Month: July 2022

Kolkata: After a search of Arpita Mukherjee’s Belgharia flat, agency officers unearthed documents that suggested a textile company was run from the premises. Incorporated in 2012, the company — Ananta Texfab — had the flat as its registered office. The investigators said they had reasons to believe that like other two companies that operated from […]

KOLKATA: The city was lashed by a spell of heavy downpour late on Friday morning that led to waterlogging in several stretches of central and south Kolkata. The rain triggered by clouds floating in from Bangladesh was accompanied by frequent lightning strikes. While the shower lasted for more than an hour, the Met office said […]

Kolkata: Around 400 coders spent over eight hours at the Netaji Indoor Stadium on Friday, solving challenges on ransomware, boot 2 root, and dark web in the first hackathon hosted by the Kolkata Police. After gruelling rounds, like Live Ransomware, Forensics, Dark Web and Forensics, 10 winners were identified who will help cops solve complex […]

Kolkata: An hour’s heavy downpour that began on Friday noon flooded New Market. Over 500 traders in the Grade-I heritage market landed in trouble due to waterlogging in the entire market. The shoppers were equally perturbed as they had to wade through ankle-deep dirty water but couldn’t finish shopping as the majority of them struggled […]

KOLKATA: West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday in connection with a recruitment scam in government schools, was shifted to AIIMS in Bhubaneshwar on Monday morning from the state-run multi-super-specialty SSKM hospital in Kolkata. The move comes after the Calcutta high court on Sunday raised questions about […]

KOLKATA: The Calcutta high court Sunday asked the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to fly out arrested Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee to AIIMS Bhubaneswar by air ambulance early Monday, get him examined by a battery of specialists there and report back by 3pm, just in time for a special PMLA court in Kolkata to begin hearing the […]

In its order, Justice Bibek Chaudhuri stated, “…our experience as a common man with regard to the role of the doctors attached to the SSKM Super speciality Hospital is not a happy one. In the recent past, more than one high-ranking political leaders belonging to the ruling party were arrested or directed to appear before […]

KOLKATA: The Calcutta high court Sunday asked the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to fly out arrested Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee to AIIMS Bhubaneswar by air ambulance early Monday, get him examined by a battery of specialists there and report back by 3pm, just in time for a special PMLA court in Kolkata to begin hearing the […]