KOLKATA: The city rejoiced as megastar Amitabh Bachchan was released from hospital on Sunday, 22 days after he had tested Covid positive, along with son Abhishek. On this day, exactly 38 years ago, Bachchan had emerged from a semi-comatose stage following his near-fatal accident on the sets of ‘Coolie’. The […]
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A low pressure is likely to form over north Bay of Bengal, causing heavy rain in most districts of South Bengal over the next two days, the Met department here said on Monday. The districts of East and West Midnapore, South and North 24 Parganas, Nadia, […]
By: Express News Service | Kolkata | Published: August 4, 2020 5:21:54 am While the government has termed the lockdown as biweekly – twice in a week – the latest dates suggest that there would be no lockdown in the second week of August – from August 10 to 16. […]
The COVID-19 mortalities in Bengal crossed 50 for the first time on Monday with 53 deaths being recorded in the past 24 hours taking the tally to 1,731, as per the Health department. The number of infections also touched a new high with 2,716 standing at 78,232 and the active […]
Kolkata: The news that three years of pre-school will now be a part of formal schooling, according to the new National Education Policy guidelines has left both educators and parents happy. After years of uncertainty about how kids going to pre-schools should be hand-held into the portals of education, finally […]
Several ATMs in West Bengal are running short of currency as private entities entrusted with the cash-filling task are operating with skeletal staff, sources said on Monday. Many lenders have outsourced the exercise to such entities, who are responsible for the maintenance and operation of ATMs […]
Image used for representational purpose only TURA: A 13-year-old girl in Meghalaya died after falling into a river while trying to help her friend who was slipping into a waterfall, police said on Monday. The incident took place at 2.30pm on Sunday when the girl along with three of her […]
BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on Monday dismissed speculation that some party MPs from West Bengal may join the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) before next year’s Assembly polls in that state. All BJP MPs from West Bengal are with the party, he asserted. […]
BHUBANESWAR/ BERHAMPUR: Berhampur Municipal Corporation (BeMC) with the help of ICMR-Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC), Bhubaneswar has started a five-day long serological survey in the silk city from Monday to figure out the extent of the spread of the novel coronavirus. BeMC commissioner Chakravarti Singh Rathore said at least five […]
Malda (West Bengal) [India], Aug 3 (ANI): Border Security Force (BSF) troops apprehended one person and seized 250 bottles of Phensedyl from his possession in Kistopur area of Malda district of West Bengal on Sunday. The 44th Battalion Border Security Force, deployed at the border outpost at Kistopur, on the […]