With the city gripping in festive fervour, the Kolkata Metro Railway has strengthened security arrangements at key Metro stations, including Esplanade, Park Street, Maidan, Rabindra Sadan, Dum Dum and Dakshineswar.
Park Street, YWCA hall hosted comic artists, graphic novelists, and writers from all around India for the annual Indie Comix Fest, 2025. “This is a self-published festival for comics and graphic novels.
Park Street police station has arrested Mujibur Rahaman, a political leader of Birbhum district for allegedly raping a housewife in a hotel in Park Street about a month ago.
Aiming to cater to the anticipated crowd, the Kolkata Metro Railway has decided to strengthen security arrangements at Esplanade, Park Street, Maidan, Rabindra Sadan, Dum Dum and Dakshineswar Metro stations on 31 December.
Twelve engines including a hydraulic ladder were pressed into service to douse the blaze.
While having ice cream at Park Street, homemaker Shilpa Maheta. who had come with her two kids said, “Christmas is about plum cakes from a Jewish bakery, a suckling pig roasting on the green lawns of one of the city's starchy clubs and attending the midnight mass at St Paul's Cathedral.”
In Kolkata, Christmas is not about just the Christians but it belongs to everyone irrespective of his religion, caste or age.
The court stated this after one of the accused, after Ali Khan alias Azhar Ali, had moved court seeking high court's intervention to expedite the trial of the case.
The Division Bench then fixed Kumar's anticipatory bail plea, which was filed yesterday, for hearing on Wednesday.
A source in the CBI said the agency could use it as a "substantial proof of “non-cooperation” on the part of the former city police chief.
