Author: Kumaran

Kolkata singer Soumita Saha and French musician Greg Sauzet’s Indo-French collaborations that left music lovers in awe last year has now been officially selected for the prestigious Lift Off Filmmaker Session Film festival 2023. Tow experimental Tagore Music projects by these two musicians had impressed one and all recently as Greg Sauzet from France and […]

Kolkata: A handful of university students — from minority backgrounds, some with an experience of mental health issues and others from the LGBTQI+ community — talked about their thoughts on inclusion and diversity to US consul general Melinda Pavek during the inauguration of the US pavilion at the book fair on Tuesday. Among others, the […]

Kolkata: The bio-mining across legacy dump sites in Bengal has led to reclaiming of land in key urban areas and has opened up employment opportunities with the setting up of material recovery facilities (MRFs) across the state. It is a definitive move towards waste to wealth, said Bengal’s environment and water resources investigation and development […]

Kolkata: A Calcutta High Court single bench on Monday imposed a fine of Rs 11,000 on CID officer Sudip Dasgupta after noticing that his writ petition is similar to one being heard by a different HC bench. The HC also vacated its earlier order which gave a legal shield to this officer from any coercive […]

Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday refused to quash an FIR implicating Soumendu Adhikari, brother of opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari, for alleged misappropriation of funds while allotting 14 stalls at the Rangamati Cremation Ground in Contai.The HC, however, asked police not to take any coercive action if Soumendu Adhikari cooperates with the probe. If […]

KOLKATA: The Calcutta high court on Tuesday removed a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officer from the special investigation team probing irregularities in the recruitment of school teachers in Bengal, lawyers who were present during the hearing said. Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay observed that progress in the investigation was very slow and expressed his displeasure with […]

JAMSHEDPUR: A daily flight connecting Jamshedpur with Kolkata and Bhubaneswar was launched from this steel city on Tuesday by Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia and Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren. IndiaOne Air, an Ahmedabad-based regional airline, will start operating a nine-seater Grand Caravan Ex (C208B) single-engine aircraft on the Bhubaneswar-Jamshedpur-Kolkata-Jamshedpur-Bhubaneswar route from Wednesday, Deputy CEO of […]

KOLKATA: Many netizens from the city have been sharing the screenshots of their conversations with a chatbot on their Twitter and Facebook feeds, the discourse of which ranges from the sublime to the ridiculous. From techies to researchers and an ordinary citizen, everyone has been trying to have a tete-a-tete with ChatGPT, a free AI […]

KOLKATA: The app-based car parking system, which allows motorists to book slots virtually and pay the fees online, has finally been able to reduce fleecing complaints at the lots it has been started. This was shown in the preliminary report prepared by the Kolkata Traffic Police that also highlighted the need to ensure that enough […]

KOLKATA: Just like yellow taxis, the red and yellow minibuses of the city are in danger of being completely wiped out from the city’s public transport system. A rough estimate by the city’s minibus unions puts October 2025 as the deadline when barely 10 percent of the once 1900-strong fleet will still be in a […]