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Kolkata mayor and state’s urban development minister Firhad Hakim backs biomining to get rid of garbage heaps

KOLKATA: The city and the rest of Bengal are all set to do away with the mountains of legacy waste in next two years with aggressive biomining and segregation of wastes at source, city’s mayor and state’s urban development minister Firhad Hakim said at an environmental workshop.

The Times of India

Kolkata colleges set up helplines, mails to respond to admission queries

KOLKATA: Several Kolkata colleges have started helplines to address admission-related queries of students applying to under-graduate courses. Some have also created special mail ids where students can mail their admission-related questions.

The Times of India

Kolkata: Four gold bars found under flight seat

KOLKATA: Four gold bars weighing above 400 gms and worth Rs 20.8 lakhs — wrapped in black adhesive tapes — were found hidden under a seat of an IndiGo flight that reached Kolkata from Bangkok on Saturday. Customs officials said the gold bars were taped under seat 29F of IndiGo…

The Times of India

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ED arrests Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee in job scam

Mr. Chatterjee sent to two-day custody; two aides held

The Hindu

WB: CISF personnel shoots himself dead at Kolkata airport

The body of Pankaj Kumar, a sub-inspector, was found lying in a pool of blood around 7.45 pm on Friday at the basement toilet meant for airport staff. Full story on Dynamite News:

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Kolkata Police's number of active Covid cases falls to 25

KOLKATA: The number of cases in Kolkata Police in the latest wave stands at 47, up from 31 reported about 10 days ago. But there are just 25 active cases. Lalbazar Welfare Cell, which has been monitoring cases within the force for the past two years, said there has been…

The Times of India

Airlines scrap boarding-pass fee

KOLKATA: All airlines have stopped charging an additional fee of Rs 200 to issue boarding passes to passengers who reach the airport without web check-in following a notification from the civil aviation ministry. On an average, around 10% of departing passengers — or 2,500-3,000 flyers — do not do prior…

The Times of India

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Firing inside Kolkata airport washroom, CISF sub inspector found dead

KOLKATA: A middle aged CISF sub inspector presumably killed himself with his service gun inside a Kolkata airport washroom on Friday evening.

The Times of India

West Bengal: ED attaches properties worth Rs 13.63 crore in illegal coal mining

KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate has on Friday attached two properties of Vinay Mishra and Vikas Mishra at Gopinathpur, Purba Bardhaman in connection to illegal coal mining probe.

The Times of India

West Bengal: NKDA starts waste water recycling scheme in New Town

KOLKATA: The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has kicked off a pilot scheme to treat and recycle waste water for watering plants in parks, gardens, road dividers, and medians in New Town.

The Times of India

20 teams, including ISL sides to play in this year's Durand Cup

GUWAHATI: Twenty teams from across the country, including 11 Indian Super League sides, will vie for top honours this year in Asia's oldest football tournament, the Durand Cup which begins at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata on August 16.

The Times of India

The Big City review – Satyajit Ray’s miraculous look at a new world of possibility

The struggles and triumphs of a 1950s Kolkata family whose highest earner is a woman is told with marvellous lucidity in an optimistic masterpiece

The Guardian - UK

Durand Cup to kick off with ATKMB-EB derby on August 16

KOLKATA: The 131st edition of Durand Cup - the oldest football tournament in Asia - will kick off with the Kolkata derby between ATK Mohun Bagan and East Bengal at the Salt Lake Stadium on August 16.

The Times of India

As rupee sinks & inflation soars in US, desi students abroad left counting their dollars

KOLKATA: Most parents with children studying in the US or headed west for the fall semester are under a lot of financial stress as the cost of living and studying in America keeps shooting up due to rising US inflation and sinking Indian rupee.

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Kolkata: IIT-Madras to study tunnel-boring machine effect on Victoria

KOLKATA: IIT-Madras will study the effect of tunnelling on the Victoria Memorial Hall (VMH) and its grounds once tunnel-boring machines (TBMs) start burrowing below the Maidan.

The Times of India

Mobile-use curb for all on-duty Kolkata cops

KOLKATA: Barely two weeks after junior cops on duty at Nabanna and chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s Kalighat residence were barred from using mobile phones following a security breach, Kolkata Police commissioner Vineet Goyal passed an order asking all officers on duty — especially those on road, picket or sentry duty…

The Times of India

NGT order to West Bengal govt on noise pollution

KOLKATA: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday asked the state to explore various aspects of noise pollution in the city and other parts of the state, which have been raised by green crusader Subhas Datta, the applicant in a noise pollution case.

The Times of India

Kolkata: June property sales clock 114% YoY growth, dip 21% from May's

KOLKATA: Some 3,044 residential sales documents were registered in Greater Kolkata in June 2022, a 114% increase over 1,422 registrations in June 2021 when the city was reeling under the grip of the second Covid wave. But the count was down 21% against May 2022 when 4,233 sales documents were…

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Father Joseph Alexander passes away

KOLKATA: Father Joseph Alexander, SJ, passed away on July 18 at the age of 73. The funeral mass will be conducted at the St Xavier’s College chapel on Thursday (July 21) at 10am, followed by burial at Dhyan Ashram.

The Hindu

Calcutta HC questions West Bengal BJP’s July 21 rally plans

Supporters have begun arriving for the TMC’s massive annual Martyrs’ Day rally in Kolkata on July 21

The Times of India

ATK Mohun Bagan sign Australian striker Dimitrios Petratos

KOLKATA: Indian Super League (ISL) franchise ATK Mohun Bagan on Monday announced the signing of Australian striker Dimitrios Petratos.

The Times of India

It wasn't easy to convince Florentin Pogba: ATKMB coach

KOLKATA: ATK Mohun Bagan head coach Juan Ferrando on Saturday said it was not easy to convince high-profile Guinean central defender Florentin Pogba, who is the elder brother of French World Cup winner Paul Pogba.

The Times of India

BJP women's wing protests at Kolkata police station demanding TMC MP Mahua Moitra's arrest

KOLKATA: The women's wing of the West Bengal BJP held a sit-in in front of the Bowbazar police station in Kolkata on Saturday, demanding TMC MP Mahua Moitra's arrest for her alleged derogatory comments on Goddess Kali.

The Hindu

Several West Bengal districts report cases of black fever

No black fever case has yet been detected in Kolkata

The Times of India

West Bengal Pollution Control Board collects Rs 8 lakh fine from traders, shoppers for use of banned plastic

KOLKATA: After imposing fines on a section of traders and shoppers for using banned plastic bags in several district towns across the state, the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) has turned the lens on Kolkata markets.

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