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India and China resume direct flights after a 5-year gap

The first flight, after the long hiatus, IndiGo 6E1703, carrying 176 passengers, took off from Kolkata's airport to Guangzhou Baiyun International airport.

Mamata condoles deaths due to electrocution after downpour in Kolkata. ‘Heard 7-8 people died’

Govt has declared school holidays due to heavy rain forecast in West Bengal for the next two days. Govt-run primary, upper primary, and higher secondary schools told to remain closed.

India’s ‘restraint’ amid US ‘betrayal’ may be ‘paying off’ & Kolkata’s Paris-esque nights

Financial Times writes about proposed Halting International Relocation of Employment (HIRE) Act in US which will 'affect prospects of' Indian giants such as TCS & Infosys.

India’s new restriction on jute imports from Bangladesh—can’t access land ports on border

This follows an earlier move in June this year when India imposed a stricter duty on jute imports from Bangladesh as bilateral relation gets increasingly tense.

Air India apologises after cockroaches found mid-flight on San Francisco-Mumbai route

The airline confirmed that during the flight's scheduled fuel stop in Kolkata, the aircraft was thoroughly cleaned to tackle the issue.

SubscriberWrites: The Kolkata I knew

Once a city where women walked freely and safely, Kolkata now grapples with a moral decay few could have imagined—what happened to the city we once knew and loved?

Over 300 animals ‘missing overnight’, there’s something fishy going on at Kolkata’s Alipore Zoo

City-based NGO Swazon has moved the Calcutta High Court alleging 'gross administrative negligence' at the British-era zoo, one of the country's oldest.

4 accused in Kolkata Law College gangrape case sent to 14-day judicial custody

Earlier, a court had sent three accused to police custody till 8 July, while the fourth was remanded till 4 July. The Kolkata Police detective department will now take over the probe.

South Calcutta Law College, where student was gang-raped, reopens

Decision comes after Kolkata police gave its go-ahead following the college's shutdown more than a week ago. Police have been deployed to oversee security on campus.

West Bengal post-poll violence: Individual accused of rape of 9-yr-old girl convicted

Violence erupted in state after 2021 assembly results were declared & multiple cases of murder, rape were reported, leading to filing of several writ petitions in the Calcutta HC.

On Camera

Pakistan can’t bomb or bargain its way out of the TTP-TLP mess

Among the many problems Pakistan is currently dealing with, the TLP and TTP offer two varying dimensions of the same one.

Kerala’s silent startup surge—work near home, smooth roads, fast internet & diaspora engagement

Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.

India & Israel ink agreement to share, co-develop & co-produce advanced defence tech

Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday. 

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.