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…
Traffic signal disruption at S N Banerjee Road in Kolkata Kolkata: Even as rains caused a major headache to Kolkata traffic cops vehicular movement remained a major headache even deep in to the evening after multiple signals malfunctioned – including those that had been malfunctioning since last Tuesday.Among those areas that suffered were the SN…
Kolkata Police emergency SOP Kolkata: The state govt on Thursday announced the setting up of a 200-member, highly skilled, elite team for quick response to an emergency, like the Taratala tragedy. “The rescue operation at Taratala is continuing. Keeping the need for emergency response to such incidents in mind, the state has decided to form…
Kolkata: Long before rescuers recovered his body from beneath tonnes of twisted steel and concrete at Taratala, Asgar Hussain had emerged as one of the central figures in the warehouse collapse in Taratala.To some, he was a contractor. To others, he was a local political worker, close to former mayor and Kolkata Port MLA Firhad…
Suvendu Adhikari after Taratala collapse Kolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday announced a four-week suspension of all construction projects in Kolkata and adjoining municipal areas, barring emergency and relief-related work, to facilitate a safety audit of under-construction buildings. The suspension will cover all the 144 wards under KMC as well as municipal areas of…
Kolkata: The death toll in Wednesday’s collapse of an under-construction warehouse in Taratala rose to 11 after five more bodies were pulled out of the rubble and one critically injured person died in hospital on Thursday. Rescuers feared the toll could rise further as they suspected three more bodies were still under the rubble.Five persons,…
