Kolkata: City private hospitals saw a minor surge as patients started trickling in to seek treatment under Ayushman Bharat a day after the scheme was rolled out in the state on Sunday, even as technical glitches and online verification slowed down their admission process. Insurance and help desks set up to assist patients had a…
Kolkata: Amid protests by a section of schoolteachers demanding that Census work be treated as official “on-duty” assignment, the Census authorities on Monday clarified that the exercise is an honorarium-based engagement and would largely have to be carried out beyond school hours. However, officials said district magistrates and municipal commissioners would have the discretion to…
Kolkata: In the Census exercise, a single house is not always a single household — and an address is certainly not a household number. What matters in Census is not simply who lives under the same roof but who eats from the same kitchen.As enumerators started the door-to-door verification for the house-listing process, Bengal Census…
Kolkata: The hotel fire at Tarapith can impact a mutiple-crore religion-tourist circuit weeks before Kaushiki Amavasya, when the pilgrim economy, centred around Tarapith and extending to Nalhati, Bakreswar and Kankalitala, is expected to enter its peak season.The state, which has already ordered a safety audit, plans to complete the safety checks of hotels, guest houses…
Tarapith: The early-morning fire at Hotel Bideshini in Tarapith, which claimed the lives of nine people, including five members of a family from Meghalaya, exposed safety violations across establishments in the temple town.The hotel turned into a smoke trap following a short circuit in an air-conditioning miniature circuit breaker (MCB) on the ground floor, raising…
Suri: The Birbhum district administration has constituted a special audit committee to inspect electrical installations and firefighting arrangements in hotels, lodges, guest houses, homestays and other establishments in Tarapith, hours after a blaze at a hotel in the temple town killed seven pilgrims and injured several others.The move comes ahead of Kaushiki Amavasya, when Tarapith…
Kolkata: Two persons were injured as fight broke out at a popular sweet shop in the Karaya area on Friday morning with a BJP Yuva Morcha member and his aide allegedly refusing to pay for some sweets. Police said the incident took place around 11 am on Friday when the store manager was on duty….
People queue up for submitting their e-KYCs for LPG connections at the waterlogged Amherst Street on Monday Kolkata: Torrential rain triggered by a depression left several pockets in the city go under water on Monday.Even as this system has already grazed past the city, Met officials expect its impact in the city to linger till…
The building where a balcony collapsed on Sunday night Kolkata: A 57-year-old man, Samir Sen of Russa Road, died after a portion of a balcony of a two-storeyed dilapidated residential structure in Golf Green collapsed on Sunday night. Cops said the victim was staying alone in the building. According to police sources, the incident took…
The 47-ft tree helped save lives Kolkata: From climbing down a tree to water pipes on the wall, to jumping in a pond and breaking window glasses to prevent suffocation, the survivors of Tarapith hotel fire escaped the blazing inferno in the wee hours of Monday.According to witnesses, the hotel’s emergency exit gate was locked…
