Somnath Chakraborty

One person was lynched in Howrah’s Bagnan on Tuesday night allegedly for protesting against extortion by a group of rowdies.

Durga Puja sure is a time for creative expression. While some artists showcase their oeuvre for community pujas, others choose to pay tribute to the goddess in their own signature style.

KOLKATA: Fourteen fake driving licences issued for light and me-dium vehicles were seized by the North 24-Parganas district police on Friday.

A 36-year-old man was beaten to death by three of his colleagues - at an unregistered finance company - on their office premises in Tollygunge on Saturday for allegedly cheating the company and some clients by collecting money from them with false promises.

Two youths were arrested on Thursday in connection with Wednesday night's murder of Trinamool supporter Bapan Das in Liluah.

The police rushed to MR Bangur Hospital, where they found out that Amit Ranjan Chatterjee, now dead, had been brought in by one somnath chakraborty. Somnath told the hospital he had found Chatterjee lying injured in a lane.

In just 11 months, a West Midnapore court has pronounced five persons guilty in a gang rape case and awarded life imprisonment to all of them.

A Kolkata exhibition at Nakshatra Art Gallery showcased early modern Indian paintings alongside post-Progressive works and contemporary sculptures. The curatorial approach integrated diverse mediums and generations, fostering comparisons of form, material, and artistic concerns across periods. This arrangement aimed for sustained viewer engagement with artistic processes rather than a hierarchical display.

Tripura's largest tea garden, the Murticherra tea estate at Kailashahar in Unakoti district, has been shut down for an indefinite period, the authorities declared on Monday. The announcement came in the wake of alleged attacks on the estate's general manager and assistant manager on January 14 over non-payment of wages to workers following insolvency.

Cops plan to slap murder charges on the three men arrested on Sunday after their thrashing led to their colleague's death. The police had initially lodged a culpable homicide case, but have decided to change it after the initial post-mortem report revealed the victim had suffered a rupture in his kidneys due to the assault.

As the city starts bidding farewell to Goddess Durga, some Kolkata households neighbouring top-draw Pujas this week heaved a sigh of relief.

KOLKATA: Six times was a time too many, as this barely-30-year-old must now be realising.

KOLKATA: Natural erosion and vandalism were twin evils threaten-ing ‘rock art’ in India, some of them preserved in caves, temples and monasteries over 10,000 years old, Indologists and archaeologists said at the Asiatic Society on Monday.

KMC officials at the borough level have recently been asked to gear up to meet the March deadline for completion of the NPR enrollment process.

A Tollyjunge-Garia-Dhakuria bandh, a state wide college strike and a 15-minute road blockade - SFI on Thursday chose to stick to Kolkata's politically archaic tool to protest the death of 22-year-old Sudipto Gupta in police custody.

Rail and road links to North Bengal and the northeastern states got totally cut off on Sunday as flash floods and landslides sent tracks and roads under water. To make matters worse, the weather department has predicted heavy to very heavy rains for Monday.

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