Fire at Esplanade eatery stall disrupts traffic
A massive fire broke out in a food stall at Esplanade this morning, causing major traffic disruption in the area.
A massive fire broke out in a food stall at Esplanade this morning, causing major traffic disruption in the area.
State’s pollution control authorities have slapped Rs 10 lakh fine as bank guarantee against a multinational oil & natural gas giant operating here for 20 years for causing extensive contamination of the Kunur rivulet, the prime source of irrigation for dozens of villages in Kanksa and Laudoha blocks here.
The Ranaghat sub-division administration recently organised a special Utkarsh Bangla Mobilisation Camp at the Ranaghat Employment Exchange office in Rath Tala.
Sebaashray camps started at Metiabruz from today with 5.25 lakh people registering themselves since the inception of the initiative on 2 January.
The Union Budget 2025 has sparked a political storm in West Bengal, with the state BJP hailing it as “pro-people” while the opposition Left and Congress have strongly criticised it, calling it “anti-poor” and a tool for electoral gains ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections and for upcoming elections in some states.
With only a few weeks until Germany’s election, Elon Musk has unambiguously thrown his support behind the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
Relief The Union Budget 2025-26 delivers a substantial tax break to India’s middle class, with the exemption threshold rising to Rs 12 lakh from Rs 7 lakh.
For decades, the prevailing assumption in technology circles has been that the West, led by the United States, enjoys an unassailable dominance in advanced research and innovation.
Outgoing US President Joe Biden in his farewell address spoke of “dangerous concentration of power in the hands of very few ultra-wealthy people, and the dangerous consequences if their abuse of power was left unchecked,” underlining threats to the institutions that govern American society by placement of plutocrats in bodies deciding public policy and the monopolistic control over personal data and misinformation campaigns by some wealthy individuals ~ which was shaping political discourse and public perception.
Ananth Narayan Mahadevan’s latest foray into the world of movies, The Storyteller, is a haunting ode to motion pictures.
