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MCCI announces election of Priti A. Sureka as its prez for 2025-26

Kolkata, Sept. 23 -- The Merchants' Chamber of Commerce & Industry (MCCI) has announced the election of Priti A. Sureka as its president for the year 2025-26-the first woman to hold this position in t... Read More


Salt Lake Sector V, New Town reel under waterlogging

Kolkata, Sept. 23 -- Salt Lake Sector V, Bengal's Information Technology (IT) hub, was left completely waterlogged on Tuesday following the heavy downpour. Large parts of Salt Lake, under the Bidhann... Read More


CM holds CESC responsible for electrocution deaths in Kolkata

Kolkata, Sept. 23 -- Following the death of about eight people due to electrocution in Kolkata, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday expressed serious concerns over the role of CESC, empha... Read More


Hatibagan to Jodhpur Park: Heavy rains wreak havoc on Puja preps

KOLKATA, Sept. 23 -- Dark clouds have gathered not only over Kolkata's skies, submerging the city, but also over Durga Puja organisers struggling to save their pandals. Crowd-pulling pandals such as K... Read More


State advances Durga Puja vacation in schools and colleges amid heavy rain

Kolkata, Sept. 23 -- Heavy overnight rain that brought normal life across Kolkata and surrounding areas to a standstill on Tuesday, coupled with forecasts of further inclement weather, prompted the st... Read More


Bengali TV & film industry reel under relentless downpour, flooding

KOLKATA, Sept. 23 -- Aratrika Maity, popularly known as Uji from Zee Bangla's serial 'Jowar Bhata', usually leaves her Ruby More residence around 7.45 pm, reaching Technician Studio within 15 minutes.... Read More


Monsoon mayhem: More rain in a day than in 3 weeks

Kolkata, Sept. 23 -- A torrential downpour brought Kolkata to its knees on Tuesday morning, inundating large parts of the city and crippling transport systems just days ahead of the Durga Puja festivi... Read More


Body recovered in Buxa Tiger Reserve, land dispute suspected

Alipurduar, Sept. 23 -- The body of Subhash Kujur (40), a resident of Latabari under Kalchini Police Station, was recovered from a forest area near Dima Bridge on National Highway 31/C, in the Poro Ba... Read More


Balurghat: Trader, employee jailed for illegal kerosene hoarding, smuggling

BALURGHAT, Sept. 23 -- The Balurghat District Court on Monday sentenced a trader and his employee to three months' rigorous imprisonment in connection with illegal hoarding and smuggling of kerosene o... Read More


Malda: Fatal collision in Kaliachak claims two lives, four people injured

Malda, Sept. 23 -- Tragedy struck early Tuesday morning when a speeding four-wheeler rammed into a toto (battery operated rickshaw) in Kaliachak's Jalalpur Danga area, leaving two people dead and four... Read More