Marking the 100th birth anniversary of Habib Tanvir, Antiquity Natural Mineral Water, in partnership with the Kolkata Centre for Creativity (KCC), commemorated a three-day festival, titled ‘Dekh Rahe Hain Nayan’, from 30 August to 1 September this year, to reminisce about the artist’s life, work and immense contributions to Indian theatre, literature and art.
The second International Classical Manipuri Dance Festival was held at Satyajit Ray Auditorium to pay a tribute to the 106th birth anniversary of Guru Bipin Singh by the artistic director Sruti Bandhopadhay under the Horizon series of ICCR.
Policemen in disguise of cyber experts looted Rs 1.01 crore in cash from a railway vendor on the NH-19 in Durgapur allegedly at gunpoint last evening.
A 28 year-old youth of Hooghly district died at R G Kar Medical College Hospital on Friday.
This Sunday will see another spontaneous protest on streets of Kolkata, suburbs and across the country, a call to ‘reclaim the night’.
Among the dedicated railways workforce, a talented voice shines bright. Rimi Chakraborty, a gifted artist and dancer, presently posted as technician-I at the office of principal chief mechanical engineer at Eastern Railway headquarters.
Students of Visva-Bharati University (VBU) are agitating and gheraoed the Santiniketan police station after a third year student had an unnatural death.
Government of India has reintroduced the Open Market Sales Scheme (Domestic) starting from August 2024 for Financial Year 2024-25 for price stabilization and increasing the affordability of the rice.
A repetition of 1 September, 2019-like scenario last night with emergency displacement of residents of Bowbazar in the wee hours, had ‘reached an unbearable point’ according to the evacuees.
A complication has arisen in the Raj Bhavan regarding the anti-rape Bill. Governor C V Ananda Bose has expressed dissatisfaction with the state government’s handling of the Bill, according to sources close to him.
