KOLKATA: Nine more hotels are set to be converted into satellite facilities for hospitals, adding 293 rooms to the current capacity of 233 rooms across eight hotels that have already entered into tieups with hospitals and are acting as Covid-care facilities. “The hotels that are functioning as satellite centres for […]
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এই সময়: পরিত্যক্ত পিপিই কিট ও করোনা-বর্জ্য নিয়ে ফের সাধারণ মানুষের বিক্ষোভ। যা থামাতে শনিবার যেতে হল পুলিশকে। ক্যানাল সার্কুলার রোডের পর এ বার বেহালা চৌরাস্তায়। এলাকার মানুষের অভিযোগ, কিছু দিন ধরেই স্থানীয় একটি নার্সিংহোম থেকে ব্যবহৃত পিপিই কিট, গ্লাভ্স, মাস্ক ও কোভিড-বর্জ্য রাস্তায় ফেলা হচ্ছে। বার বার বলা সত্ত্বেও […]
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], July 31 (ANI): A total of 2,496 new COVID-19 cases were reported in West Bengal on Friday taking the state’s count of coronavirus cases to 70,188. State Health Department said 2,496 new COVID-19 cases and 45 deaths reported in West Bengal today. The state has 20,233 […]
By: Express News Service | Kolkata | Updated: August 2, 2020 6:40:52 am Sources at the private hospital where Somen Mitra was admitted to said he died due to heart and age-related ailments. (Express Archive) Following Somen Mitra’s death on Thursday, veteran leaders Pradip Bhattacharya, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, and Abdul […]
Floods claimed two more lives in Bihar on Saturday taking the death toll to 13, while the number of people affected by the calamity inched closer to 50 lakh as the waters of overflowing rivers reached fresh areas of the State’s northern part. According to the bulletin issued by the […]
এই সময় ডিজিটাল ডেস্ক: রাজ্যে পর্যাপ্ত সংখ্যক পিপিই (personal protective equipment) কিটের ঘাটতি থাকার কারণে কেরালায় ১৪ শতাংশ স্বাস্থ্যকর্মী কোভিড সংক্রমণের শিকার হয়েছেন। ফ্রন্টলাইনে থাকা স্বাস্থ্যকর্মীদের মধ্যে অনেকেই করোনাভাইরাসে আক্রান্ত হওয়ায়, একটি সমীক্ষা চালায় রাজ্য়ের স্বাস্থ্য ও পরিবার কল্যাণ দফতর। সেই সমীক্ষাতে সামনে এসেছে পিপিই কিটের ঘাটতির কারণে স্বাস্থ্যকর্মীরা তা […]
A durwan at Presidency College gave up his life defending the college during the April riots of 1926. The students, staff and public installed a plaque in his memory. A group of students grieved by the passing of a classmate in September 1924 decided to install a plaque in his […]
A ‘home way from home’ for generations, Buffalo State College students may get a new name amid concerns the existing one ‘memorializes’ a connection to slavery. BUFFALO, N.Y. — A building that has served as a home away from home for generations of students at Buffalo State College now has […]
Written by Atri Mitra | Kolkata | Updated: August 2, 2020 6:40:55 am Health workers in PPE suits collect swab samples of police officers for Covid-19 test, at a police station in Kolkata. (Express photo by Partha Paul) While July marked West Bengal’s worst month during the Covid-19 pandemic, senior […]
Odisha, which was bracketed along with Kerala for tasting initial success in containing the COVID-19 pandemic due to some proactive steps, seems have lost the momentum with total positive cases swelling by more than four times in the month of July. At the beginning of July, Odisha’s total count was […]