US President-Elect Donald Trump has named the Kolkata-born Jay Bhattacharya, who raised questions about Covid policies, to head the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the medical research powerhouse.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee today issued a stern warning to the contractors and the officials for dereliction of duty, while doing work for laying of pipelines to distribute water to every household.
The international climate community was apprised of the forthcoming Kolkata Climate Action Plan on the sidelines of the recently-concluded UN climate conference, COP-29, at Baku, Azerbaijan.
In view of the persistent rise in the price of potatoes in the retail markets of Kolkata and adjacent areas, state minister Beccharam Manna held a meeting with the potato wholesale market dealers of Hooghly.
An event-management company staff was arrested by the police last midnight after a woman complained of rape and physical assault at a hotel in Benachity Market area here.
Those assembled at the protest site included representatives from the medical fraternity including junior doctors and medical students, members of the civil society and some representatives from the Bengali silver screen world like Swastika Mukhopadhyay, Sohini Sarkar, and Usashi Chakraborty, among others.
Members of the Trinamul Mahila Congress held meetings across the state demanding capital punishment of the persons involved in the alleged rape and murder of a doctor of RG Kar medical Colege and Hospital on 9 August.
Kolkata Police (KP) on Saturday prohibited carrying of weapons in public places in the city for six months with effect from 1 September.
Woman and child development minister Shashi Panja on Saturday demanded an answer from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the alleged murder and sexual assault of a trainee doctor at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital on 9 August in Kolkata and said “fake narratives" regarding the incident are being spread.
Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Adhir Chowdhury today claimed that the police have virtually placed the victim's family under house arrest.
