Kolkata High Court Orders Demolition of Sevashray Health Camp Structures
Kolkata, September 3: The Kolkata High Court has ordered the immediate removal and demolition of two temporary structures associated with the Sevashray health camp in the Falta area of South 24 Parganas district. This health initiative is linked to Abhishek Banerjee, the general secretary of the Trinamool Congress and MP from Diamond Harbour. The directive ... Read more Kolkata High Court Orders Demolition of Sevashray Health Camp Structures
Derek O'Brien questioned by Kolkata Police for 5 hours in illegal billboard row
Derek O'Brien appeared before Kolkata Police for questioning regarding a billboard removal incident. He was questioned for approximately five hours at the Shakespeare Sarani police station. This questioning followed a similar interrogation of Abhishek Banerjee the previous day. Three FIRs have been filed, naming several Trinamool Congress leaders in the case. Police have arrested thirteen individuals in connection with the ongoing investigation.
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Indian Cricketer, Named After Shah Rukh Khan, Picks Salman Khan Instead
Shahrukh Khan has had multiple chances to meet his famous namesake during his IPL career, especially in matches against Kolkata Knight Riders.
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India-Brazil Football Friendly: Tickets In High Demand
Kolkata's passionate football fans have shown immense enthusiasm for the upcoming India-Brazil friendly, with lower-priced tickets selling out within an hour of going online. India is set to play five-time world champions Brazil on October 3, followed by a match against two-time world champions Uruguay, providing a significant test for the Indian squad ahead of crucial Asian Cup qualifiers.
'I Really Wish To Meet Salman Khan More Than SRK: Cricketer Shahrukh Khan
Tamil Nadu Premier League: Tamil Nadu cricketer Shahrukh Khan has spent much of his career carrying a name instantly recognisable across India, but despite the obvious connection to Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, the Tamil Nadu batter has a different celebrity at the top of his wish list. Shahrukh, who recently led Kovai Kings to their third Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) title, said he has not yet met the Bollywood superstar he was named after. If he could choose, the Tamil Nadu player would rather meet Salman Khan than his famous namesake. I really wish to meet Salman Khan more than Shah Rukh, the cricketer said in an exclusive conversation with IANS. The 29-year-old has had multiple chances to meet his famous namesake during his IPL career, especially in matches against Kolkata Knight Riders. However, these opportunities never came to fruition since Shah Rukh Khan was absent from the games. I havent (met him) as yet. I havent met Shahrukh Khan as yet. But yeah, hope to meet him soon. We played quite a few matches against KKR. But I actually missed the opportunity to meet Shahrukh Khan. He obviously did not come for the game. If he would have come, obviously, I would have met him. But you know, I really wish to meet Salman Khan more than Shahrukh, he said. The meeting with Shah Rukh Khan might be especially intriguing for the cricketer. Since he was born after the Bollywood star, Shahrukh is aware that he was named after the actor and is eager to see how the superstar responds when they finally meet. No, I will wait for his reaction first. Because I was born after him. So, I was named after him. So, I hope, I have heard that he has got an uncanny sense of humour. Obviously, I am good friends with Varun Chakravarthy. And he said that he is a really wonderful person at heart .And waiting to see what sort of an uncanny sense of humour he has. And yeah, really excited to meet him, he said. While his name has often been a talking point, Shahrukh has carved out his own identity in Tamil Nadu cricket over the past several years. He has been part of the states cricket circuit for about two decades and has emerged as one of Tamil Nadus leading white-ball players. His journey has taken him to the IPL, where he has played for multiple franchises and, most recently, represented Gujarat Titans. The most recent achievement was in the TNPL, where he guided Kovai Kings to their third championship. The team beat Madurai Panthers by 84 runs in the final, making them only the second team in the tournament's history to secure three titles. Shahrukh sees the TNPLs significance extending beyond his personal achievements. He considers the tournament a crucial stepping stone for young cricketers in Tamil Nadu, having already facilitated several players' progress to the IPL and other higher tiers of domestic cricket. Yeah, TNPL has been a platform for a lot of players from Tamil Nadu including me, Natarajan, Varun Chakravarthy, a lot of players and the way the tournament has grown over the years is just immense. And not just TNPL but the other leagues that happen around India as well. But the first domestic tournament for a state T20 was TNPL and very fortunate to be a part of this tournament, he said. And every year, you see new talents coming up. I hope even this year, the IPL scouts see a few talents and picks so that the tournament grows even bigger next year, he added. Shahrukhs own TNPL campaign was particularly significant following a difficult IPL 2026 season with Gujarat Titans. And every year, you see new talents coming up. I hope even this year, the IPL scouts see a few talents and picks so that the tournament grows even bigger next year, he added. Also Read: Special Cricket Stories I was having a technical flaw in my batting. I had a technical flaw which was hampering my batting quite a lot from the last 7-8 months. I've really come back from IPL and worked on it. My front foot was going too far across which I never used to do that before. Yeah, I had a proper couple of months in between where I could focus on my technique and get as tight as possible in that, he said. Article Source: IANS
India vs Brazil: Where and how to buy match tickets
The All India Football Federation has announced a series of high-profile international friendly matches for the Indian men's national team. India will host Panama on September 26 in Bengaluru, followed by five-time world champions Brazil on October 3 and two-time world champions Uruguay on October 6, both in Kolkata. These matches represent a significant step for Indian football, offering the team a chance to compete against top-ranked global opponents.
Tickets Sale For India vs Brazil Friendly Begins. Where To Buy, What Are The Prices - Full Details
Tickets for the international friendly match between India and Brazil, scheduled for October 3 in Kolkata, have gone live, announced the All India Football Federation (AIFF) on Wednesday in a social media post.
31 Bangladeshi Migrants Deported from Bengaluru to Malda
Kolkata, September 2: A group of 31 Bangladeshi migrants recently arrested by police in Bengaluru has been transported to Malda district in West Bengal. Currently, this group is being held at a temporary detention center near the Bangladesh border. Legal procedures for their return to Bangladesh have commenced, and they are expected to be handed ... Read more 31 Bangladeshi Migrants Deported from Bengaluru to Malda
IIT Kharagpur Shines in US Aeronautics Competition, Secures 5th Place in Asia
Kolkata, September 2: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur has made a remarkable debut in the Design/Build/Fly competition organized by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) in Wichita, Kansas. This was IIT Kharagpurs first participation in this prestigious event. Competing against 98 university teams from 12 countries and 1,179 participants, IIT Kharagpurs ... Read more IIT Kharagpur Shines in US Aeronautics Competition, Secures 5th Place in Asia
Tickets on sale for India vs Brazil friendly in Kolkata on October 3
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IndiGo to start daily flights from Mum-Hanoi
IndiGo will start daily direct flights between Mumbai and Hanoi from October 25, 2026, the airline said on Wednesday. The new service will expand its connectivity to Vietnam and add to its existing daily direct flights to Hanoi from Delhi and Kolkata.The Mumbai-Hanoi service will operate as flight 6E 1637, departing Mumbai at 4:15 am and arriving in Hanoi at 10 am. The return flight, 6E 1638, will leave Hanoi at 7:05 pm and reach Mumbai at 11:05 pm. All timings are local.Also Read: Will continue working with airlines, OTAs & travel agents across India to build on demand: DCT Abu Dhabi top executiveThe new route will strengthen direct air connectivity between India and Vietnam, catering to both leisure and business travel demand between the two countries.IndiGo will also offer its IndiGoStretch business-class product on the route, with features including wider seats, increased legroom, hot meals, in-seat charging and priority services.Also Read: Thailand cuts visa-free stay from 60 to 30 days for tourists from 60 countries, including IndiaThe airline said bookings for the new service are available through its website, mobile app, 6Eskai and authorised travel partners.The schedule is subject to regulatory approvals.
Kolkata High Court Grants Interim Bail to CPI(M) Leader in BarUIPur Violence Case
Kolkata, September 2: The Kolkata High Court has granted interim bail to CPI(M) leader Mohammad Lahek Ali. This decision was made by a single-judge bench on Wednesday. Ali was arrested in July by the West Bengal Polices STF in connection with violence that erupted following the rape and murder of a girl in BarUIPur, South ... Read more Kolkata High Court Grants Interim Bail to CPI(M) Leader in BarUIPur Violence Case
Arunachal: IndiGo plans expansion of connectivity from Itanagar to major cities from October 10
Starting October 10, IndiGo will expand air connectivity from Itanagar to key metropolitan areas including Delhi, Kolkata and Bengaluru. The aim is to facilitate travel for residents of Arunachal Pradesh's capital.
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Calcutta HC grants interim bail to CPI(M) leader in Baruipur violence case
Calcutta HC grants interim bail to CPI(M) leader in Baruipur violence case Kolkata: A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday granted interim bail to CPI(M) leader Md Lahek Ali, who was arrested in July this year by the Special Task Force (STF) of West Bengal Police in connection with the massive unrest [] The post Calcutta HC grants interim bail to CPI(M) leader in Baruipur violence case appeared first on Mangalorean.com .
This year, a well-known Kolkata Janmashtami celebration is undergoing a noteworthy organizational change. The event, which has historically embraced multicultural involvement, will now be exclusively managed by Hindu members. This decision comes in light of comments made by a local BJP representative regarding religious festivities. The Muslim community has been a vital part of this celebration for many years, marking its significance in the 58th iteration.
Derek O'Brien appears before Kolkata cops over scuffle at Abhishek Banerjee's office
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Kolkata Police, Fire Officials Inspect Abhishek Banerjee
Fire officials flag six safety lapses at Banerjees office days after a heated billboard removal clash.
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Kolkata, September 2: Mahua Moitra, a Member of Parliament from the Trinamool Congress, encountered protests while attending a workers conference in Nadia district on Tuesday. Demonstrators surrounded her vehicle with black flags, leading to heightened tensions in the Chapra area. Despite being inside her car, Moitra was unable to leave the site due to the ... Read more Mahua Moitra Faces Protests During Event in Nadia, West Bengal
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The Clock India Has Not Built Yet
TECHNOLOGY & NATIONAL SECURITY In 1999, during the Kargil conflict, India asked the United States for GPS data over the heights and was turned down. That refusal is the founding document of India's own satellite navigation programme. NavIC exists because somebody in Washington decided Indian soldiers did not need to know where they were standing. Twenty-seven years on, the government has made Indian time legally binding. On 27 August, the Department of Consumer Affairs notified the Legal Metrology (Indian Standard Time) Rules, 2026, as G.S.R. 761(E). Indian Standard Time becomes the only lawful reference for civil, commercial and legal purposes. For telecommunications, financial services, energy and data centres, the rules also name the sources time may be drawn from. GPS is not one of them. Four weeks earlier, the same government had told Parliament that NavIC could no longer fix a position on its own. A mandate arrives before the machinery Rule 7 is the widest clause. No entity may use, display or record any time reference other than IST, for any purpose. Storing timestamps in Coordinated Universal Time is ordinary practice in server logs worldwide. Whether the rule reaches that, or only the time an organisation holds out as official, the text does not say. MediaNama, which reported the rules first, has asked the department and has no answer yet. Rule 6(4) then makes accuracy the responsibility of whoever uses the signal rather than whoever supplies it, and Rule 6(5) requires that user to monitor deviation, log it, and prove traceability to the national standard. A stock exchange does this already. A cooperative bank or a regional internet provider in Srinagar does not. Rule 9(6) extends redundancy obligations to defence, power grids, telecommunications, banking and data centres, then adds enterprises and an open-ended etcetera. That is a scope with no visible edge. The rules take effect 180 days after gazette publication, placing commencement in early 2027. The constellation that cannot navigate On 29 July, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Space Dr Jitendra Singh told the House that only three NavIC satellites still deliver positioning, navigation and timing service. Four are needed for a fix. His wording was careful. NavIC cannot provide standalone positioning, he said, but its timing service is functional. The distinction is real. Positioning needs a fourth satellite to solve for the error inside the receiver's own clock. Timing is a lighter demand. The difficulty is the sentence after it. Users face no operational vulnerability, the reply said, because Indian receivers work in a multi-constellation environment combining NavIC with GPS, Galileo and GLONASS. The armed forces do the same. One arm of the government defends the condition of NavIC by pointing at GPS. Another arm, four weeks later, writes GPS out of the authorised list for the sectors where failure hurts most. The rest of the picture is thin. IRNSS-1B went up in 2014 and has outlived its ten-year design life. NVS-02 was stranded in transfer orbit in January 2025 after a valve failure. NVS-03 sits ready at Sriharikota with a launch expected in early September, and two more are to follow without a date. Why a clock is a target Between November 2023 and February 2025, airlines reported 465 GPS interference and spoofing incidents in Indian airspace, a figure the Civil Aviation Ministry has confirmed in Parliament. Most were in the Amritsar and Jammu corridors. Readers here will not need that geography explained. The problem has since moved inland. Spoofing was reported around Indira Gandhi International Airport late last year, with interference logged at Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai and Bengaluru. The DGCA now wants pilots and controllers to report a GNSS anomaly within ten minutes. Timing sits underneath much more than aviation. Mobile networks hand a call from one tower to the next on the assumption that both agree about the microsecond. Power grids compare phase measurements across state boundaries. Every log a forensic investigation depends on is a claim about when something happened. That is why time is worth attacking. An adversary who shifts your clock steals nothing. He corrupts the record that any later inquiry will read. Which is also the strongest argument for the new rules. GPS is a foreign military signal, it was withheld from India once, and it is being interfered with along the western border now. Two routes to the same room The objection is not to the direction. It is to the order of operations. Rule 8(2) obliges the Director, Legal Metrology to publish the addresses and access protocols of every authorised timing service. No such list is public. Engineers were asking for exactly this in 2022, when CERT-In first told organisations to synchronise their clocks with NIC or NPL servers. Publication is now a legal duty and still has not happened. Capacity is no clearer. Answering an RTI filed by MediaNama in December 2022, CSIR-NPL said it ran 20 NTP servers, all of them at one location in Delhi. NIC declined to give a count, citing security. Those figures are nearly four years old, and nothing public has replaced them. Then there is the part that is easy to miss. NavIC does not keep independent time. Published metrology work on the IRNSS Network Timing Facility describes its time scales as linked to UTC(NPLI), the realisation of universal time maintained at CSIR-NPL in Delhi. For a bank in Jammu, NavIC and the national time servers are not two independent sources of truth. They are two routes to the same laboratory. The rules also decline to say how accurate is accurate enough. Rule 2(a) defines accuracy as conformity to IST without a millisecond or microsecond figure anywhere in eight pages, and Rule 10 provides for audits against a standard the text never states. Rule 11 says a breach is punishable under the Act without naming a section or an amount, and Rule 8(5) lets the Director charge a fee for legally mandated time. Bottom Line Sovereign time is the right objective. A country that refused a navigation signal during a war should not run its banks and its grid on a foreign military system it cannot audit or repair. But a mandate is not a capability, and withdrawing the fallback before the primary is ready produces exposure with better paperwork. Three things ought to be public before these rules bite. The authorised source list Rule 8(2) already requires. The current number and physical distribution of NTP and PTP servers at NPL and NIC. And an answer to a question nobody in government has yet been asked: what happens to Indian time if the Delhi facility goes dark? (The author studies Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA. He is interested in emerging technologies and innovation, and can be reached on LinkedIn at @arssh-kumar14)
Sugar stock limit halved from Sept 15
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The report, released Monday, said that sea level rise is already damaging urban infrastructure, water systems, transport networks, energy grids, buildings and groundwater resources.
UN warns Kolkata, Mumbai face immediate home loss risk from rising seas
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Govt cuts dealers' sugar stock holding to 2,000 qtls to curb retail prices
The Centre on Tuesday further tightened the stock holding limit for sugar dealers, cutting it from 4,000 quintals to 2,000 quintals, effective from September 15 to November 30, as it looked to rein in high retail prices of the sweetener. The stock holding limit of 4,000 quintals, first imposed on August 1, will, however, remain unchanged for Kolkata and its extended metropolitan areas, considering the specific market requirements of the region, the food ministry said in a statement. The move is aimed at ensuring adequate availability of sugar in the domestic market and checking hoarding and speculative trading, the ministry added. Under the amended norms, a dealer cannot hold any stock for more than 30 days from the date of receipt, and cannot hold sugar, at any time, anywhere in the country, in excess of 2,000 quintals. Explaining the exemption for Kolkata, the ministry said the region sources sugar from Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra and supplies it onward to the eastern and ...
