Kolkata, March 8 (IANS) The Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) in Kolkata’s Alipore has forecast the possibility of thunderstorms and rain in the entire state, including Kolkata, from Sunday evening. The MeT Office said that despite the thunderstorms, the temperature will not change much in the next seven days.According to the forecast, Kolkata, Howrah, Hooghly, and North 24 Parganas are likely to experience scattered light rain and gusty winds on Monday and Tuesday. However, no separate warni…
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Kolkata, March 2 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has given details of the advance deployment of the 480 companies of the Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) in two phases in West Bengal before the announcement of the polling dates for the Assembly election.Of these 480 companies, 240 companies have already been deployed on March 1, and the remaining 240 companies will be deployed on March 10.The maximum deployment will be in the North 24 Parganas district at 58, followed by 35 in Mur…
Kolkata, Feb 26 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday announced the details of the 240 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) personnel that will be deployed in the first phase on March 1, amid the preparations for the Assembly polls in West Bengal.Incidentally, this is the first time that the ECI has decided to deploy CAPF in the state so early, and that too before the announcement of the polling dates and enforcement of the model code of conduct.While 240 companies…
Kolkata, Feb 26 (IANS) Passport offices in Kolkata received bomb threat on Thursday, after a similar scare at several courts across West Bengal for last two days.On Thursday, a bomb threat was sent to the passport offices of Brabourne Road and Anandpur area through emails. It was claimed that a bomb was kept in the office. After that, both offices were evacuated with employees rushing out in panic.Soon Police and bomb squad members were informed. They went to the spot immediately after receiving…
Kolkata, Feb 18 (IANS) The BJP on Wednesday accused the Trinamool Congress of intimidating its party leader and threatening to kill him in Nanoor of West Bengal’s Birbhum district, ahead of the Assembly polls in the state. According to local sources, the BJP leader was identified as Ramakrishna Mandal, a resident of Kurgram in the Thupasara area of Nanoor in Birbhum.The BJP claimed that white ‘dhoti’, incense sticks, garlands and sweets were left in front of the party leader’s house in an …
Kolkata, Jan 19 (IANS) Three persons have died in three separate districts of North 24 Parganas, Nadia and Birbhum over fear of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) hearing process. Police sources said on Monday that while two died by suicide, one died of a heart attack. Their families alleged that fear over the SIR process was the cause of their deaths.At Hingalganj in North 24 Parganas district, a father died of a heart attack after his son and daughter received SIR hearing notices for ‘logica…
New Delhi, Jan 16 (IANS) The World Bank on Friday approved a loan of $286 million for a new programme to enhance access to healthcare for over 90 million people in West Bengal.The West Bengal Health System Reform Programme Operation will support delivery of personalised healthcare services across the state for people over 30 years through digital tracking measures for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as hypertension and diabetes.It will also bring a patient-centric care approach to the stat…
Kolkata, Jan 12 (IANS) Even as Kolkata and other south Bengal districts recorded an almost four degrees Celsius rise in minimum temperature on Sunday, the cold spell made a surprise comeback on Monday as temperatures dropped again.In Kolkata, the minimum temperature had risen significantly on Sunday, reaching 15 degrees Celsius. On Monday morning, however, the minimum temperature in the city dipped to 12.4 degrees Celsius, 1.4 degrees below normal.Meanwhile, Kolkata’s maximum temperature on Su…
Kolkata, Jan 10 (IANS) The ongoing cold spell in West Bengal intensified on Saturday as temperatures dropped further in Kolkata and several districts, and the chill is expected to continue for the next few days.According to the Regional Meteorological Centre in Kolkata’s Alipore, the temperature dropped as cold northerly winds are freely entering the state, resulting in biting cold. There is also a significant presence of fog at several places.The minimum temperature in the city rose slightly to…
Kolkata, Jan 8 (IANS) Acting on a call given by party supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, leaders and workers of the Trinamool Congress on Thursday evening held protest rallies across the state to condemn the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids at the Kolkata office of political consultancy firm I-PAC and the residence of its director and co-founder, Pratik Jain.Banerjee announced the protest programme after visiting the I-PAC office at Salt Lake in Kolkata earlier in the day….