The Latest Breaking News from Kolkata

KOLKATA: Kolkata Mounted Police, the country's oldest mounted police unit, seems to be discontinuing with its pre-Independence practice of recruiting sowars, civilian horse riders.

KOLKATA: Contractor ITD ITD-Cem has now started shifting Bowbazar residents displaced in the May 11 subsidence, out of their hotels. Their new addresses will be the various flats rented by ITD until the fate of their damaged homes are decided.

KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court has ordered the governing body of a Kolkata college to reconsider its decision refusing appointment to an applicant to a professor's post on the grounds that he was an amputee. The court said the decision was "regressive" and went against principles of "empowering" persons with disabilities.

KOLKATA: Birbhum’s Trinamool Congress leader Anubrata Mondal on Sunday sent an email to CBI explaining his inability to appear for interrogation on Monday. The leader had been asked to appear before the central agency in connection with the illegal cattle trade case.

KOLKATA: MP Birla group flagship Birla Corporation has witnessed a 56.2% fall in net profit in the first quarter of this fiscal. It has posted a net profit of Rs 61.9 crore from Rs 141.5 crore during the year-ago period.

KOLKATA: Arpita Mukherjee, who was lodged in ward 4 at Alipore Correctional Home following a court order, might be shifted to a different ward after she told prison authorities that she was feeling uncomfortable there and requested a transfer.

KOLKATA: The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) will hear the Peerless case between the Roy Family and Parasmal Lodha on September 21. Last week, NCLAT stayed the July 18 order of NCLT till further hearing which had inter alia directed cancellation of 30,000 shares allotted by Peerless General Finance…

KOLKATA: UCO Bank is toying with the possibility to tap an asset reconstruction company (ARC), including the government-backed bad loan aggregator National Asset Reconstruction Company, to handle its exposure in ailing Srei group entities, which are going through a resolution process under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC).

KOLKATA: Lakshmir Bhandar is now set to debut in the Red Road Independence Day parade.