Agartala: The tragic explosion at a flat in the Ramnagar locality here on Thursday claimed its first victim on Friday, as Shubhrajit Choudhury, who sustained critical injuries in the blast, succumbed during treatment at Gobind Ballabh Pant (GBP) Hospital.Shubhrajit was an employee at the Abacus Agartala Head Office mathematics study circle. The news of his…
An under-construction warehouse collapsed, resulting in the tragic loss of 14 lives with 19 individuals injured KOLKATA: The death toll in the collapse of an under-construction warehouse in Kolkata’s Taratala area has risen to 14, with 19 others injured, as rescue teams continued to search through the debris on Friday.The warehouse, located off Hyde Road,…
Kolkata: Barasat MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, who is one of the key members of the rebel bloc of MPs, has on Thursday met CM Suvendu Adhikari at Nabanna.According to sources, Kakoli said that the MPs needed more cooperation of the district magistrates. “MPs need to use different state govt agencies for better utilization of the…
Patient party at SSKM on Thursday photo by Sayantan Chakraborty Kolkata: The collapse of an under-construction warehouse in Taratala on Wednesday morning buried dozens of workers under concrete, steel and twisted iron. For one family from Bihar’s Munger, it also destroyed the fragile source of income that had drawn nearly an entire generation of men…
Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari in the assembly on Thursday Kolkata: The Bengal assembly is set to amend the West Bengal Maintenance of Public Order Act, 1972, to empower the administration to recover compensation from people involved in violence and damage to public or private property, including those accused of inciting, funding, aiding or sheltering offenders.The…
Kolkata: The sole proprietor of Behera Brothers, Shambhunath Behera, the firm that owned the collapsed warehouse at Taratala, was arrested in the early hours of Thursday after police spent nearly 10 hours combing a residential complex on James Long Sarani where he had allegedly been hiding. His family repeatedly claimed that he was not there.Behera,…
Lightning streaks across the sky during rain over the city, in Kolkata……Subhojyoti Kanjilal Kolkata: Tall, dark cumulonimbus clouds (CB) exploded on Kolkata on Thursday, triggering the heaviest 24-hour rain this June in the city. Alipore recorded 84.6 mm of rain. While the downpour forced the mercury to plunge by around six degrees within an hour,…
Kolkata: Thursday’s thundershower caused visible disruption around Kolkata airport, slowing road traffic and briefly affecting apron activity, but it did not bring flight operations to a halt. Despite intense rain and frequent lightning, arrivals and departures continued through the afternoon, with delays largely restricted to less than 15 minutes.Airport teams remained alert because of the…
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday adjourned the anticipatory bail hearing of Sumit Roy, personal assistant to Trinamool national general secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee, in connection with an alleged land scam case. The court directed Roy to file a supplementary affidavit by June 29 and asked the state to submit a memo of…
Kolkata: A fresh FIR has been filed against former ward 35 councillor Asutosh Das and 16 associates for allegedly running an organised land-grab operation in Beleghata. Based on landowner Tarun Biswas’s complaint, Beleghata police booked the accused for trespass, intimidation and organised crime under BNS sections. Biswas alleged the group padlocked his plot on Raja…
