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 […]
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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 […]
A gym being sanitized in Salt Lake KOLKATA: Battered and bruised by the pandemic, several gym-owners are staring at high monthly expenses for sanitization activities when they reopen next week. Some have already revised membership fees, adding a new head — sanitization charge. “There has been zero revenue in the […]
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Aug 2 (ANI): Around 1,400 litres of purported spurious sanitizer from two shops in Kolkata have been seized and two persons have been arrested in this connection, Kolkata Police said on Saturday. Officers of Enforcement Branch (EB), Kolkata and Anti-Rowdy Squad (ARS) of Lal Bazar seized […]
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 […]
The students at a book stall on College Street KOLKATA: A group of six friends — all in their late teens — organised a social media crowdfunding to support Amphan-hit book sellers on College Street and bought books worth Rs 50,000 from multiple sellers. They will now distribute the books […]
Bhopal: The accused was identified as Dhirendra Pandey, who killed his mother by slitting her throat on Sunday. Police have arrested the accused on Tuesday and also seized his mobile phone in which they found the video of the murder. The deceased woman has been identified as 44-year-old Savitri Pandey, […]
By: Express News Service | Kolkata | Published: August 2, 2020 2:36:38 am The accused allegedly posed as employees of a private diagnostic centre and collected swab samples from Sinha last week. (Representational) Three men were arrested in Kolkata late on Friday for allegedly duping a 57-year-old bank manager last […]