Saikat Ray

1 week ago | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Srishti Lakhotia |Subrata Chattoraj |Saikat Ray

NewsCity Newskolkata NewsKolkata HC pulls up KMC for demolition drive without prior noticeTrendingKolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has temporarily halted the demolition of LMNOQ Sky Bar, following Calcutta High Court's directives. The court is reviewing the legality of KMC's actions, particularly the absence of a formal demolition notice.

2 weeks ago | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Saikat Ray |Dwaipayan Ghosh

Kolkata: A 44-year-old sergeant, Pranab Mondal, posted with the Howrah Bridge Traffic Guard, registered an FIR against Vijay Ojha, the BJP councillor from Ward 23 in Posta, for allegedly abusing and assaulting him,while he was making arrangements for a procession in the Posta area on April 24.

1 month ago | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Saikat Ray |Subhro Niyogi

NewsCity Newskolkata NewsBikramgarh Jheel restoration & clean-up in Kolkata resume after 5 yearsTrendingKolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has resumed work to clean and restore the Bikramgarh Jheel after a gap of more than five years. It is the second-largest water body in south Kolkata after Rabindra Sarobar.

Jan 30, 2025 | science.org | Saikat Ray |Andrew Liu |Jonas Koeppel |Raphael Ferreira

Editor’s summaryTo date, our ability to functionally interrogate the consequences of structural variation in the human genome has been stymied by our inability to efficiently engineer one or many structural variants to study. Koeppel et al. and Pinglay et al. developed SCRaMbLE and Genome-Shuffle-seq, respectively, enabling the multiplex generation of thousands of structural variants in human and mouse genomes in a single experiment (see the Perspective by Seczynska and Steinmetz).