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AIU meet: 100 V-Cs to discuss diversity & sustainability

KOLKATA, March 17 -- More than 100 vice-chancellors (V-Cs) from eastern India, representing Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttar Pr... Read More


Violating replantation rule: KMC mulls stern steps for developers

Kolkata, March 17 -- The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is planning to make its rules tougher for obtaining completion certificates (CC) by developers in cases where big trees are being cut down ... Read More


'Bengal witnesses record 18.4 cr tourist footfall till date this yr'

Kolkata, March 17 -- Bengal Tourism Minister Indranil Sen on Monday said the state witnessed a record footfall of 18.4 crore tourists till date this year. During the question answer session in the st... Read More


TMC gears up to strengthen organisation, review meet to be held at booth level

Kolkata, March 17 -- Following Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee's instruction to strengthen booth level organisation especially in those where his party lost in a ... Read More


Joymalya Bagchi sworn-in as SC judge

Kolkata, March 17 -- Justice Joymalya Bagchi was sworn in as a judge of the Supreme Court (SC) on Monday. Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna administered the oath to Justice Bagchi at a full court ... Read More


City-born scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak wins 2025 Holberg Prize

Kolkata, March 17 -- Kolkata-born literary theorist and scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been awarded the 2025 Holberg Prize of Norway. Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee congratulated the p... Read More


Modi govt is biased, politicising Railway Budget: Trinamool

Kolkata, March 17 -- The Trinamool Congress (TMC) strongly criticised the Narendra Modi-led Central government for reducing the Railway Budget allocation for non-BJP-ruled states such as Bengal, Keral... Read More


Government says 28,818 insolvency pleas resolved under IBC

New Delhi, March 17 -- As many as 40,943 applications were filed under the the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), of which 28,818 applications involving Rs 10 lakh crore were resolved even before a... Read More


State sets up 3 nodal centres for scrub typhus & leptospirosis testing

Kolkata, March 17 -- To check scrub typhus and leptospirosis, the state Health department has taken a new initiative by introducing three nodal centres in the state - SSKM, Calcutta School of Tropical... Read More


Rape of minor: Three held

Cooch Behar, March 17 -- Police have arrested three individuals in connection with rape of a 16-year-old girl in the Cooch Behar district. The accused have been identified as Ramesh Barman (65), Jhare... Read More