Syed Amir Ali

Businessman Pawan Ruia was apprehended by Bengal Police in connection with a major interstate investment fraud. The arrest followed the Calcutta High Court's decision to revoke protection orders. Investigations reveal a complex network of shell companies and cryptocurrency use, linking Ruia to over 1,300 cyber fraud cases nationwide. This follows a previous arrest in 2016.

Mohd Arshad and Chaand were arrested in Lucknow for allegedly assisting Pak spy Syed Ali. Though officials refused to confirm this, but sources say a cop has also been arrested for helping Ali get an Indian passport.

After a two-month break from early morning and afternoon traffic snarls, the city returned to bumper-to-bumper traffic in school zones in south and central Kolkata on Monday.

KOLKATA: For the three lakh-plus commuters who sweat it out at the Park Circus seven-point crossing everyday, there's much to look forward to.

A garbage vat overflowing with muck but that could easily hide a bomb or two gunmen. Abandoned vehicles that could hide explosives.

The traffic police is set to provide inputs on the proposed flyover between Park Circus and Gariahat that is expected to relieve thousands of commuters on Syed Amir Ali Avenue. Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) has engaged consulting agency RITES to complete its latest traffic survey in order to complete the elevated corridor.

There was no respite from excruciating jams on the Park Circus-Parama flyover even on Mahalaya, a holiday.

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has begun ironing out the bumpy road surfaces on Syed Amir Ali Avenue and Gariahat Road so that motorists and two-wheeler riders experience a smoother ride. Sovabazar Street has already had such a makeover.

Two men, suspected to have helped an alleged Pakistani spy in procuring passport and driving licence using forged documents, were arrested today by the Anti-Terrorist Squad of Uttar Pradesh police in Lucknow.

The city roads turned nightmarish for commuters on Wednesday morning, what with all schools reopening after summer vacation and the monsoon setting in. The situation was compounded in the afternoon by breakdowns of vehicles at critical points and political protests in front of the state election commission’s office located near major schools.

In a respite for commuters — especially for school students — travelling to Gariahat and Ballygunge from Salt Lake and beyond, Kolkata Traffic Police has opened up an alternative route.

On a day when senior opposition MPs and even his own family paid their condolences to Sultan Ahmed in New Delhi's Constitutional Club, a CBI team on Tuesday reached the former MP's office at Syed Amir Ali Avenue to reconstruct the events shot during the Narada sting operations before the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.