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Team India lift the T20 world cup trophy (Photo by Gareth Copley/Getty Images) The Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad and Eden Gardens in Kolkata are the frontrunners to host the semifinals of the T20 World Cup, scheduled for February–March next year. As reported by Cricbuzz, the ICC has shortlisted eight venues across India and Sri…
Image of Crime Scene (TOI Image) TARAKESHWAR (HOOGHLY): A severely bleeding four-year-old child was found near a drain close to Tarakeshwar railway station, near Kolkata early on Saturday, sparking tension in the area.The child, who lived with her grandparents, was reportedly sleeping when the attacker cut the mosquito net and abducted her. She was later…
NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate on Thursday arrested Amar Nath Dutta, a Kolkata-based consultant who was allegedly involved with Reliance Power’s former CFO Ashok Pal in furnishing bogus bank guarantee of over Rs 68 crore provided by Reliance NU BESS to Solar Energy Corporation of India for issue of tender. Dutta, who claims to provide consultancy…
Kalyan Banerjee loses over Rs 55 Lakh in cyberfraud KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee allegedly fell victim to cyber fraud alleging that around Rs 56 lakh were siphoned from his bank account linked to his tenure as an MLA years ago. According to sources, the bank authorities themselves filed a complaint with the Kolkata…
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…
