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  • West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee thanks CAB for inviting her for IPL play-offs at Eden Gardens

    West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday thanked the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) for inviting her to attend the IPL play-offs at Eden Gardens on Tuesday and Wednesday.

    In a letter she stated, “Thank you so much for inviting me at the IPL play-off matches at Eden Gardens on 24th and 25th of May, 2022.”

    “It is a matter of great joy that Kolkata will once again play host to the IPL and cricket enthusiasts of Bengal, after a long wait, will get the opportunity to witness the flavour and excitement of one the best T20 tournaments in the world. My heartiest congratulations to CAB and its stakeholders for making all this possible,” she added.

    The CM additionally conveyed her heartfelt greetings to the gamers in addition to help workers of the taking part group and wished them a contented and fulfilling keep in Kolkata.

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    With the IPL shifting to Kolkata for the playoffs and inclement climate forecast for town, the IPL has issued sure pointers in case of rain-interrupted video games.

    While Gujarat Titans tackle Rajasthan Royals in Qualifier 1 on Tuesday, Lucknow Super Giants will play Royal Challengers Bangalore on the identical venue the following day within the Eliminator.

    “The number of overs in the playoff match may, if necessary, be reduced so that each side has the opportunity to bat for five overs,” the IPL pointers learn.

  • How a lot a home prices in Kolkata

    A home might be the most important spend for many Indians. And with city inhabitants rising manifold, shopping for a home in a big metropolis, which is the place most jobs are more likely to be, has turn into tough—the primary impediment price. Determining a property’s worth is tough. Our compilation of property costs of outstanding localities in main cities and surrounding areas throughout India might enable you to examine and make an knowledgeable resolution. Here are costs of some properties in value bands of beneath Rs50 lakh, Rs50-75 lakh, and above Rs75 lakh.

     

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  • BJP activists exhibit earlier than Raj Bhavan demanding President Rule in Bengal

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    KOLKATA: A bunch of BJP staff on Tuesday demonstrated earlier than Raj Bhavan right here to demand the imposition of President’s Rule within the state citing the “collapse of law and order” within the state.

    About 20 demonstrators, led by BJP chief and councillor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation Sajal Ghosh, raised slogans ‘ei Trinamool aar noy’ (not this TMC-run authorities anymore), obilombe Rastrapatir Sashon jari korte hobey'(demand fast imposition of President’s Rule), and in addition tried to squat on the highway in entrance of the Main Gate of the Raj Bhavan earlier than they have been faraway from the spot.

    The activists staged the agitation in entrance of the Raj Bhavan regardless of the issuance of Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code within the high-security space.

    “From Anis Khan murder to the incident at Bogtui where nine people were burnt to death, gang rape and death of a 14-year- old girl in Hanskhali to the attack on Ram Navami processionists in Howrah, this government under Mamata Banerjee has miserably failed to prevent such incidents,” Ghosh claimed.

    Demanding Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar’s intervention, Ghosh stated “Article 365 should be immediately promulgated in West Bengal to put an end to this lawlessness”.

    Under Article 365 of the Constitution, if a state authorities is unable to perform based on Constitutional provisions, the Centre can take direct management of the State equipment.

    A police officer stated round 20 BJP activists have been taken to Lalbazar, Kolkata Police headquarters, for violating prohibitory orders. They have been, nonetheless, launched on private bond.

    Trinamool Congress state spokesperson Kunal Ghosh stated “the BJP is yet to accept its humiliating defeat in the last assembly polls and is now conspiring against a democratically elected government.” However, the sport plan of the saffron social gathering won’t succeed, he added.

  • Birbhum killings: 4 arrested from Mumbai dropped at Kolkata

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    KOLKATA: The 4 folks arrested from Mumbai in reference to the Birbhum killings have been introduced again to Kolkata on Friday morning by the CBI, an official stated.

    They have been introduced again to Kolkata on transit remand, granted by a Mumbai court docket until April 10, he stated. “We will be taking them to Rampurhat later in the day to speed up the investigation. They will be grilled along with other accused arrested there,” the official stated.

    The CBI on Thursday arrested the 4 individuals — Bappa, Shabu, Taj Mohammad and Serajul — from Mumbai the place they fled to following the bloodbath in Rampurhat’s Bogtui village on March 21.

    These have been the primary arrests made by the central company after taking up the probe. Nine folks died of burn accidents after their homes in Bogtui have been allegedly firebombed following the homicide of native TMC chief Bhadu Sheikh.

    The CBI took over the investigation of the case, following an order of the Calcutta High Court. The company at current has the custody of no less than 10 individuals who have been arrested by the police in reference to the killings. Among them is then TMC block president Anarul Hossain.

  • IFB Agro board approves contributions value as much as Rs 40 crore to political events

    Kolkata-based distillery and bottling firm IFB Agro Industries Ltd’s board of administrators has permitted “contributions to political parties by way of subscription to the electoral bonds in one or more tranches aggregating not more than Rs 40 crore for the financial year 2022-23”, the corporate knowledgeable the inventory exchanges.

    In the submitting signed by IFB Agro’s Chief Financial Officer Rahul Choudhary, the corporate mentioned it was writing in continuation to its earlier letters to the inventory exchanges “wherein we have intimated about excise related issues being faced by/affecting the company”.

    The firm had additionally made an alternate submitting on October 7 that was equally worded however pertained to subscription of electoral bonds “aggregating not more than Rs 25 crore for the financial year 2021-22”. It had even cited the excise associated points again then.

    For the quarter-ending December 2021, IFB Agro had reported a income of Rs 632 crore, and a internet revenue of Rs 8.59 crore.

    In a submitting on June 26, 2020, the corporate had knowledgeable the exchanges that its distillery in Noorpur, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal was attacked a day earlier “by a group of more than 150 armed goons. These unidentified hooligans, armed with various types of weapons, forcibly entered the factory, beat up the security guards and practically held our employees/workers on duty as hostage. They also damaged the CCTV cameras, computers, medical room etc. inside the factory”.

    “We have sought help from the Chief Minister of West Bengal and also from Finance, Commerce and Industry Minister of the State of West Bengal. We are awaiting better environment before the plant can be re-opened,” it had added.

    However, later that 12 months, in December 2020, the corporate made one other submitting the place it mentioned that the unit, which was closed on account of the assault, was opened on July 2, 2020 after police safety was offered by native authorities, however, “till date no offenders have been brought to book”.

    It added: “Further, the alcohol business of the company has been suffering and is under threat, as we have been singled out by certain excise officials for not succumbing to their illegal demands… (We) have requested the Hon’ble Chief Minister of West Bengal and also from Hon’ble Finance, Commerce and Industry Minister of the State of West Bengal to look into/investigate the same. This is for your information and record”.

  • Kolkata Diary: All that’s happenign within the ‘City of Joy’

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    More IIT-Kharagpur college students need on-line examination, finds survey

    Close to 98 per cent college students of IIT Kharagpur, most of whom are current on the campus, have now expressed need to put in writing the end-semester exams on-line, mentioned an official. Last week after the institute gave the scholars, apart from these in undergraduate first 12 months, choice to decide on how they wish to write the end-semester exams following protests over forcing college students to put in writing the exams on-line.

    A complete of seven,899 out of 8,069 mentioned they’d write the exams on-line. The IIT determined to offer the choice after  after an open-house session between institute director V Ok Tewari and eight,000 odd college students on March 21, over the protests which the IIT witnessed.

    Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, BRO ink deal for strategic bridges

    To additional its strides in facilitating highway improvement in tough terrains in India, Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd, (GRSE) has signed an MoU with the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) for the fabrication, provide, erection and launching of first-of-its-kind,  double-lane Class 70 modular metal bridges in border areas.

    The two 12 months contract price Rs 65 crore was inked by the Director General of the BRO, Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhary and Cmde PR Hari, IN (Retd.), officiating chairman & managing director, of the Miniratna Category 1 Defence PSU.

    These bridges have been designed in-house by GRSE & all parts have been manufactured with 100 per cent indigenous uncooked supplies, according to India’s Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan.

    254 most cancers beds inaugurated at Tata Medical Center

    Kolkata acquired 254 new most cancers beds on the Tata Medical Center in Rajarhat on Saturday. The beds, a proportion of which is reserved for underprivileged sufferers, are within the Tata Medical Center Phase-II. Indian Oil Corporation can also be part of the second section improvement of the hospital.

    Tens of 1000’s of most cancers sufferers from Bengal go to different states for remedy as a result of Kolkata doesn’t have sufficient most cancers beds and services. Data by the ICMR-National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research recommend that in 2020 alone 1.08 lakh new most cancers circumstances had been reported in Bengal.

    Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation​ to survey for unlawful billboards

    Officials will establish unlawful billboards in a survey to be carried out throughout Salt Lake, locations off the VIP Road and components of Rajarhat to, mentioned sources on the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation. The not too long ago handed price range of the civic physique has set a goal to mop up round Rs 65 lakh in income from outside commercials.

    “These are high visibility areas but our revenue from the billboards from these places has been low. We want to change this,” mentioned an official of the civic physique. Once the survey is over, notices might be despatched to billboard house owners who haven’t been paying tax.

  • PM to inaugurate Kolkata gallery on contribution of revolutionaries in India’s freedom wrestle 

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Biplobi Bharat Gallery, which shows the contribution of the revolutionaries within the freedom wrestle, in Kolkata by way of video conferencing on Wednesday.

    The goal of this new gallery is to offer a holistic view of the occasions that led as much as India’s independence in 1947 and spotlight the necessary function performed by the revolutionaries, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) stated in a press release on Tuesday.

    On the event of Shaheed Diwas, Prime Minister Modi will inaugurate Biplobi Bharat Gallery at Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata, on March 23 at 6 PM by way of video conferencing.

    Shaheed Diwas is noticed to pay tribute to freedom fighters Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru.

    The three younger freedom fighters had been hanged on the Lahore Central Jail in Lahore on March 23, 1931. The prime minister may even tackle the gathering through the occasion, the assertion stated.

    The gallery shows the contribution of the revolutionaries within the freedom wrestle and their armed resistance to British colonial rule. This facet has typically not been given its due place within the mainstream narrative of the liberty motion, it stated.

    Biplobi Bharat Gallery depicts the political and mental backdrop that triggered the revolutionary motion.

    It showcases the start of the revolutionary motion, formation of great associations by revolutionary leaders, unfold of the motion, formation of Indian National Army, contribution of Naval Mutiny, amongst others, the assertion stated.

  • BJP nominates MLA Agnimitra Paul towards Shatrughan Sinha of TMC for Asansol LS by-poll

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: The BJP on Friday named designer turned MLA Agnimitra Paul because the get together candidate for the by-election to the Asansol Lok Sabha constituency to contest towards Shatrughan Sinha of the Trinamool Congress.

    For the by-poll to Ballygunje meeting seat in Kolkata, the BJP’s girls’s wing chief Keya Ghosh, a identified face in tv panel discussions, has been nominated because the get together candidate. She was pitted towards former union minister and TMC candidate Babul Supriyo.

    The names have been introduced by the BJP central management in Delhi, the get together’s West Bengal spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya advised PTI. By-polls in each seats might be held on April 12 and votes might be counted on April 16.

    Paul had been elected to the state meeting from the Asansol South seat in Paschim Bardhaman district final yr on BJP ticket.

    TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee nominated actor turned politician Shatrughan Sinha to contest from the commercial metropolis of Asansol having a sizeable Hindi talking inhabitants.

    The Left Front fielded senior CPI(M) chief Partha Mukherjee because the candidate for the by-election within the Asansol Lok Sabha seat. It named Saira Shah Halim of the CPI(M) as its candidate for the bypoll within the Ballygunge meeting seat. She is a identified face on prime time debate reveals on nationwide information channels.

    The bypoll to Asansol was necessitated as Supriyo resigned because the BJP MP after becoming a member of the TMC in September final yr.

    The Ballygunge Assembly seat goes to the by-election as incumbent MLA and state minister Subrata Mukherjee died in November 2021. Paul couldn’t be contacted for her remark as she didn’t reply to calls and textual content messages.

    Keya Ghosh alleged that Supriyo had acted in essentially the most unethical method by switching loyalties. “Besides fighting against the TMC’s misrule and attack on democracy, my job will be to unmask Supriyo. He will be defeated in the by-poll,” she added.

  • Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad arrests man wished for abduction, killing of Kolkata jeweller

    By PTI

    AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has arrested a person, who was wished for the kidnapping and homicide of a Kolkata-based jeweller, from neighbouring Maharashtra, an official mentioned on Wednesday.

    A workforce of the ATS nabbed the accused Vishal Sharma from Shirdi in neighbouring Maharashtra, and has introduced him to Ahmedabad for questioning, he mentioned.

    Sharma, a local of Delhi, was wished by the police in Kolkata and Odisha, with the latter having introduced a reward of Rs 50,000 for info on his whereabouts, the ATS mentioned in a press release.

    On February 14, jeweller Shantilal Vaid (66) was discovered strangled to dying at a visitor home in Kolkata’s Bhowanipore space.

    Vaid had been kidnapped and his household had been requested to pay a ransom of Rs 1 crore, of which that they had paid Rs 25 lakh.

    The Kolkata police started the investigation primarily based on the CCTV footage and proof from the crime scene.

    Later, the police at Cuttack and Bhubaneswar of Odisha additionally joined the probe, the discharge said.

    The Gujarat ATS had acquired info that the accused was hiding in a resort in Ahmedabad’s Raipur Darwaja space, and following a probe, it was discovered that he was hiding in Shirdi by altering his id, it was said.

  • How a lot a home prices in Kolkata

    A home might be the most important spend for many Indians. And with city inhabitants growing manifold, shopping for a home in a big metropolis, which is the place most jobs are prone to be, has develop into tough—the primary impediment price. Determining a property’s worth is tough. Our compilation of property costs of distinguished localities in main cities and surrounding areas throughout India could assist you to examine and make an knowledgeable determination. Here are costs of some properties in value bands of under Rs50 lakh, Rs50-75 lakh, and above Rs75 lakh.

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