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,…
Kolkata: The Bengal govt is likely to introduce a bill on Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the Assembly on Monday. The Assembly’s Business Advisory Committee, chaired by Speaker Rathindra Bose, decided to email the draft UCC Bill to all MLAs and then table it for discussion on Monday.If passed, Bengal will join states like Gujarat,…
Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday blamed the previous Trinamool Congress dispensation for the collapse of the under-construction warehouse in Taratala, telling off the party, “This is the result of the sins you committed.”Holding a copy of the sanctioned building plan of the structure, which bore the signatures of then Trinamool mayor of Kolkata Municipal…
Work stops after Taratala collapse Kolkata: Construction activity came to a standstill at nearly 700 sites across the city on Thursday after the govt issued a stop-work notice following the warehouse collapse and deaths near Taratala.The real estate industry spent an anxious day, hoping the govt would review its decision within the next few days…
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…
