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File photo of Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. After hosting the recently concluded Women’s World Cup at unheralded centres in the country, the International Cricket Council (ICC) is expected to take the upcoming 2026 T20 World Cup back to the Tier 1 centres. The global cricket body staged the WWC fixtures in Indore, Visakhapatnam, Guwahati and…
KOLKATA: An elderly businessman and his wife lost Rs 3 crore after being “held hostage” in their Behala Parnasree home in the city for nearly two weeks by cyber-extortionists who used “digital arrest” to harass the couple for up to 20 hours a day, reports Dwaipayan Ghosh. Terrified by what they believed was constant “CBI…
NEW DELHI: Chaos broke out when a 24-year-old man arrested in an arms smuggling case stripped and began singing and dancing obscenely inside a police lockup in south Kolkata, police said Wednesday.The incident took place at the Ekbalpore police station, where the accused, Mohammad Shahbaz, was being held after his arrest on Monday.“His actions last…
KOLKATA: A homemaker partying with her husband, brother and friends at a premium weekend club in Kolkata’s Hyatt Regency was allegedly molested, assaulted and attacked with beer bottles following a brawl Sunday. The family reportedly hid inside the club’s liquor room for 30 minutes before the police rescued them. Among those named in the FIR…
CCTV footage showing the mob at the entrance to the officer’s complex KOLKATA: A mob of around 50, led by an auto driver, stormed a Sonarpur condominium, forced their way into the fourth-floor flat of customs inspector Pradeep Kumar and repeatedly assaulted him and his wife in front of their terrified four-year-old daughter on the…
Kolkata-Guangzhou IndiGo flight KOLKATA: Monica Liu lives and breathes Beijing, the ‘Tangra-style’ Chinese restaurant that is the beating heart of weekends in Kolkata’s Chinatown. But on Sunday night, Guangzhou was on her mind. For the first time in five years, she was on a direct flight from the city she calls home to the country…
Kolkata: People stage a protest over the alleged rape of a medical student in Durgapur of West Bengal, in Kolkata. (PTI Photo/Swapan Mahapatra) Durgapur: The Durgapur gang rape survivor identified five accused in the case, who allegedly violated and extorted her, at Durgapur Correctional Home on Friday in the presence of a magistrate. The sixth…
A peaceful gesture during a festive celebration turned deadly in Sonarpur, where Sanatan Naskar, 35, was fatally attacked after he attempted to silence the overpowering music of a Kali Puja pandal. After responding to a neighborhood complaint about the noise, Naskar found himself facing the wrath of festive revellers who launched a dangerous assault on…
NEW DELHI: A video of a stray dog riding in the Kolkata metro on Diwali has been making rounds on the internet. The video shows the dog going from one compartment to another to find a peaceful spot to rest. Many guessed it to be an attempt for the stray to avoid the loud noises…
DURGAPUR/KOLKATA: Two accused in the Durgapur gang-rape case, Sk Riyazuddin and Sk Safiq, moved a plea before a local court on Sunday for permission to confess their role in the Oct 10 incident.Police officers involved in the probe said if the court accepts the plea, the two may be treated as approvers during the trial….
