Ganesh Chandra

A 52-year-old constable of Kolkata police died due to Covid on Thursday, the third policeman to die in as many days and fifth in the second wave. All five were among 5% of the force that are yet to receive both doses as their vaccination had been delayed due to ill health. The latest victim is ganesh chandra Dey, posted with the 8th battalion of Kolkata Police.

The state fire services department has sent a notice to the owners of Moon House — the eight-storey building on ganesh chandra Avenue — that had caught fire on Friday night, leading to the death of two persons, including a 12-year-old boy, to submit the details of fire safety measures at the building.

Two people were arrested with 50,000 rupees (about $750) in cash from ganesh chandra Avenue on Wednesday. The suspects are Rajesh Mallick, 40, and Amit Kumar Dey, 31.

Bidhannagar detective department has arrested a hundi trader in connection with online frauds carried out through BPO units.

A five-member CBI team conducted searches for five hours at the Jodhpur Park residence of city-based chartered accountant and also reached his office at ganesh chandra Avenue on Tuesday as part of a probe into the operations of a Ponzi firm.

Mountaineer ganesh chandra Jena, who scaled Mt Everest on May 18, 2011, and participated in 42-km adventurous marathon from Everest base camp to Namche Bazaar in Nepal earlier this year, is forced to delay his next Himalayan expedition due to shortage of funds.

An unidentified criminal shot at a building construction department contractor when he resisted the snatching of a costly gold chain from his elder brother’s wife outside their residence at Punaichak under Shastri Nagar police station area in Patna on Saturday morning.

The No Helmet No Petrol campaign has died a premature death similar to the thousands of lives that are lost on the roads every year and which the initiative was precisely designed to prevent.

Even when several businesses are finding it challenging to operate during the pandemic and battle uncertainties caused by restrictions every few months when cases surge, several new singing bars have opened in the Chandni-Esplanade area and many existing ones have expanded.

The late-night fire at a mixed residential building on ganesh chandra Avenue left two residents — a 12-year-old boy and a 65-year-old woman — dead and five others injured. The fire raged for over five hours before it could be brought under control in the early hours of Saturday by 14 fire tenders and 150-odd firemen.

The central business district, which had been lying deserted since the start of the lockdown, witnessed some activity on Tuesday. Many shops selling mobiles, consumer durables and electrical goods upped their shutters on Tuesday morning after the state government allowed opening of such shops outside containment zones.

A city-based jeweller has lodged a complaint with police alleging that a goldsmith, who was entrusted with a job to make jewellery items, escaped with ₹1. 4 crore worth gold and diamonds. Based on the complaint, Narayanguda police registered a theft case against the accused and launched a manhunt to nab him.

Two incidents of subsidence within six months at the East West Metro site in Bowbazar have increased demand for hotel rooms in central Kolkata, where displaced families have been staying long-term.

A young employee of a central Kolkata bar was shot at for refusing drinks to three youths shortly after midnight on Saturday.

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A jawan allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with a rifle after an altercation with his seniors in Rajouri district, official sources said on Sunday.

Attempts to enforce a dress code for women teachers and students in educational institutions in Bengal reached a new low on Tuesday when a teacher at a Howrah school assaulted a female colleague for not wearing a sari.