Category: kolkata

Zero tolerance for violence, says CEC Gyanesh Kumar; State BJP leadership urges workers to remain calm; DGP tells aggrieved parties to approach police and not break the law

The accused had been living in Surat using fake identity documents in the name of Amit Sharma. The agency produced him before a local court there to get his transit remand to Kolkata.

The event, called ‘2026 Dosti ki Iftar’ and being organised by the Deeniyat Muallima College (located in Santragachi, across the river from Kolkata) and the city-based initiative Know Your Neighbour, intends to “provide a space for women to exchanges their views, and break myths and stereotypes”.

CPI(M) State secretary Mohammad Salim added that many vulnerable people from tribal communities, women, rented accommodation holders, street dwellers stand a chance to be omitted in the SIR process due to lack of concrete documents and should be looked into.  

The incident took place on Saturday evening when the class 7 student was returning from tuition classes, the officer said

The State Government will be finally closing the centralised admission portal on October 10, and it has asked colleges to individually fill up vacant seats after that date and complete the whole process by November 7.

Artist Pradip Das explores parallels between poems from the Gaza strip and the depictions of hunger and death in Bengali poetry on the famine; they are connected, despite being several kilometres and years apart, he says

The people who sacrifice festive joy to keep Kolkata’s grandest celebration running

At a media sensitisation meet, experts stress that reporting on children must balance public interest with privacy, consent, and long-term wellbeing

Sunali Bibi a resident of Paikar in Birbhum, her husband Danish, and their eight-year-old son were pushed into Bangladesh on June 26 after being detained by the Delhi Police. Sunali is eight months pregnant