Embarkation headquarters Kolkata gets a new commandant
Group Captain Pankaj Upadhyay took over as Commandant, Embarkation Headquarters, Kolkata, today.
Group Captain Pankaj Upadhyay took over as Commandant, Embarkation Headquarters, Kolkata, today.
Doctors in Kolkata say current Covid-19 infections largely resemble the Omicron pattern, with mild symptoms in most cases, though elderly people and those with underlying illnesses remain vulnerable.
The exiled Bangladeshi writer accused sections of the Left of hypocrisy and appeasement politics, while maintaining that her return to Kolkata has been organised by a secular organisation and not any political party.
Attention all hagglers of Gariahat. Yes, those of you who pride themselves on negotiating prices down till the vendor has slashed them by more than half.
The Kolkata Police have started a fraud case following complaints from Lok Bhavan that a caller was contacting various officials from a particular mobile number impersonating Governor RN Ravi.
Four days after taking responsibility, the BJP government in West Bengal issued a fresh notification banning animal slaughter in public places.
The reported plan of the new BJP government in West Bengal to shift the state secretariat back to the Writers’ Building in BBD Bagh from Nabanna, may be presented as a pragmatic step and a return to heritage.
The Sunday before Kolkata went to the polls Dola Mitra, Statesman Features Editor did an impromptu interview of Dr Swapan Dasgupta, BJP candidate from the Rashebehari constituency, who of course, won the seat. At that time when she asked, “In case BJP comes to power in the state”....he had said “Not Âin caseÊ but ÂwhenÊ BJP comes to power in the state.” He was right.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday performed a “sashtanga pranam” before the people of West Bengal at the Brigade Parade Ground during the oath-taking ceremony of the state’s first BJP government.
Kshudiram Tudu, who took oath as a minister in the ninth state Cabinet on Saturday, has long been associated with Burdwan as a schoolteacher.
