It is alleged that one portion of the Heritage Building has been renovated. The matter has reached the Calcutta High Court where the Court has directed the West Bengal government not to tamper with the structure of the Heritage Building.

Kolkata Jan 28 PTI Two persons were arrested from Jamtara in Jharkhand for their alleged involvement in siphoning off over Rs 35 lakh from the bank account of a professor of Rabindra Bharati University a senior police official said on Friday Acting on the complaint of the professor lodged with Shakespeare Sarani police station on January 13 police conducted a probe and found the two to be allegedly involved in the cyber crime he said The accused persons contacted the complainant over phone and managed to procure the confidential information of her bank accounts and siphoned off Rs 360 lakh using mobile banking he said Withdrawal of Rs 240 lakh by them could be blocked the official said Police found that the money was transferred from the complainants account using a payment gateway Subsequently the money was transferred to different bank accounts Investigation revealed that a good portion of the defrauded amount was transferred to the bank account of one of the two accused persons He had withdrawn some money and handed it over to the other accused he said Both were sent to police custody till February 8 when produced before a city court on Friday PTI SCH KK KK KK

Kolkata Nov 27 PTI The air quality ambience across the city ranged from poor to very poor on Saturday a pollution control board official said He attributed it to the smog phenomenon typical of the wintry conditions at this time of the year The air quality level ranged from moderate to poor in the city for the past one week he said However on Saturday the air quality index at Rabindra Bharati University air monitoring station in North Kolkata read 312 PM 25 at 1 pm which is in very poor category in environmental parlance the official said Such air quality conditions have the potential to cause serious breathing problem for COPD patients living in the neighborhood of BT Road Cossipore Sinthi North Dumdum Paikpara areas particularly those afflicted by Covid-19 virus green crusader and environmentalist S M Ghosh said The air quality index AQI had ranged between 270 to 320 at Rabindra Bharati air monitoring station this November he said In rest of the city AQI was poor in the southern parts as well reading 245 at Ballygunje air monitoring station and 224 at Jadavpur on Saturday at 1 pm the WBPCB official said Poor means breathing difficulties but not as severe as very poor In Rabindra Sarobar Victoria Memorial and Bidhannagar areas the first two pockets having large green cover and the last one a satellite township the air quality was moderate indicating the situation may not be as grim as in other parts but neither satisfactory as well In Rabindra Sarobar the AQI was 147 in Victoria Memorial area it was 145 and in Bidhannagar 180 less than 21 points of poor category Last week AQI ranged from 150 to 250 across the city except Rabindra Bharati University the official said As the subtle particulates hanging in air caused by vehicular emission and other commercial activities refuse to go away due to foggy conditions in this season the air quality index takes a dip in winter The pcb is taking steps like banning smoke belching vehicles in Kolkata and Howrah banning coal-based oven in road stalls and spraying water in construction sites to check the menace he said PTI SUS RG RG