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SSC probe report: West Bengal panel, its appointments illegal

KOLKATA: A committee appointed by the Calcutta High Court to probe irregularities in school recruitment has found the five-member panel set up by the education department to oversee the appointments “not valid under the law” and has blamed the panel members for the illegal appointments in Group D posts.

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Calcutta HC sets aside speaker’s ruling on Mukul plea

KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court on Monday set aside Bengal assembly speaker Biman Banerjee’s ruling that Krishnanagar Uttar representative and Public Accounts Committee chairman Mukul Roy was a BJP MLA. The court set a four-week time frame for the speaker to decide on Mukul’s disqualification as member/chairman of PAC.

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Illegal online gambling | Enforcement Directorate arrests two residents of Kolkata

Illegal gaming activities and siphoning of huge sums of money via clandestine networks alleged

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Kolkata: Devotees celebrate Ram Navami with Jeen Mataji's puja at Behala Chandi temple

KOLKATA: Ram Navami was celebrated across the country on Sunday and in some places, rallies were also held. In Kolkata's Behala Chandi temple, the festival was celebrated with huge fervour along with the puja of Jeen Mataji.

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Delhi Capitals bounces back with a dominant performance

Kuldeep, Khaleel derail Knight Riders’ chase after half-centuries from Shaw, Warner power the side to season’s highest total; Shreyas lone warrior for Kolkata

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IPL 2022: We were a bit clueless, says KKR skipper Shreyas Iyer

KOLKATA: Chasing down a target like 215 was always going to be tough and Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Shreyas Iyer accepted that Delhi Capitals set the tone with their brilliant opening stand of 93 runs.

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IPL 2022: Ajinkya Rahane gets three-time lucky against Delhi Capitals

KOLKATA: It was a hat-trick of error on the part of on-field umpire Jayaraman Madanagopal during the Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Capitals' IPL match at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday.

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I-League: Rajasthan United hold Real Kashmir with late fightback

KOLKATA: Rajasthan United FC secured a thrilling 2-2 draw against Real Kashmir FC, while Churchill Brothers bounced back from behind to hand Kenkre FC their eighth loss of the season in the I-League on Sunday.

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Bengaluru joins global network of silk cities

Hope for Murshidabad to join the elite club, says French textile artist

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West Bengal yet to receive Rs 2,786 crore MGNREGA dues from Centre: TMC

KOLKATA: Wondering whether the Centre spends more time "sleeping or spewing venom", Trinamool Congress on Sunday claimed that West Bengal was yet to receive MGNREGA dues amounting to Rs 2,786 crore from the BJP-led Union government.

The Times of India

IPL 2022, KKR vs DC: Time for Kuldeep Yadav to settle score against KKR

KOLKATA: Changing the colour of the jersey is nothing new in franchise cricket, but some separations often carry a scar with them. Indication of some bitterness surfaced when the Kolkata Knight Riders released Kuldeep Yadav ahead of IPL auction 2022.

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Jadavpur University ranks 5th in India on global list

KOLKATA: Jadavpur University has ranked fifth in the arts and humanities stream — among the best Indian institutions (within a range of top 500 institutions worldwide) — in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022. Jadavpur University and IIT Delhi are ranked within the range of 401-450 worldwide along…

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Travelling film fest to reach NUJS campus tomorrow

KOLKATA: Prasanna Vithanage’s ‘With You, Without You’ from Sri Lanka and Saim Sadiq’s ‘Darling’ from Pakistan are among the 19 short films, documentaries and features on gender that are part of a film festival titled SamaBhav (Equanimity) that will be held at NUJS from April 10.

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Price rise: EB raids on Kolkata markets

KOLKATA: The Enforcement Branch raided several markets of Kolkata — including in Hatibagan, Maniktala and Gariahat — on Friday to ascertain whether perishables and other food items were being sold at higher rates.

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Golf Green tea-stall owner’s green effort sets an example

KOLKATA: Those who often find excuses to chop trees that create some sort of trouble for them should take a lesson from this small-time trader in the Golf Green area. Raju Shome, the tea stall owner, has been keeping a strict vigil over the well-being of two trees he had…

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300km in 15 days: Target to clean up cable clutter in Kolkata

KOLKATA: Cable operators and internet service providers have kicked off the biggest drive till date to remove the overhead cable clutter across 250km-300km of city roads. In the first phase, the mesh of cables was dressed and redundant cables were removed from 75km-80km of roads while in the second phase,…

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Kolkata: Free parking zone assigned but VIP cars still clog airport gates

KOLKATA: With the rise in the number of flights and passengers at the airport owing to the resumption of international operations and the introduction of summer schedule, violations involving VIP vehicles — an old problem at the airport — is back again. The authorities have designated a free parking zone…

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Kolkata: Student dies in bike crash on out-of-bounds flyover

KOLKATA: A 21-year-old pillion rider — a final-year student of a private engineering college at Anandapur — died and the biker, his classmate, was injured when their two-wheeler hit the guard wall of the AJC Bose Road Flyover-Maa Flyover connector in the wee hours of Friday. The accident happened on…

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Man beaten to death for ‘theft’, three arrested in Kolkata

KOLKATA: A 32-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death by three men who dumped his body near a local canal before fleeing the spot.

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Kolkata: 542 daily traffic violations, 27 fatal accidents in 2 months

KOLKATA: The fatal accident on the Maa flyover-AJC Bose Road flyover connector in the wee hours of Friday resulted from the violation of multiple traffic rules by the two students of a private engineering college at Anandapur. However, bikers and motorists are refusing to learn a lesson.

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6 crore in 18-59 group eligible for booster jabs in West Bengal from Sunday

KOLKATA: Around 6 crore individuals in the age group of 18-59 years in Bengal will be eligible for the precautionary third dose which is expected to be rolled out from Sunday. Only those who received their second dose nine months ago will receive the dose now. But those going for…

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Kolkata: Chaos at Salt Lake school as kids ‘go missing’, ‘bus children’ get stranded

KOLKATA: Anxiety, confusion, chaos and harassment reigned the first day of post-pandemic reopening of Salt Lake Shiksha Niketan on Friday. It all apparently started with at least two students allegedly going missing only to be found a couple of hours later but while the search was on, none of the…

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Kolkata: Kids, parents on edge, hope for an early end to impasse

KOLKATA: Parents and children studying at GD Birla Centre for Education, Ashok Hall Girls’ Higher Secondary School and Mahadevi Birla Shishu Vihar remained on tenterhooks on Friday even as the schools stayed shut for the second day in a row. Sources in the school management, however, said they were hopeful…

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No vicarious liability on state for judicial actions: Calcutta high court

KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court on Monday dismissed a Rs 100-crore compensation claim against the Bengal government for vicarious liability, holding it responsible in a case of alleged defamation against a high court judge. “There is no master-servant relationship between the State and a High Court Judge, and accordingly, there is…

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Calcutta HC hands over probe into Bogtui neta murder to CBI

KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court handed over the Bogtui upapradhan murder investigation to CBI more than a fortnight after Bhadu Sheikh was killed by motorbike-borne miscreants on March 23.

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