Kolkata: The under-construction structure, which collapsed on Transport Depot Road near Taratala on Wednesday, was coming up on a plot, leased by Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port, Kolkata, to Behera Brothers for a warehouse and cold storage facility.Sanjoy Kumar Mukherjee, public relations officer of SMPK, said the plot, measuring around 72,000 sq ft, was leased to…
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed the deportation of three Bangladeshi nationals, who had so far served 1.9 out of their three years of sentence in a Bengal prison, pointing out they could be deported amid the ongoing “pushback”.Justice Tirthankar Ghosh was of the view that “what purpose would be solved by keeping…
Kolkata: Return a fee of Rs 9,50,000 to the student, who sought to leave the college as she found the institute did not have “proper educational facilities”, six days after taking admission, the Calcutta High Court directed a private dental college, pointing out that they had to follow the University Grant Commission (UGC) fee refund…
Kolkata: Visitors to Rabindra Sarobar may have to pay entry fees. The urban development department is discussing the proposal of levying an entry fee to control access to the Lake. At present, there is an entry fee at Banabitan Biodiversity Park in Salt Lake and in the grounds of Victoria Memorial Hall.Sources said the proposal…
Kolkata: In a cyber fraud case involving artificial intelligence (AI), an 81-year-old senior citizen from north Kolkata was swindled of Rs 17.8 lakh. The fraud was triggered after the elderly resident clicked on a link embedded in a YouTube video that featured a fake, AI-generated likeness of union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman promoting an investment…
Kolkata: The state school education department will assess how many schools have rooftop solar systems and identify gap areas. A meeting was held with the central govt regarding the installation of rooftop solar power on Tuesday. A meeting was held for implementing ‘PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana in Govt Schools’, where representatives from the…
Kolkata: Three men, Gopal Dhara (42), Dipankar Mondal (25), and Shankar Bhuiyan (55), have been arrested by Anandapur Police for their involvement in an illegal soil smuggling racket operating on govt land near Ruby Crossing. Acting on a complaint by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority, officers raided the vacant plot and arrested them for excavating soil…
Kolkata: Five people were killed and 20 others injured after a 32,000 sq ft under-construction warehouse at Taratala came crashing down around 11.30 am on Wednesday, burying around 40 labourers under tonnes of concrete slabs, mangled iron beams, steel and corrugated tin sheets.Nearly 400 personnel drawn from the Army, National Disaster Response Force, State Disaster…
The plot on which the building stands is one of the three properties allegedly usurped Kolkata: A woman battling cancer complained to CM Suvendu Adhikari at his Janata Darbar on Wednesday that former CM Mamata Banerjee’s elder brother Ajit Banerjee had usurped three plots owned by her family — the first in 1999 and the…
Kolkata: Durga Puja theme artistes have decided to make a ‘no objection certificate’ mandatory for organisers from next year in an effort to curb the widespread practice of partial or withheld payments. The NOC will be issued by an artist only after a puja committee clears all dues. Artistes taking up work for a pandal…
