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Drunk woman driver let off; cops under fire

10-04-2021 14:50 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

The state transport department has asked the police commissionerate to probe a traffic-related offence in which a woman was let off with Rs 500 fine after she was caught driving under the influence of alcohol near AG Square in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday night.

Polls: Bengal violence spirals ahead of phase 4

10-04-2021 04:25 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Spiralling violence and tension was reported from several parts of Bengal, including Howrah and Cooch Behar, that go to polls in the fourth phase on Saturday.

EC sends 2nd notice to Mamata for ‘restrain CAPF’ speech

10-04-2021 04:25 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

The Election Commission has issued a second notice to Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, this one for her comments asking voters — particularly women — to “restrain” central forces if the latter “create disturbances”.

Battle for WB’s soul enters urban heartland

10-04-2021 04:25 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

When a large swathe of urban and semi-urban south Bengal — representing the Trinamool’s core support base — goes to vote on Saturday, something more than party loyalties will be tested. Also on test will be how much Bengal’s upper- and middle-class bhadralok population has warmed to a party that, till even two years ago, was considered somewhat alien in most Bengali homes.

WB: Hospitals stare at Covid bed shortage

10-04-2021 04:10 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Even as Kolkata recorded 987 fresh cases on Friday — the highest single-day spike during the second wave that surpassed the maximum recorded during the first wave — Covid beds filled up fast in hospitals across the city with nearly all critical care beds now being occupied.

Kolkata hosps start to ration jabs as stocks dwindle

10-04-2021 04:10 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Bengal vaccinated a shade less than 8 lakh people over the last three days, but several Kolkata hospitals started rationing their doses from Friday over fears that their vaccine stocks would completely run dry by Sunday.

Conman dupes NRI of Rs 4.8 cr; arrested

09-04-2021 12:36 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

The accused was identified as Alaga Muthu Shankar, who owns a mining firm at Jeypore in Koraput district. Shankar originally belonged to Kerala. The EOW action followed a complaint lodged by the duped NRI, Jagannath Rao Doddamani of Karnataka. Rao works as a senior research staff in a leading electronics company in South Korea.

Parties get set for a rare 3-way race in Jadavpur

09-04-2021 08:47 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Jadavpur is one of the assembly constituencies in and around Kolkata where the fate of Trinamool Congress will largely depend on the ‘performance’ of the BJP. However, there is a lurking danger, feels a section of the Trinamool poll veterans.

Pvt facilities plan to start office vax next week

09-04-2021 06:20 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Several private hospitals have firmed up plans to start vaccination at workplaces from Monday. Most said they are planning to begin with a few and gradually include more corporate offices, depending on resources and demand.

Assam: No lockdown or night curfew, says min

08-04-2021 14:51 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday ruled out any possibility of imposition of lockdown or night curfew in the state in view of spiralling Covid-19 cases in other parts of the country.

Odisha logs highest one-day spike in 2021

08-04-2021 12:52 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

The Covid-19 tally in Odisha mounted to 3,45,526 on Thursday, as 879 more people tested positive for the infection, the highest single-day rise this year, a health department official said.

Adhir Chowdhury keeps post-poll options open

08-04-2021 08:00 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Bengal Congress president Adhir Chowdhury has refused to shut out the “possibility” of a post-poll tie-up between the Congress-Left Front-Indian Secular Front Sanjukta Morcha bloc and the Trinamool Congress.

New Town gets 100 e-bikes on World Health Day

08-04-2021 06:02 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

World Health Day was observed in New Town on Wednesday where 100 e-bikes were introduced as part of the ongoing public cycle sharing scheme that is operating in New Town. The e-bikes will be operated by an app aggregator firm adding to the existing fleet of 100 app-based cycles that were reintroduced in the township last year.

KMC, NKDA plan reopening of safe homes

08-04-2021 06:00 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is gearing up to reopen some of major safe homes in Kolkata predicting a surge in number of Covid-19 patients who might have mild or no symptoms. Primarily, the civic authorities have planned to reclaim three floors of a multi-storey building at Anandapur off EM Bypass. While two of the three floors could be converted into a 400-bed safe home, the third floor would be reserved for doctors and paramedics. Last July, the KMC had opened its first safe home he

Jadavpur University ties up with hosp for staff vax

08-04-2021 06:00 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Jadavpur University has arranged for its teaching and non-teaching staff to get vaccinated for Covid at M R Bangur Hospital from Thursday. The hospital will make arrangements for the drive on the hostel premises in the second half every day. Initially, only 50 to 60 people will be vaccinated daily, which can be increased depending on the registration.

Four ex-European colonies on poll dance

08-04-2021 05:52 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

When residents of “mini-Europe” in the heart of Bengal cast their vote on Saturday, their political representatives will have their task cut out: Working harder for the cultural and commercial revival of the vibrant past of these former European outposts.

Vaccination drive takes off at Kolkata airport

08-04-2021 05:36 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Covid vaccination drive for all 45-plus airport and airline employees began at the Kolkata airport on Wednesday. Officials said the drive will continue for the next few weeks till all employees receive the two shots.

TMC worker assaulted for not chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’

08-04-2021 05:36 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

A 36-year-old Trinamool Congress worker who had refused to chant “Jai Shri Ram” suffered multiple fractures in an attack by suspected BJP supporters at Haroa in Bengal’s North 24-Parganas late on Tuesday. A BJP supporter was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the assault on Sheikh Akhtar Ali.

Hospitals, cos race to set up office jab centres

08-04-2021 05:21 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

With the Centre allowing vaccination at workplaces from Sunday, city hospitals have started preparatory work while they wait for a go-ahead from the state health department. Many are hopeful of launching workplace vaccination centres by next week.

Covid protocol back as 2nd wave lashes Bengal

08-04-2021 05:21 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

With the second wave underway and the number of fresh cases spiking rapidly, health officials are putting in a number of plans to counter the recent surge. To begin with, the state health department has reissued the Covid Patient Management System (CPMS) that it had released to hospitals and nursing homes last July during the first wave to dispel complaints of confusion and poor patient care.

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Assam: Daily Covid cases more than double

07-04-2021 20:03 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

The daily cases of Covid in Assam more than doubled on Wednesday with 195 testing positive. The figure on Tuesday was 92. The health department, though, says there is no cause for alarm as the total positivity rate is 0.92%.

Patnaik emphasises on port-led development

07-04-2021 19:29 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday underlined Odisha’s strategic advantage of long coastline and emphasized on port-led development through industrialization and connectivity as he chaired the first meeting the of state Sagarmala committee.

Lotus in bloom, good news for Muslim farmers

07-04-2021 08:14 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

In Howrah, the flower growing belt of Bagnan-Uluberia-Kulgachhia in rural Howrah, which went to polls on Tuesday, has reported a good lotus harvest this season. The large water bodies in the area are covered with the green leaves of the lotus plant and the flower has even started blooming. Howrah is predominantly Muslim and most people are associated with flower farming.

Missing BJP supporter found dead in Dubrajpur

07-04-2021 08:00 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

A missing BJP supporter was found dead on Tuesday in Dubrajpur of Birbhum district, leaving the region tense amid an exchange of accusations by BJP and Trinamool Congress.

‘Stretched poll schedule adding to virus worries’

07-04-2021 06:47 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

The long-drawn election process in Bengal has added to the Covid-19 threat to the state that is witnessing a rapid rise, claim doctors. Health experts said that political rallies, meetings and other gatherings where there is no adherence to Covid-19 protocol have contributed to the massive spike in infection. While polling in other states ended on Tuesday, Bengal, where elections are being held in eight phases, will have to wait for another three weeks for the elections to get over.

Hosps to set up vax centres at gated complexes

07-04-2021 06:12 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Private hospitals in Kolkata have started approaching corporates and housing complexes to set up ‘off-site’ vaccination centres at these places to inoculate professionals and residents. The move follows a prod from Swasthya Bhavan, which asked hospitals to take proactive measures to step up the number of vaccinations. At least three private hospitals on Tuesday lined up more than a dozen corporates and complexes who have agreed to join the initiative. The off-site centres will start

Multiple attacks on TMC Arambag candidate

07-04-2021 05:21 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Hit on the head with a bamboo pole, smacked on her shoulders and back with bricks, kicked and pushed into a paddy field — this summarizes TMC’s Arambag candidate Sujata Mondal Khan’s poll day experience on Tuesday. But that was not enough to deter the 34-year-old candidate, who kept on visiting one sensitive booth after another in the interiors of Arambag even as purported BJP workers kept attacking her through the day. The windshield of her car was also damaged.

Bengal breaches 2k-a-day mark 1st time this yr

07-04-2021 05:21 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

The Covid-19 case count in Bengal this year shows the infection rate has doubled since last year. While it took two months for the number to increase 10 times last year, this year, it has happened in a month. As elections in Kolkata and neighbouring North 24 Parganas — the worst-affected districts — draw near, health experts fear a sharper spike in the next two to three weeks.

AIMIM to fight from only 7 seats in Bengal

07-04-2021 05:21 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Contrary to the expectations that it will foray into West Bengal assembly elections in a big way and field its candidates in about 40 to 50 seats, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has decided to contest in only seven assembly constituencies.

'PM Modi has surpassed even Donald Trump'

07-04-2021 05:05 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday accused the Centre of “running the polls with goons and guns”. And PM Narendra Modi has even surpassed Donald Trump while doing that, Banerjee said at an election rally in Cooch Behar’s Mathabhanga.

Axe on officials after EVMs found in TMC leader’s home

07-04-2021 05:05 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

The election commission on Tuesday suspended three poll officials and a policeman and removed three home guards after three EVMs and four VVPATs were recovered from the home of a Trinamool Congress functionary in Uluberia North in Howrah, hours before it went to the polls.

Bizman mortgages submerged plots for loan

06-04-2021 14:52 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Odisha Crime Branch on Tuesday arrested a Bhubaneswar-based businessman for allegedly defrauding IDBI bank of nearly Rs 4.8 crore by mortgaging four submerged plots to avail Rs 80 lakh loan in 2009.

'BJP worker's mother killed by TMC in Goghat'

06-04-2021 09:26 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Former governor of Tripura and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Tathagata Roy on Tuesday claimed that a BJP worker's mother was killed allegedly by "TMC goons" in Goghat in Hooghly district of the poll-bound West Bengal.

'Will win Bengal on one leg, Delhi on two'

06-04-2021 07:51 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday charged the Indian Secular Front of “taking money from the BJP” and “help from Hyderabad” in a replication of the Bihar and Uttar Pradesh model to split minority votes in this state.

TMC goes all out to recover lost ground

06-04-2021 07:51 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Bengal polls are treading into the most difficult terrain when a couple of violence-prone rural seats on either sides of the Damodar river — Arambag, Goghat and Khanakul in Hooghly and Udaynarayanpur and Amta in Howrah — got to the polls on Tuesday.

Kerala: ASD voters’ details to be stored digitally

06-04-2021 06:48 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

The Election commission (EC) will run a parallel system involving newly-developed mobile application and an integrated WhatsApp-based platform to digitally store photographs and details of absent-shifted-dead (ASD) voters in the assembly polls to be held on Tuesday. The dual system is being used as per the directions of the high court which recently directed that photographs of all ASD voters identified shall be taken in the polling booths.

Conman held for extortion attempt on Kolkata judge

06-04-2021 06:46 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

A joint team of Kolkata Police STF and the Hare Street police has nabbed a person for allegedly using a free-to-download app — that helped him to use another person’s number as his own — to threaten a judge of a court in Kolkata. The cops said that the accused had posed as an app-biker and demanded Rs 500 from the judge without realizing whom he was calling. The accused — Arnab Acharya — has been remanded to police custody till April 9 by a local court.

Covid wave: 50-60 age group may be at higher risk

06-04-2021 06:00 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

A 53-year-old businessman from the southern fringes of the city is currently admitted in a private hospital’s critical care wing with severe Covid-19 infection. Another 49-year-old north Kolkata resident is being treated in the ICU of a government Covid-19 facility. These are not just two isolated cases. Amidst the sharp surge in Covid-19 cases, the aver-age age of infected patients is coming down from what the hospitals had witnessed during the first wave. Many of them are needing critica

Where realty plays a key election role

06-04-2021 04:24 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

High-rise complexes replacing tiled roof huts, shopping malls coming up on farmlands and electric buses replacing cycle vans and motor vans — large parts of South 24 Parganas’ Bishnupur on both sides of Diamond Harbour Road is fast shedding its rural tag and catching up with city life as the vote seekers struggle to adapt themselves to the aspirations and changing demography at this part of the district bordering Kolkata.

Porn case: 5 charged with gang rape, trafficking

06-04-2021 04:24 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

The move came hours after TOI reported on how an aspiring actor was duped with the promise of a key role for a project to be launched on a leading OTT platform and her video was later found on a porn website. The court slapped the charges on the accused, accepting the prayer of the police.

KMDA starts 60-year-old Kalighat bridge repairs

06-04-2021 04:24 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) has started repair work of Kalighat Setu. The authorities have also asked its consultants to suggest as to which flyovers and bridges need the sensors fixed to constantly monitor deviations in their traffic load bearing capacity.

In 2021, Baruipur votes to tide over 2020

06-04-2021 04:24 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

At Baruipur in South 24 Parganas that will go to polls on Tuesday, everyone has a tale to share. The Covid-induced lockdown and Amphan have left a mark in the district. From a software professional at Baruipur town, who is finding it difficult to pay his EMIs after a pay cut, to the litchi and guava farmers of Sikharbali in rural Baruipur, whose produce took a huge beating due to Amphan last year, everyone wants to forget 2020. Even, firecracker traders of Champahati faced the heat after the ban

'Infected after 1st jab? You may not need 2nd shot'

06-04-2021 04:09 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

If you have got Covid after receiving the first dose of the vaccine — much before the second dose is due — you might not require the second dose after all. This is what a number of doctors in the city have started advising patients. The reason: the first dose, coupled with the viral infection, could have created enough antibodies.

Assam: Registration of HCWs, FLWs stopped

05-04-2021 18:48 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Based on Centre's instruction to states, Assam health and family welfare department on Monday wrote to districts to immediately discontinue new registration of healthcare workers (HCW) and front line workers (FLW) for Covid-19 vaccination, after giving ample chance to get them inoculated since January.

Pipili bypoll: Rs 50 lakh cash seized from 2

05-04-2021 17:38 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Puri district police on Monday seized Rs 50 lakh unaccounted cash from two persons in Pipili constituency that would go to by-poll on April 17. Ruling BJD alleged the money belonged to the BJP.

WB polls: Diamond Harbour set for prestige fight

04-04-2021 10:33 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

On a campaign trail, 70-year-old Pannalal Haldar of Trinamool Congress decided to take a break around 11.30am on Saturday. He had been out since 8.30am in what was to be the weekend finale before elections here. He had started out from Dolonghata, about two kilometres from the banks of the Hooghly, an area locals said the BJP might have an edge.

WB: Blood donation hit by Covid, heat, polls

04-04-2021 08:40 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Aloke Mitra, a resident of College Street and an employee at a private firm, had a harrowing night on Wednesday when he was refused by four blood banks. He finally paid a premium at a private facility to get three units of blood needed for his sister.

Kol: 1st Durga idol this year ready to set sail

04-04-2021 08:40 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

The first idol from Kumartuli is ready to sail, and on time, too. Last year, hit by lockdown and the pandemic, idols could not be exported till June and July.

Case surge rekindles lockdown fears for hotels

04-04-2021 08:40 via timesofindia.indiatimes.com

The three-layered impact of Covid scare following second wave of the virus, financial year-ending and elections, has led to a major drop in sales for restaurants in the last fortnight while the hotels too have witnessed a slump in room occupancy. All eyes are now on the Poila Baisakh for recovery. There are some exceptions among restaurants and hotels which continue to enjoy good businesses even in the past 10 days.