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 […]
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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 […]
JIS Institute of Advanced Studies and Research, Kolkata has started admissions for its M.Tech programmes and invited applications. Interested candidates can now apply in online mode for admission to the M.Tech programmes offered by JIS Institute of Advanced Studies and Research, Kolkata. Candidates are advised to check the eligibility criteria […]
এই সময় ডিজিটাল ডেস্ক: প্রাক্তন রিপাবলিকান প্রেসিডেন্ট পদপ্রার্থী, একটি নামী পিজ্জা চেইনের প্রাক্তন সিইও হারমান কেইন মারা গেলেন করোনায়। বয়স হয়েছিল ৭৪ বছর। মার্কিন প্রেসিডেন্ট ডোনাল্ড ট্রাম্পের তিনি ছিলেন প্রবল সমর্থক। মার্কিন মিডিয়া সূত্রে খবর, দু-সপ্তাহও হয়নি হারমান কেইনের কোভিড ধরা পড়েছিল। কেইন সম্প্রতি ওকলাহোমার তুলসায় ডোনাল্ড ট্রাম্পের একটি নির্বাচনী […]
KOLKATA: Hilsa, Bengal’s favourite fish, has been eluding the Bengali platter this season. What’s worse is that prices of basic ingredients for even a plain hilsa curry have shot up, with packaged mustard oil going for around Rs 130-Rs 140 a litre and green chilli breaching the Rs 250/kg barrier. […]
Kolkata: The body of a 63-year-old Covid patient was left at his residence for eight hours before the KMC, police and health department arrived. The incident was reported from Matheswartala Road under the Pragati Maidan police station. The elderly man was in home quarantine after being detected with Covid. He […]
এই সময় ডিজিটাল ডেস্ক: এ পর্যন্ত অসম পুলিশের মোট ১,৪২৬ কর্মী কোভিড-১৯ সংক্রমণের শিকার। বৃহস্পতিবার ট্যুইট করে এই রিপোর্ট দিয়েছেন অসম পুলিশের অতিরিক্ত ডিরেক্টর জেনারেল (আইনশৃঙ্খলা) জিপি সিং। কোভিডের আপডেট রিপোর্ট দিতে গিয়ে অসম পুলিশের এই শীর্ষকর্তা জানান, আক্রান্তদের মধ্যে যদিও ১,০৪৮ জন সুস্থ হয়ে উঠেছেন। তবে, কোভিডে মৃত্যু হয়েছে […]
West Bengal on Thursday recorded yet again the highest single-day spike in the number of COVID-19 mortalities with 46 persons succumbing to the infection in the past 24 hours. The number of deaths due to the COVID-19 increased to 1,536. The number of cases recorded in the past 24 hours […]
KOLKATA: At least 25 healthcare workers, including the nursing students attached with ID Hospital, Beliaghata, have tested positive for Covid-19. The hospital officials said majority of them are asymptomatic and they are on home isolation. A few of them got admitted to the hospital and their conditions were stated to […]