Waterlogging at SSKM on Thursday photo by Sayantan Chakraborty Kolkata: Over 100 mm rain in less than one-and-a-half hours on Thursday afternoon inundated thoroughfares across the city uprooting trees and crippling traffic system. Storm water entered major hospitals such as SSKM, RG Kar Medical College, Belle Vue Clinic causing hardships for the patients and the…
Patient families at SSKM on Thursday Kolkata: Doctors across multiple specialties at IPGMER-SSKM’s Trauma Care Centre are working round the clock to treat the 19 injured rescued from the Taratala collapse site, even as one of the critically injured patients died on Thursday morning.The hospital administration mobilised its emergency response team within minutes of being…
Suvendu Adhikari and Samik Bhattacharya at the event on Thursday Kolkata: Autocracy and arrogance are not part of BJP’s ideology, and Bengal’s history has never accepted them, CM Suvendu Adhikari and Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said on Thursday.At an event to mark the day when Emergency was declared on June 25, 1975, the CM…
Kolkata: The 70-foot Lionel Messi statue, dismantled and removed from its pedestal in Lake Town on VIP Road over safety concerns, will be reinstalled at Eco Park in New Town, Bidhannagar MLA and health minister Sharadwat Mukherjee said after a meeting with civic officials at the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation headquarters on Thursday. The statue is…
rescue work in taratala Next day of Taratala Godown incident NDRF, Army and others rescue team continue the rescue work, one body recovered on thursday morning. Pix:- Biplab Bhattacharjee Kolkata: The absence of any attendance register or worker records at the under-construction warehouse that collapsed at Transport Depot Road, Taratala, on Wednesday has made it…
Kolkata: For nearly 12 hours, 19-year-old Mannu Kumar lay trapped under tonnes of concrete, twisted steel and broken masonry after an under-construction warehouse collapsed in Taratala on Wednesday. Buried deep in the basement, the migrant worker from Bihar’s Munger was surrounded by darkness, dust and debris, with no way of knowing whether rescuers could reach…
Kolkata: The state govt has asked all city gas distribution (CGD) companies operating in Bengal to submit details of their land requirements and projects awaiting administrative approvals to expedite the rollout of gas infrastructure.At a meeting with representatives of CGD companies on Thursday, state commerce and industries secretary Vandana Yadav directed them to provide details…
Kolkata: The Bengal govt has appointed senior IAS officer Krishna Gupta as the new state election commissioner (SEC), the post lying vacant since last Sept after Rajiva Sinha retired.According to a govt notification, Dr Gupta, currently serving as additional chief secretary in the co-operation department, will assume charge after his retirement on superannuation on June…
The workshop was held recently in the Sundarbans Kolkata: A community culinary excellence initiative — a two day transformative capacity-building workshop — was implemented at BaghBon ,the Multipurpose Community Resource Centre of a city-based NGO in the Sundarbans to equip communities residing in the forest-fringe villages of the Sundarbans Tiger Reserve with advanced culinary skills,…
The death toll in the Kolkata warehouse collapse has climbed to 10, with rescue efforts intensifying using advanced Army technology KOLKATA: The death toll in the Kolkata warehouse collapse rose to 10 on Thursday as rescue teams, aided by the Army’s advanced ground-penetrating radar (GPR) system, continued intensive search operations nearly 21 hours after the…
