Topic: Kolkata
Shutdowns, debts, layoffs: Bengal tanners pushed to the edge say 3rd Covid wave will finish us
Bengal tanners say industry has incurred massive losses, and they have been left to grapple with ‘cancelled orders’, disruption in the supply chain and growing debt as they struggle to stay afloat.
Large rallies, Hindi songs, Tagore’s poems — Mamata’s high-voltage campaign to win Bhabanipur
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has addressed close to a dozen rallies and public meetings as Trinamool Congress carries out an intense campaign for 30 September bypoll in Bhabanipur.
OTT channel Flixbug promises new era of entertainment and stories from Kolkata
It offers a wide variety of domestic and international films, original web series, and reality shows. It will showcase Ebar Shalyajit, the last work of legendary actors, the late Soumitro Chattopadhyay, and Madhabi Mukherjee.
Calcutta University professor booked for allegedly threatening to kill Mamata Banerjee
The case was registered against Arindam Bhattacharya, a professor of the Zoology dept over his social media post on the basis of a complaint filed by a PhD scholar of the university.
How British used Indian Railways, free cups, and targeted women to make Indians tea drinkers
In ‘Taste of Time’, Mohona Kanjilal writes that tea wasn’t widely drunk in India before the British came. Then the Opium Wars with China happened.
37 people partying at top Kolkata hotel arrested for violating Covid rules
Two high-end cars and 38 mobile phones were among several items seized in the raid at the Park Hotel on Park Street in the heart of the city, Kolkata Police said.
Fake IAS officer behind Kolkata Covid vaccine ‘scam’ under lens for fake raids, tenders too
Accused Debanjan Deb is believed to have once harboured IAS ambitions, driven by his father who retired as a deputy director of the excise department.
Fake vaccines, fake camp, fake IAS officer — Kolkata ‘scam’ that didn’t spare even Trinamool MP
Matter came to light after actor-MP Mimi Chakraborty flagged issue as she did not get SMS after taking her shot. Man who organised the camps arrested on impersonation, other charges.
CBI moves SC against high court’s house arrest order of 4 TMC leaders in Narada case
The Calcutta High Court on 21 May ordered the shifting of two West Bengal ministers, an MLA and a former Kolkata mayor to house arrest from jail.
Bengal ‘yet to touch Covid peak’ but Kolkata is already running out of hospital beds
State database shows nearly 500 vacant beds, but a check with a few hospitals shows these numbers aren't entirely reliable. This at a time experts warn the Covid wave is yet to peak in Bengal.
YourTurn
Why Colin Powell’s death from Covid complications argues for vaccines, not against it
Powell, who was fighting multiple myeloma, needed as many people around him as possible to be vaccinated to diminish his chances of encountering the virus.
Bitcoin pushes toward record high before futures exchange-traded fund debut
The ProShares bitcoin-linked exchange-traded fund will trade on the NYSE. The move is the latest sign of how cryptocurrency-related investments are becoming more mainstream.
Defence
China has ramped up troops deployment, infra along LAC but so have we — Eastern Army commander
Eastern Army Commander Lt Gen Manoj Pande says there has been a 'marginal increase' in patrolling activities in some areas along the LAC.
Mohan Bhagwat is right, China is the big threat. But his prescription to counter it is flawed
India can fight China, but it needs peace & stability at home. It can't take on Beijing while re-lighting old fires like NRC or polarising Hindus & Muslims to win elections.