The Kolkata Police have busted a trafficking racket by raiding the premises of a building used as a brothel in the southern outskirts of the city. A teenager who was lured to Delhi from Andhra Pradesh on the pretext of a job around two years ago was first sexually abused in Rohini and then sold off to a brothel on GB Road by a couple, where she was repeatedly raped over the past few months.
Metro Railway fares will be revised from December 5, nearly six years after such a step was last taken. While minimum and maximum fares will remain the same, passengers will have to pay more once they travel more than two km. A circle officer and a senior administrative official might be suspended in the ongoing case on Meerut brothels where administration had submitted a false affidavit claiming that there is no brothel in Meerut. The road cave-in on APC Roy Road near Jagat Cinema that has been causing a major traffic chaos on the stretch for the past five days could have had bare minimum effect on commute had some civic sewerage department officials taken precaution before taking up a restoration work.
Enough of grand alliance in politics. Why can't citizens make a grand-alliance against pollution and environmental degradations? Calcutta University on Wednesday informed the Calcutta high court that it has already introduced the thirdgender option in its MPhil admission form. A call by a Burrabazar woman constable pretending to be a suspect's wife on Wednesday helped police crack a Rs 4lakh theft case.
A year-old businessman was found dead outside his home at Chakraberia in the Bhowanipore area early on Wednesday. Bangladesh cricketer Saif Hassan had to pay a penalty of Rs 21, before being allowed to fly home on Wednesday evening.
A year-old mother of an seven-year-old girl, employed at an electronics store in south Kolkata, has lodged a complaint at the Netaji Nagar police station that she has been stalked by a youth, reportedly a government employee, for the past three and a half months. Two dead storks and fish found in Rabindra Sarobar on Monday have raised doubts on whether the Lake has managed to recover from the Chhath onslaught a few weeks back.
