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19 Aug

Kolkata Hotel Blaze Leaves Nine Dead, 28 Guests Rescued in Midnight Operation

Rajeev Sharma0 CommentsIndia, TrendingKolkata

Kolkata (Rajeev Sharma): A pre-dawn fire at a hotel on Kolkata’s Free School Street claimed nine lives on Tuesday, with a child among those who died. Six people were also injured in the incident, which unfolded while most of the hotel’s occupants were asleep. The fire broke out at Hotel Taiba at around 2 am, triggering panic among guests as smoke rapidly filled the premises. With visibility severely affected, rescue personnel began an emergency evacuation to reach those trapped inside the building. According to police, 28 people were brought out safely and subsequently shifted to different hospitals in Kolkata. Several…

13 Aug

Nurse Found Dead Inside Washroom at NRS Medical College in Kolkata

Gurpreet Singh0 CommentsIndiaCrime Investigation, Health department, Kolkata, NRS Medical College, Nurse Death, Post Mortem

Kolkata (Gurpreet Singh): Police have launched an investigation after a 30-year-old nurse was found dead inside a staff washroom at the state-run NRS Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on Thursday morning. The incident, which occurred during her night shift in the hospital’s high-dependency unit, has prompted both law enforcement and the state health department to initiate parallel probes to ascertain the exact cause of death. According to preliminary police reports, the nurse reported for duty around 8:00 PM on Wednesday and went to the washroom in the Gynaecology Department building around 10:30 PM. When she failed to return, her…

09 Jun

CID Searches TMC Headquarters Amid Forged Signature Row, Deepening Party Crisis

Gurpreet Singh0 CommentsIndiaAbhishek Banerjee, CID, Forged Signatures Case, Kalighat, Kolkata, Mamata Banerjee, TMC, West Bengal politics

Kolkata (Gurpreet Singh): The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Tuesday entered the Trinamool Congress (TMC) headquarters-cum-residence of party supremo Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata's Kalighat area as part of its investigation into the alleged forging of signatures of party MLAs, a controversy that has plunged the ruling party into its most serious internal crisis since its formation.The CID team, accompanied by personnel from Kalighat Police Station and a large contingent of women police officers, arrived at the party's central office at 30B Harish Chatterjee Street during the afternoon. Their arrival initially led to a brief standoff with security personnel and party…

19 Mar

JFK Assassination Files Reveal CIA’s Secret Bases in India

Rajeev Sharma0 CommentsIndiaCIA secret bases, JFK assassination files, Kolkata, New Delhi

New Delhi, March 19, 2025 – Recently declassified files related to the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy in 1963 have revealed the existence of CIA-operated secret bases in two of India's major cities—New Delhi and Kolkata—during the Cold War era. The files, released by the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), have shed new light on the covert operations of the CIA in South Asia.The revelation came to light after Russian-backed international news outlet RT shared details of the documents on social media platform X. The files confirm that the CIA maintained “black sites” in New Delhi…