Updated Jul 29, 2020 | 11:30 IST Faizan Ahmed, a resident of the Park Circus area, was diagnosed with dengue a few days back and was admitted to the Institute of Child Health on Monday 12-year-old boy dies of dengue in Kolkata  |  Photo Credit: PTI A 12-year-old boy died of […]
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By: Express News Service | Kolkata | Published: July 31, 2020 11:31:23 am Pro-BJP Bimal Gurung faction of GJM refused to participate in the meeting since the agenda is not of “permanent solution” to the problems faced in the Darjeeling hills. (Express file) Pro-BJP faction of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) […]
KOLKATA: Last week, a private hospital off the EM Bypass allegedly asked the family of a 67-year-old Covid suspect to deposit Rs 4 lakh within two hours of admission. The patient’s son told TOI that he was forced to leave the hospital to arrange for the sum. When he returned, […]
Kolkata: BJP’s significant breakthrough in Bengal during the 2019 Lok Sabha polls didn’t facilitate better representation from the state in the Union Cabinet. With no central minister, it had to remain satisfied with two ministers of state, Babul Supriyo and Debasree Chaudhuri. With a Cabinet expansion on the cards, expectations […]
आज की बड़ी खबरें। NATIONAL: राजनीति के साथ देश की हर एक बात यह खबर भी पढ़े: कोरोना: देश में संक्रमितों का आंकड़ा 16 लाख के पार, 35786 की मौत यह खबर भी पढ़े: सियासी संकट के बीच मुख्यमंत्री गहलोत का बड़ा बयान, कहा- सभी विधायक होटल में ही मनाएंगे […]
Representative image KOLKATA: The Bengal government has extended till August 15 the embargo on direct flights to Kolkata from six Indian cities. The ban on flights from Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Pune, Nagpur and Ahmedabad came into force on July 6 and was initially in place till July 19 before being […]
KOLKATA: The detailed report on ‘Tigers, Co-predators and Prey in India’, released in New Delhi on Tuesday, reveals that wild pig and spotted deer — the main prey species of tigers in the Indian Sunderbans — are widely distributed in the landscape, with both of them turning out to be […]
Somen Mitra KOLKATA: West Bengal Pradesh Congress president Somen Mitra, popularly called “Chhorda”, died at a private city hospital late on Wednesday. He was 78. Mitra had been suffering from heart ailments for quite a few years and was hospitalised two weeks ago with kidney-related complications. Mitra rose from the […]
KOLKATA: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan’s social network post on Covid-induced loneliness has found resonance among scores of Kolkata patients who are now at various stages of recovery or have just tested negative, but remain quarantined. Cut off from families and acquaintances, often facing ostracization from neighbours, they fight a lonely battle […]
Photo for representative purpose only KOLKATA: Kusthia Masjidbari Lane, Picnic Garden, CN Roy Road, Mayfair Road (Ballygunge), Ironside Road — which are dengue-prone zones — have been reporting two to three Covid-positive cases daily. On Tuesday, a 12-year-old boy died of dengue at the Institute of Child Health at Park […]