Soma Das

In an unprecedented move, the Election Commission has transferred 59 Kolkata police officers, including joint commissioners and DCPs, following recent political clashes. This marks the ninth mass transfer, bringing the total to 542 officers since March 16. Key positions in crime, headquarters, and intelligence have seen new appointments, aiming to ensure fair conduct during the general election.

Kolkata voters are baffled after their names were removed from electoral rolls despite submitting passports and domicile certificates. Many are repeatedly presenting these official documents to tribunals, seeking to reinstate their voting rights for upcoming elections. Despite providing government-issued proof, citizens are left questioning what further evidence is required to be recognized as legitimate voters.

Voters in Kolkata faced difficulties filing tribunal appeals offline, being turned away from government offices due to holidays and election-related duties. With supplementary lists published, deleted electors have a limited 15-day window to appeal, raising concerns about missing the deadline to reinstate their voting rights.

Several thousand homes in the Ekbalpore-Watgunge-Kidderpore belt have access to electricity without meters, with supplies provided by the power mafia at ad-hoc rates of Rs 800 a month for operating an AC, Rs 200 a month for running a washing machine and Rs 200 a month for a light and a fan in a room.

soma das, a cancer survivor, is the sole teacher spared in the Supreme Court's SSC verdict, which scrapped 25,752 appointments due to a job scam. Despite her relief, she is saddened by her colleagues' job losses, as she believes many qualified teachers are unfairly affected by the SSC's failure to provide proper documentation.

Calcutta High Court on Monday asked the school education secretary to consider the appointment of soma das, a cancer patient, on “humanitarian grounds” against a teaching post vacancy in state-aided schools.

soma das, a cancer survivor, remains distressed despite retaining her teaching job due to humanitarian grounds. She sympathizes with other teachers who lost their positions in the job scam, expressing that their fight was also hers. Das relies on her salary to fund her medical treatment.

soma das, a cancer survivor, is the sole candidate unaffected by Calcutta High Court's termination of SSC's 2016 selection process. She advocates for reappointing genuine candidates based on merit.

A 15-year-old Class-X student from Howrah's Salkia died after falling from the roof of her school building on Monday.

A gang of five youths shot dead a 24-year-old woman at Halishahar in North 24-Parganas on Monday evening.

Music is a universal language that reflects mankind along with nature, and to enjoy the music we rarely explore these days we have to acknowledge village singers, prabhat pheris, ceremonial songs and Baraat bands. Kolkata Street Music Festival does that with an honest attempt. The third edition of the music carnival was held recently at ICCR paying a tribute to musicians we never acknowledge in the todays time.

A 28-year-old arrested in connection with his wife’s alleged suicide, jumped off the second floor of the Barasat district court building on Wednesday.

About 20 students and a teacher were injured when the roof of their classroom at Purba Para Sishu Siksha Niketan in Barasat collapsed.

Thirteen artists who contributed to the Alipore Jail Museum exhibition ‘Freedom and Awakening’ shortly after the museum’s inauguration last year, held a panel discussion at the museum on Monday exploring the art forms that have shaped India’s transition to Independence.

The fire department has also ordered a forensic probe into the blaze that destroyed the paint shop and coach factory section of the 196-year old factory on Monday night.

Park Street police have arrested four for the murder of a 22-year-old woman, whose body was recovered from Alimuddin-Ripon Street crossing.

Five picnickers from two families were killed and 12 others injured when a truck ploughed into their stationary vehicle in Rejionagar on NH-34 in Murshidabad on Tuesday morning, reports Sukumar Mahato. The group from Ranaghat had hired a mini-truck for a picnic in Lalbagh. They had stopped at a tea stall at Bhangasanko on the highway when the speeding truck rammed their vehicle.

Popularly known as Somadas Chathannoor, the singer was under treatment for Covid-19 at Paripally Medical College in Kollam.

CID on Friday took charge of investigation of the alleged torture on a woman by policemen in Birbhum’s Sattor village.

Many eminent literary personalities from India and other parts of south Asia will attend a two-day literary event, Utkal Literature Festival (ULF), here from October 10.

KOLKATA: Over 150 persons were saved from a possible disaster when they set out to illegally mine after security forces chased them away shortly before an abandoned mine was beginning to cave in.

For a change, teachers enjoyed and broke loose from discipline at the Times NIE Teachers' Meet 2017-18 held recently at Adlabs Imagica.