The tazia market in Sultanul Madaris is abuzz with activity this Muharram after a lull of two years due to the pandemic. People from all walks of life are visiting to buy tazias and zaris ahead of Ashura.
Read MoreAlmost a fortnight after 47-year-old Manisha Dudhela was found murdered in her Vejalpur flat, the city police made its first arrest in the case. The accused confessed that Manisha’s former husband, who is an officer with the Central Intelligence Bureau, had given him the contract to kill her, said police.
Read MoreThe state registered 225 fresh Covid cases and one death in the last 24 hours. With this, the state’s Covid toll has increased to 12,285.
Read MoreFive Bagdogra-bound flights were diverted to Kolkata due to bad weather in North Bengal. Among the flights diverted was an Air Asia flight from Delhi and a SpiceJet flight from Mumbai.
Read MoreThe India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert – probability of heavy to very heavy rainfall – for Kolhapur and Satara districts till Tuesday.
Read MoreAfter a gap of about a decade, the state government has allowed government primary schools to hire music teachers. The education department recently gave its permission to district education and district primary education officers to hire a total of 1,753 music teachers on honorarium basis.
Read MoreTwo tourists from Diamond Harbour were killed in a bike accident on NH 2 on Saturday. They were travelling to Purulia.
Read MoreA 26-year-old woman was found dead in a pool of blood on the premises of a five-storey apartment complex in Baguiati on Friday night. Police suspect Titas Nandy fell from the terrace. Her husband Kaustav Sarkar was arrested on Saturday after her family members alleged he had pushed her off during an altercation over...
Read MoreAs the city experienced partially cloudy weather on Saturday, the Met forecast mentioned chances of heavy rainfall in Ahmedabad district at isolated places on Monday and Tuesday
Read MoreA Bijnor-born woman living in New York since 2018 killed herself shortly after sending a heart-wrenching video to her father in India saying she “couldn’t take the daily beatings (at the hands of her husband) anymore”. Though the video was sent on August 1, details of the sordid case are tumbling out just now.
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