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Power outages plague Kolkata and outskirts

In case of mechanical failures, customers will be informed via SMS. Additionally, CESC has been instructed to increase mobile vans, power generators and workers deployed for maintenance.

‘Homoeopathy has the power to heal certain diseases holistically’

He is a familiar face on Bengali television and has acted in a number of popular daily soaps over the past decades. But many don’t know that Dr Bikash Bhowmik is also a successful and sought-after homoeopathic doctor who spends his one off-day attending to patients who come from far and wide in his chamber in Kolkata.

KMRCL finalises tender for rebuilding 26 Bowbazar houses

In what comes as a ray of hope for the displaced residents of the subsidence affected zone in Bowbazar, the implementing agency of the ongoing Metro project in the area, Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation Limited, has finalised the tender for reconstruction of the houses.

Bankura film on paddy cultivation screened at Kiff

The 29th edition of KIFF screened Kalamkathi, a feature film from Bankura that talks about a nearly lost variety of Bengal's own conventional paddy cultivation in which the use of chemical fertilizer is prohibited.

Fund defalcation: SBSTC terminates agency’s contract

South Bengal State Transport Corporation, the state-owned passenger transport major, finally has terminated the controversial agency’s contract, accused of siphoning Rs 7.19cr from its e-ticketing system since 2014.