r/kolkata

2 promises fulfilled within 2 weeks, Kudos to the WB govt.

আমারও খুব জোরে প্রেম পাচ্ছে, কিন্তু কেউ নেই 🥺👍

The BJP on Wednesday released a list of several properties it alleged are linked to Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee, intensifying the ongoing political row in West Bengal over alleged property irregularities. The development comes amid scrutiny surrounding properties allegedly associated with the TMC national general secretary, who is also the nephew of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

Ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Abhishek Banerjee had declared assets worth Rs 2.3 crore in movable property, liabilities of Rs 36 lakh, and an annual income of Rs 1.4 crore for FY2023 in his affidavit submitted to the Election Commission. His declared investments included bank deposits, life insurance policies and other movable assets.

Source: https://www.timesnownews.com/kolkata/abhishek-banerjee-property-row-bjp-releases-list-of-properties-article-154358334

This shi**y a// barricades completely useless, why the hell the government can't just replace it by planting trees?? It's not like they don't have money & resources to do that,

They don't wanna do that.

Also before anyone comes here in my comment section yelling "Etodin choti toh chilo tokhon kano boloni??" Tokhono ami bolechilam...ekhono bolbo.. ei notun guloke mala poriye thakur ghore rakhar jonne niye asa hoyni....era service worker, public service demand kortei pare ar korbe.

The previous government failed us, so everyone brought this new one?.. for development right? Why can't this be one of the first "changes" towards development then??

Hold the government accountable while you still have time, the last one was kicked out for a reason, the people don't want to suffer anymore so hold the government accountable, ask for real change, don't go bringing hundreds of written policy, demand for ground work.

Gorom sobari lage...rastay duto gach lagale mohamari hoye jabena..tomader benefit er jonnei bolchi..baki ta bujhe niyo

Also keu amake kono political party er daag lagate asle CJP 🪳 bolben please

Yesterday, May 19 2026, I visited Lenskart Jora Bridge Santoshpur branch with my mom to purchase specs for her. Upon reaching, we couldn’t find any suitable specs for her (we were searching for a rimless spec in fiber or plastic band, not in a metal band, as she has allergy issues with metals).
Just when we were about to leave, a male executive called me near him in a very fishy manner, pointing out beside him. As I went and my mother stood beside me, the guy started opening something in his tablet. As the front cam opened, I stepped aside as I don’t want my picture taken for any reason. I asked my mother to stand there and give a picture of her instead (we could simply avoid and leave but at that time I didn’t think much). She stood there, he got a picture of her and asked for specifically my number. I didn’t give my number, but we gave my mother’s number. As he entered my mother’s number, her already existing Lenskart account appeared on his tablet. Things were not a big problem till now. But then he started harassing us, asking for specifically my number, and said we can’t have a picture of one person and a number of another person — it has to belong to the same person, etc., where the number and the picture both belonged to my mother and even her Lenskart account was shown on their tablet. Why he pushed me to share my number, I don’t understand till now.
So I asked him what the purpose of it was, as a customer I never had to do this. I bought a lot of Lenskart specs and visited the same branch before, never having to share a contact number and picture just for entering the shop. I asked, “Is it something new because I never had to do this before?” The guy aggressively replied, “No, it’s nothing new, it has been happening since forever.” So I asked, “What is this for?” He said, “So that we can suggest you better fitted specs, it’s our rule, we do it, do you understand now??” I obviously did not understand this useless purpose as we were leaving, and then he called me for this, wasting my time. If it were true, they could have done that process exactly when we entered, not when we were leaving. So I said, “No, I didn’t understand, please elaborate.” By then, another customer also tried to intervene to help and said, “As a customer she has all the right to ask you and you must answer,” as she witnessed the whole drama. By this time, the situation got heated up as he was denying to give a proper answer and just pushing for my number. And I was getting angry at this useless executive’s intimidating behaviour. So I asked, “Tell me what is the purpose of taking this picture and the number, which we already provided, and you’re still pushing to share MY number?”
He did not give me a proper answer and continued to say exactly the same things he was saying — “When a customer enters we take this for our data and bla bla.” We were not approached for this when we entered. HE APPROACHED FOR THIS WHEN WE WERE ABOUT TO LEAVE.
Anyway, there was no conclusion, our time and energy got wasted, and we left. As we were leaving, I told him I’ll surely look into it.
Within the next 5 minutes, my mother received a WhatsApp message saying — “Hi! Thank you for your purchase! Please reach out to the nearest executive to pick up your order.”
Are you kidding?
This message literally opened my eyes. Okay, so this guy was just trying to fake a sale by harassing customers. WE DID NOT PURCHASE ANYTHING — FOR YOUR CLARITY, AS MENTIONED AT FIRST. So what was this message for??
These sales executives are maybe so pressured to perform and get sales that they try to do all these kinds of tricks to meet their basic sales goal. Maybe just to get his basic salary, he needs to get a certain number of sales done, and to meet that goal, these poor executives scam, harass, and collect data from customers. And most of the time, this is how they lose their already existing customers and the company itself suffers. And the cycle goes on — a constant cycle of pressure to commit fraud: companies pressuring employees, and then employees scamming customers, and then companies losing customers.
Now I really feel pity for this guy whose picture I am attaching. Maybe he is a victim of toxic work culture in India.
BUT HE GOT ONE NUMBER (my mother’s) TO SHOW A FAKE SALE — THEN WHY DID HE PUSH TO SHARE MY NUMBER?? That’s really creepy.
Lenskart, look into it, or else I will have to take other steps.

৭ দিন! হ্যাঁ, মাত্র ৭ দিনের মধ্যেই ম্যাজিক দেখিয়ে দিলেন মুখ্যমন্ত্রী শুভেন্দু অধিকারী।

ক্ষমতায় বসার কয়েক সপ্তাহের মধ্যে বুঝিয়ে দিলেন আসল 'মুখ্যমন্ত্রী' কাকে বলে! রাজ্যকে বদলে দেওয়ার এই ১৫টি ঐতিহাসিক সিদ্ধান্তই তার প্রমাণ।

Just a wild thought: now that the Kolkata Police have lodged an FIR against Aroop Biswas over the Messi fiasco, would they reach out to Lionel Messi to hear his version of the story? And maybe Messi would agree to visit the Kolkata High Court to testify against Aroop 🤣

It would be even better if he also filed a defamation suit against Aroop for 100 million dollars 😆

I just finished watching it. The story itself is incredible, and the ending had so much potential to be exceptional, but Parambrata’s execution completely fell short. Why does Hoichoi keep wasting brilliant material written by Avik Sarkar? We saw this exact same issue happen with Bhog.

They seem locked into this rigid pattern of pushing out 6-episode seasons with 30-minute episodes, which is a massive creative limitation—something Rupam-da and Arpita-da talk about all the time. It is honestly tragic. Bengali literature has such an incredibly rich treasury of content, yet we constantly fail to adapt it properly or present it effectively to a pan-India audience, especially when you look at how brilliantly Malayalam cinema is executing their storytelling right now wih so low budjet

This is unbelievable.
By the looks of it INR will touch hundred by this sunday.
how effed are we , seriously ?

Massive Inr depreciation: INR now at 97.07