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 […]
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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 […]
The body of the lawyer who went missing from Khurja town of Bulandhshar district on July 25 was recovered from a tiles godown in the town on Friday night, the police said. Three persons, including the owner of the ceramic tiles unit, have been arrested. Dharmendra Chaudhary had gone missing […]
KOLKATA: Shooting for serials of two Bengali channels were stopped on Friday due to non-payment of a percentage of “wages” to technicians during the lockdown period and in absence of the Covid-19 health insurance for all crew members of Bengali serials. While shooting of megaserials, including ‘Rani Rashmoni’, ‘Jamuma Dhaki’, […]