At just 4 years, Anish Sarkar from Kolkata has made history by becoming the youngest chess player to earn an Elo Rating from the International Chess Federation (FIDE).
The executive committee meeting of the Eastern Railway Promotee Officers Association (ERPOA) was held at Fairlie Place in Kolkata today.
Lake Kalibari in south Kolkata will be celebrating Annapurna Puja tomorrow.
Protests were held in Kolkata, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Delhi and other cities against the Waqf Amendment Bill on Friday.
The Kolkata Metro Railway is also to introduce some new passenger-friendly features in the Metro Ride Kolkata App tomorrow.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a money laundering case to probe alleged financial irregularities at the state-run R G Kar Medical College Hospital during the regime of its former principal Prof (Dr) Sandip Ghosh and several others
Incessant rainfall caused by sustained depression over the Damodar East sub-basin in the last couple of days resulted the Durgapur barrage to open 16 of its 34 lock-gates resulting a discharge of 60210 cusecs at 6 pm today, posing a minor inundation threat to the lower valley basin.
Spate of rallies and the face-off between the police and the protesting students brought the city to a standstill on a busy weekday.
West Bengal ADG police (law & order) Manoj Kumar Verma called the Nabanna Abhijan rally scheduled for tomorrow to reach Nabanna illegal and an attempt to incite widespread unrest in Kolkata.
Sources from the state police said that while the direction of the single-judge Bench of Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj to the SIT was to complete the process of document handover by 10 am on Saturday.
