Supreme Court collegium recommends names for judgeship in six High Courts

Supreme Court collegium recommends names for judgeship in six High Courts

Supreme Court collegium has recommended the appointment of several advocates and judicial officers for judgeship in six different high courts, including of Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta and Karnataka. File | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The Supreme Court collegium has recommended the appointment of several advocates and judicial officers for judgeship in six different high courts, … Read more

Put union rooms under lock and key: Calcutta HC directs Bengal govt. after Kolkata law college gang rape case

Put union rooms under lock and key: Calcutta HC directs Bengal govt. after Kolkata law college gang rape case

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday (July 3, 2025) directed the West Bengal government to put union rooms in colleges and universities where there is no recognised student body or no election had taken place in the recent past under lock and key. | Photo Credit: DEBASISH BHADURI The Calcutta High Court on Thursday (July … Read more

Supreme Court halves cost imposed on Narcotics Control Bureau by Calcutta High Court

Supreme Court halves cost imposed on Narcotics Control Bureau by Calcutta High Court

The NCB was directed to recover the cost from its personnel involved in the process of drafting and filing the government appeal. File | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The Supreme Court on Thursday (July 3, 2025) refused to intervene with an order directing the Narcotic Control Bureau (NCB) to pay ₹1 lakh cost in … Read more

Calcutta University scholars travel to Sundarbans village to save language

Calcutta University scholars travel to Sundarbans village to save language

Calcutta University scholars interacting with Sadri community | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A group of scholars from the University of Calcutta recently visited a village in the Sundarbans in a bid to save a language that is on the verge of extinction. They went to a settlement called Kamarpara in Gosaba subdivision of South 24 … Read more

Calcutta HC rejects West Bengal govt.’s appeal for death penalty in R.G. Kar rape-murder case, admits CBI’s plea

Calcutta HC rejects West Bengal govt.’s appeal for death penalty in R.G. Kar rape-murder case, admits CBI’s plea

Taking to the streets: Protesters take out a rally demanding justice for the victim in the R.G. Kar rape-murder case in Kolkata. | Photo Credit: File Photo The Calcutta High Court on Friday rejected an appeal filed by the West Bengal government seeking the enhancement of the life sentence to death penalty for Sanjay Roy, … Read more

The just launched Estée Lauder X Sabyasachi collaboration features 10 matte lipsticks in gilded cases

The just launched Estée Lauder X Sabyasachi collaboration features 10 matte lipsticks in gilded cases

For the Estée Lauder X Sabyasachi collaboration, the couturier curated the shades by drawing on individual threads from his aesthetic At first, it looks like a piece of jewellery. A gilded case with 24K gold-plated accents and the Bengal tiger embossed on top. Is it a pendant, a charm perhaps? Neither; what it is, is actually … Read more

Maternity benefits | Differentiation not permissible between regular, contractual employees: Calcutta High Court

Maternity benefits | Differentiation not permissible between regular, contractual employees: Calcutta High Court

A view of the Calcutta High Court. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Observing that no differentiation is permissible between regular and contractual employees on the question of a woman’s right to childbirth and maternity leave, the Calcutta High Court has directed the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to compensate an executive intern. The petitioner, … Read more

Sandeshkhali murder case 2019 | Calcutta High Court stays proceedings before trial court

Sandeshkhali murder case 2019 | Calcutta High Court stays proceedings before trial court

A view of the Calcutta High Court. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Calcutta High Court on January 17 stayed proceedings before a trial court in the murder of two persons and abduction of another at Sandeshkhali in 2019, in which Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Shajahan Sheikh was named the main accused by the … Read more

Gauri Khan shares designs secrets from her latest project, the Falguni Shane Peacock store in Kolkata 

Gauri Khan shares designs secrets from her latest project, the Falguni Shane Peacock store in Kolkata 

Gauri Khan (centre) with Shane and Falguni | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement For Gauri Khan, the little details matter. Which is probably why, two white urns, with 3D peacock motifs, are the source of much discussion at the Falguni Shane Peacock showroom in Kolkata. Gauri who has done the interiors for three of the FSP … Read more

Calcutta High Court wonders why Visva-Bharati Vice-Chancellor is still in office

Calcutta High Court wonders why Visva-Bharati Vice-Chancellor is still in office

A view of the Calcutta High Court in Kolkata. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Calcutta High Court’s strong rebuke of Visva-Bharati Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty, with the judge saying that he should be removed for getting his own professor out of an international science project last year, has given fodder to his detractors who … Read more