favour of deploying state police for the Bidhannagar civic elections on Saturday.

Calcutta High Court, like it did earlier on civic poll-related matters, left it to the State Election Commission (SEC) to take the final call on deployment of paramilitary forces ahead of elections to 108 municipalities on February 27.

Heavy last-hour polling, which saw the voter turnout increase from 52% at 3pm to 63.6% at 5pm — a few notches below the 68.5% recorded in the 2015 civic polls — dissipated early fears of a low turnout as 144 wards of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation went to the polls on Sunday.

With the Union urban development ministry recently selecting Rajarhat New Town as one of the eight upcoming satellite townships of the country, the Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation (Hidco), the township's nodal implementing agency, wants to cash in on this opportunity to develop.

A case of cheating, breach of trust and cheating by impersonation was registered against 15 people who ran a call centre in Jodhpur area for allegedly duping American citizens.

The shooting for Sandip Ray���s Bengali film Badshahi Angti, based on his father Satyajit Ray���s story, shifted to the heart of the city, Hazratganj, on Saturday.

Tamil Nadu thrashed Tripura by eight wickets in a Group 'B' match of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy T20 cricket tournament on Friday.

Uttar Pradesh reduced Tripura to 33/4 after piling up 552/7 declared in their Elite Group C Ranji Trophy match on Sunday.

Singer Priyanka Kher who earlier grabbed the eyeballs with her popular release 'Junagadh Sher Ni Bajar Ma' has now once again captivated the hearts of music lovers with another musical piece 'Dev Dwarika Vala'.

KOLKATA: The Asian Development Bank is expected to give a grant of $525,000 for Sunderbans development in June, Saurabh Das, secretary, Sunderban affairs department, told TNN on Saturday.

In the backdrop of the government's tussle with the state election commission over the conduct of the panchayat polls, the debate on governor M K Narayanan's address in the state assembly was extended for a day - till Thursday - to apparently allow the chief minister to reply to it.

The student Neeraj Kumar was taken into the custody by a team of Kolkata police who visited the state capital, after his name came to light regarding the racket.