Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], September 4: Imagine six-year-old children, barely out of kindergarten, bent forward under a bag weighing nearly a quarter of their own body weight. This isn't a hypothetical scenario. It is a crisis in plain sight, a reality for millions of Indian schoolchildren - and a health concern that Kolkata-based social and cultural activist Sundeep Bhutoria has now thrust into the national spotlight.
Rankings don't matter, says Brazil legend Cafu ahead of IND vs BRA friendly
Brazil are currently ranked fifth in the world, while India are 138th, making the Kolkata fixture the highest-ranked opposition the Indian team has faced since the FIFA World Rankings were introduced
World champions coming to India: Forln names Valverde, Nez-led Uruguay squad
Uruguay have announced a 46-player preliminary list for upcoming FIFA international matches. The squad includes prominent players like Federico Valverde and Darwin Nez. India will host Uruguay on October 6 in Kolkata. This match follows India's encounter with Brazil three days prior. The Panama friendly has been rescheduled to September 25.
Hotel crackdown leaves Bangladeshi patients without a roof in Kolkata
Bangladesh Deputy High Commission urges visitors to confirm hotel bookings before travelling
After Thug Life Setback, Mani Ratnam Shows Up Again
This time, Mani Ratnam has chosen West Bengal and its culture as the backdrop. The story is set in Kolkata, with the citys local trains seemingly playing an important part in the narrative.
KMC Seizes 500 Kg Meat, Fish From Kolkata
Kolkatas civic food-safety team seized around 500 kg of chicken and fish from Big Boss, while the restaurant said it was only four days stock.
DGMA launches Seafarer Tracking Module on e-NAVIC portal
DGMA launches Seafarer Tracking Module on e-NAVIC portal Kolkata: In order to keep track of Indian seafarers on both Indian and foreign-flagged vessels, the Directorate General of Maritime Administration (DGMA) has launched the Seafarer Tracking Module on its e-NAVIK portal. In view of the prevailing geopolitical tensions and heightened maritime security threats, merchant shipping and [] The post DGMA launches Seafarer Tracking Module on e-NAVIC portal appeared first on Mangalorean.com .
West Bengal fire department orders vacating the basement and two floors of Abhisheks office
The order by the WB Fire Department directed not to use the premises at Camac Street until and unless the fire safety measures were complied with and the Renewal of Fire Safety Certificate was obtained.The premises used by Trinamool Congress general Secretary Abhishek Banerjee was vandalised on Thursday.
Three bonded labour victims rescued from cold storage at West Bengals Alipurduar
Local contractors from Sundarbans had engaged the victims after payment of some advance and all the three were denied minimum wages and their movement was restricted. The rescue was made from a cold storage facility.
In a first, Cal HC orders CBI probe in digital arrest case
Fire dept tags Abhishek Banerjees Camac Street office unsafe, orders it vacated
State govt set to appoint Mithun as cultural adviser
N-S Line: Smoke Billows From Metro Train
Hoax Bomb Letter In Kol-Gorakhpur Flight Lavatory
Bengal govt to develop flats, plots for 3,500 families
State suspends teacher, files FIR in school tilak row
Portion of balcony and roof of old building in Kolkata collapses
Some Craters Filled Up, New Ones Appear On Rain-Battered Bypass
Clear Illegal Stalls Around Parsi Fire Temple: Cal HC tells KMC, KP
KMC food team reaches Park Street, seizes stale items from eateries
Salt Lake unit among 17 eateries sealed
No trains, steep flight & bus fares: N Bengal travel trauma on Janmashtami weekend
Bomb scare at Kolkata airport after note found on Gorakhpur-bound flight, passengers evacuated
A bomb scare was witnessed at Kolkata airport after a note found on Gorakhpur-bound flight, triggering a panic among passengers. The note was written on a tissue paper kept inside a toilet paper roll in...
Darjeeling Mail makes unscheduled halt to deliver milk to infant
Kolkata school suspends teacher over
Kolkata: Prodded by West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, a private missionary school in Kolkata suspended a teacher following an allegation that she repeatedly removed a sandalwood mark (tilak) from the forehead of a young student, an official said on Friday, September 4. A First Information Report (FIR) was also registered against the teacher. Get the latest updates in Hyderabad City News , Technology , Entertainment , Sports , Politics and Top Stories on WhatsApp & Telegram by subscribing to our channels. You can also download our app for Android and iOS .
Kolkata Fire Department Orders Evacuation of Abhishek Banerjees Office Due to Safety Violations
The Kolkata Fire Department has ordered the evacuation of Abhishek Banerjees office for failing to meet fire safety regulations. Kolkata Fire Department Orders Evacuation of Abhishek Banerjees Office Due to Safety Violations
N Bengal train ops paralysed for second day over repeated track subsidence
Fear of sexual harassment not enough for complaint under POSH Act: Cal HC
EC members urge restoration of academic activities
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3 bonded labourers rescued from Alipurduar unit
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'No fire safety': Abhishek office floors face eviction
The West Bengal Fire Department has ordered the evacuation of the basement and two floors of a high-rise building in central Kolkata, which houses TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee's office, due to a lack of fire safety measures. The order follows the expiry of the building's fire safety certificate and non-compliance with mandatory regulations, posing a threat to life and property.
WB Fire Dept Asks Abhishek To Vacate His Kolkata Party Office
West Bengal fire department has directed TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee to vacate his Kolkata party office over inadequate fire safety measures and an expired certificate.
Beyond Beijing & Shanghai, Nanjing & Changsha emerge as Chinas new tourist hotspots
After Kunal letter, MHA asks Bengal to probe allegations against Ritabrata
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Building partially collapses in Shyampukur area of Kolkata, rescue ongoing
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Bengal to get 1,000 RSS schools for nationalistic learning: CM
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday, September 3, said that at least 1,000 schools run by Vidya Bharati, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sanghs (RSS) educational wing, will be set up within a year. Speaking at the 74th anniversary of Vidya Bharti at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, he appealed to the educational body Get the latest updates in Hyderabad City News , Technology , Entertainment , Sports , Politics and Top Stories on WhatsApp & Telegram by subscribing to our channels. You can also download our app for Android and iOS .
Outrage in Kolkata as Former Municipal Chief Faces Public Fury Over Rape and Murder Case
Former municipal chief Somnath Dey faces public anger after being arrested in a high-profile rape and murder case in Kolkata. Outrage in Kolkata as Former Municipal Chief Faces Public Fury Over Rape and Murder Case
Operation Chakra-VI: CBI conducts searches 89 locations in 20 states, three held
The CBI said on Friday that three people were arrested during the operation in Haryana and Kolkata for their alleged involvement in receiving, layering and transferring money obtained through the fraudulent schemes
Fire department orders evacuation of TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee's office in Kolkata over safety norms
TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee's office is again in controversy. The fire department on Friday ordered the evacuation of Abhishek Banerjee's office at 9 Camak Street in Kolkata. Notably, the Fire Department ordered the 6th and...
Kolkata Building Housing Abhishek Banerjee's Office To Be Partially Vacated
A week ago, authorities removed an illegal billboard of the Trinamool from the same building.
How filmmaker Sulagna Chatterjee crowdfunded Olakh with 230 supporters
A long therapy session gave Sulagna Chatterjee the beginnings of Olakh; months of crowdfunding gave her the means to make it. The short film, starring Suhasini Mulay and Nikita Grover has travelled from a Mumbai kitchen to the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], September 4: The Manicktala Chaltabagan Lohapatty Durga Puja Committee today announced 'Nishan - The Mark' as the theme of its 84th Durga Puja along with the release of a especially composed musical theme by Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and the soon-to-be launched Durga Puja Connect app, a global digital initiative that will carry Durga Puja - inscribed by UNESCO on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2021 - to devotees, organisers, the diaspora and admirers across the world.
Gita Gopinath warns AI could make India
GITA GOPINATH, one of the most influential economists in the world, has spoken of the challenges that India faces because of the advent of AI. Gopinath, who held the number two position at the International Monetary Fund, but returned to academia last year, also expressed deep concern about how the trade wars unleashed by US president Donald Trump are damaging the world economy. Gopinath was born in India and now lives in America as a US citizen; she was picked out by the Financial Times in 2021 as one of the 25 most influential women of the year. She is currently the Gregory and Ania Coffey professor of economics at Harvard University, where her neighbour is the Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen. She previously served as the first deputy managing director of the IMF from January 2022 to August 2025. This was the number two position in the organisation. Before that, she also served as chief economist of the IMF between 2019 and 2022. Her job, then as now, is to try and bring stability to the global economy. Last week she occupied the Lunch with the FT slot in an interview with the papers US economics editor, Claire Jones. Now that she is no longer constrained by her position at the IMF, Gopinath feels free to attack Trumps tariff wars. Kenneth Rogoff Alex Wong/Getty Images I joke to my former colleagues that I can now use my whole vocabulary, she said. I can actually say trade wars instead of trade tensions. Theres always a sense that you dont want to trigger a crisis in a country, for sure, she says though she adds that she was probably way more guarded than she needed to be, according to the FT. Now back in academia, it is clear Gopinath intends to use her newfound freedom to speak out in defence of the postwar economic order of free trade and financial integration coming under unprecedented attack from the Trump administration, added the FT. It said: She is less sympathetic when it comes to President Donald Trumps attempts to upend the economic order that she has devoted her lifes work to. But the high tariffs that have dominated Trumps economic agenda in his second term constitute straight-out protectionism in an extreme form and its not just about countries you think you have some rivalry with, but towards your allies. I dont know any economist whod say this is a good set of policies. Gopinaths background is that she was born on December 8, 1971, in Kolkata into a Malayali family from Kannur, Kerala, and studied at Nirmala Convent School in Mysore. She received a BA from Lady Shri Ram College for Women of the University of Delhi in 1992 and an MA in economics from Delhi School of Economics in 1994. She further completed an MA at the University of Washington in 1996. She earned her PhD in economics from Princeton University in 2001 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled Three essays on international capital flows: a search theoretic approach, under the supervision of Ben Bernanke, Kenneth Rogoff and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas. She was awarded Princetons Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Research Award while doing her doctoral research. The FT said: At school in Mysore, in the south-western state of Karnataka, Gopinath was obsessed with science. But her father and some cousins convinced her to try for the Indian Administrative Service an elite government service and thought studying economics in Delhi would help. By the time Gopinath arrived in 1989 at the highly competitive Lady Shri Ram College, however, she had decided to apply for political science as a backup. When she said she would like to try out for economics too, the principal a political scientist became annoyed. I got super nervous and said sure, sure, put me down for political science. A senior student responsible for registering people for the course intervened. If it was not for her, I would have done political science. It was completely random, she says. The FT pointed out: Indias balance of payments crisis in the early 1990s brought the IMF to the country and, for Gopinath, the dismal science to life. After a masters at the Delhi School of Economics, she headed to the University of Washington and then to Princeton, where her doctoral advisers were Gourinchas, future Fed chair Ben Bernanke and Kenneth Rogoff. She credits Rogoff as her biggest professional mentor, saying that he was ahead of his time in doing all he could to encourage his female students. The fact that there are quite a few women in international finance [shows] Ken has [had] an important role to play, she says. Gopinath retains her close India links: While her schedule at Harvard is nowhere near as hectic as it was during her time at the IMF, Gopinath continues to travel the world including back to India. She expects to make four trips this year to see her parents, elder sister and other family members. Gopinath is a US national and an overseas citizen of India. I ask her if America still feels like home. Very much so, she says. Its a great country, no doubt about that...it frees you up from a whole lot of daily worries that people have in many countries including India. Sometimes at 2am, Im filling gas at a gas station and Im not worried. And that is so liberating because it frees you up to do much more exciting work. I definitely feel much safer here than, for example, if I were in Delhi, [where] Id be careful about where I was going. Gopinath warns technological change could pose challenges for Indias software services sector Indraneel Mukherjee/AFP via Getty Images She outlined the harm that Trump had done to US academia: Gopinath still believes US universities are the best places to pursue a doctorate in economics even though there are many more private-sector opportunities in India now than when she left in 1994. However, Trumps immigration clampdown would, she says, have made her think twice about coming here now. It would [have felt] too risky, too uncertain, too unpredictable. She adds: Thats a big mistake what the US has been fantastic at is drawing talent from around the world. That used to be valued and praised and recognised, and now, unfortunately, were going in the other direction. Gopinath was asked if there are parallels between Trumps and Indian premier Narendra Modis disdain for mainstream economic thought and the institutions, such as the IMF and Harvard, that practise it. Many economists, including Gopinaths office neighbour Amartya Sen, criticised the Indian governments shock decision in November 2016 to ban 86 per cent of cash overnight, with no warning, as part of a crackdown on the shadow economy. Modi responded to Sen by declaring that hard work was more powerful than Harvard. Gopinath replies swiftly: I never thought Id say this, but I think the economic policies in the US are more heterodox compared to the policies in India. Quite obviously so. Gopinaths comments on India are measured: While Gopinath lauds India for the huge economic reforms the country has made since she left, there remains a lack of jobs for young people. Many like she once did continue to pursue public-sector roles, spending their twenties preparing to sit exams amid a paucity of secure private-sector jobs that offer healthcare. She worries that the advent of AI will exacerbate the problems associated with Indias complex bureaucracy especially in an economy that has relied heavily on software services for good jobs. If youre in a country where its hard to start a business, its going to bite a lot, she says. The US is super easy In India its still complicated If they dont fix that ease of doing business, its even more consequential now than it was before AI.
Gold, Silver Prices Today, September 4: Check 24K, 22K Gold and 999 Silver Rates
Gold prices edged lower in Indias retail market on Friday, while silver also declined. Here are the latest rates for Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Chennai. Gold and silver prices today, September 4: Precious metal prices moved lower in Indias retail market on Friday, with both gold and silver recording modest declines. The latest [] The post Gold, Silver Prices Today, September 4: Check 24K, 22K Gold and 999 Silver Rates first appeared on informalnewz .
How fans can watch India's football matches vs Brazil, Panama and Uruguay
India will first face Panama at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru before travelling to Kolkata for back-to-back fixtures against Brazil and Uruguay on October 3 and 6
Gold and silver prices today, 4 September: Check the latest 24K, 22K gold and 999 silver retail rates across Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and other major Indian cities, along with MCX market updates.
Jadavpur University students use ex-PM Vajpayees remark to justify Free Palestine graffiti
Six arrested after Abhishek Banerjee alleges armed men vandalised Kolkata office
The MP alleged that the armed men entered the office around 4.30 am, assaulted workers, snatched their mobile phones and ransacked the premises
CM to invite PM, HM to attend mega Mahalaya ceremony at Eden
1,000 Vidya Bharati schools in Bengal within a year: CM
Kolkata Police Busts Fake Call Center Racket, 67 Arrested Including 41 Women
Kolkata police have arrested 67 individuals, including 41 women, in a major fake call center operation involving fraud. Kolkata Police Busts Fake Call Center Racket, 67 Arrested Including 41 Women
On Uttam Kumars birth centenary, West Bengal CM vows to keep politics out of Tollywood
14 masked men ransack Abhisheks Camac Street office at dawn, 6 held
Didi warns of Delhi march, dharna if atrocities continue in Bengal
Swine Flu Numbers Spike In Last 7 Days, Many Seek Hospitalisation
Fake call centre busted, owner, 39 others arrested
High Fever, Immune Reaction: Hosps Start Getting Serious Dengue Cases
KMC Starts Repair Of Mominpore Road After CP Steps In
Celluloid prints of Nayak, Harano Sur to be screened for Uttam centenary
Govt wont engage in politics in Tollywood, says chief minister as film industry honours Mahanayak
Panic in Tangra after KMC visit, many restaurants throw away food stock
Elderly woman makes off with 1.5 kg hilsa from fish market
VIP Rd Zones, Airport Approach Under Water, Flyers Face Trauma On Ground
Nepals DNA order will help us, say families of missing tourists
Tram revival plan on PPP model: Aussie, Belarus cos show interest
Civic team reaches star hotel kitchens
KMC mulls action against eatery
ACB Busts Old Extortion Syndicate, Exposes UPI-Based Racket Involving Cops Across Kolkata Region
(SPECIAL) HC upholds life terms, says dying declaration to independent witness admissible
TMC Office Vandalised In Kolkata? Mamata Blames BJP-Backed Men, Warns Delhi Dharna
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has launched a sharp attack on the BJP after alleged vandalism at the TMC office on Kolkata's Camac Street. Mamata accused BJP-backed men of attacking the office and alleged that documents and equipment were taken away. She warned that the TMC would stage dharnas outside BJP leaders' homes in New Delhi if such atrocities continued. Six people have been arrested in connection with the incident. Abhishek Banerjee also shared purported CCTV footage showing masked men carrying electronic equipment from the premises. The incident has triggered another TMC-BJP political confrontation. Watch
JU students use Vajpayee quote in reclaim re-run
State to issue show-cause notices to 450 BEd colleges
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Watch: Can India-Belgium defence ties unlock new potential? | Above the Fold | Sept 3, 2026
India and Belgium have agreed to deepen defence and security cooperation, with a focus on military exchanges, training, maritime security, intelligence sharing and joint development and production of defence equipment. What does this expanding partnership mean for India? Also in focus: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay announces plans for a new integrated Secretariat complex in Chennai, the Supreme Court declines to entertain a plea challenging restrictions on journalists and activists entering government schools, TMC leader Abhishek Banerjees Kolkata office is vandalised, and Telangana CM A. Revanth Reddy recommends Konda Surekhas removal from the Cabinet. Above the Fold is The Hindus daily news show, bringing you the days biggest stories with clarity, depth and context.
No Kashmir Maange Azadi slogans in Bengal: CM
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HC interim protection for Sreelekha
Panihati municipality ex-chairman arrested from Bengaluru
Kolkata sees relief after heavy rain; light showers forecast
Kolkata Survey Reveals Strong Public Support for Animal Welfare Initiatives
Calcutta High Court Orders State to Pay Rs 5 Lakh for Eye Surgery Negligence
4, including encounter dead, on Baruipur charge sheet
TMC MP seeks security in letter to Shah
