Several lodges and shops in the Marquis Street area have been shut after the fire tragedy on Aug 19 Kolkata: Bangladeshis planning to travel to Kolkata for medical treatment or other purposes have been advised to secure hotel accommodation in advance, following the temporary closure of several residential hotels in the city after a fire…
Kolkata: A Metro train on the Blue Line or the North-South corridor suddenly came to a halt at Belgachhia station as passengers complained of having detected smoke in a coach on Friday afternoon.Eyewitnesses said the fire scare occurred around 4.35pm on a Dakshineswar-bound rake at Belgachhia metro station.“Black smoke was found emanating from a moving…
Kolkata: The state fire department on Friday declared the sixth and seventh floors of 9 Camac Street, which house Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s office, “unsafe from a fire and life-safety point of view” and ordered that they be vacated immediately.A basement floor, where people visiting or working at Abhishek’s office park their cars,…
The 73-year-old complainant alleged he had been kept under “digital arrest” for 10 days in Jan last year and forced to transfer his life savings of Rs 1,74,10,500 to the swindlers Kolkata: Calcutta High Court has for the first time ordered a CBI probe into a digital arrest complaint, lodged by a retired Air Force…
Foundation stone laying ceremony for the Uttam Kumar Film Centre Kolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari said the state govt will soon appoint Mithun Chakraborty as the official cultural adviser. He announced this during the foundation stone laying ceremony for the ambitious three-part Uttam Kumar Film Centre at New Town Action Area II for which the…
Kolkata: Ratna Debnath, mother of the RG Kar rape-and-murder victim and BJP MLA from Panihati, on Friday demanded the arrest and questioning of former chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who was also the health minister, and state health principal secretary Narayan Swaroop Nigam as part of the probe into her daughter’s death.“My daughter was raped and…
A rain-battered stretch on EM Bypass Kolkata: Fresh craters and potholes appeared on several stretches on EM Bypass after the recent spell of rain. Earlier, the 3.5 km stretch between Ruby and Science City was in a bad shape and the big craters were filled up recently.The motorists and bikers have urged for a similar…
Kolkata: A baby’s hunger made a loco pilot stop at a station out of turn even though the express train was running eight hours late, courtesy a diversion, and was not supposed to make any stop till it reached its destination.The Sealdah-bound Darjeeling Mail stopped at Naihati on Friday as an anxious mother waited for…
Kolkata: Members of the Jadavpur University executive council (EC) raised concern over the external and internal provocations that are being carried out and urged that normal academic and administrative activities should be restored immediately.JU held an EC meeting virtually after four months to select two council nominees for appointing a new registrar and finance officer….
A damaged section of railway tracks and overhead electrical lines following land subsidence near New Farakka station in Murshidabad Malda: Train services between Kolkata and north Bengal remained severely disrupted for the second straight day on Friday following repeated track subsidence caused by continuous heavy rainfall between New Farakka and Tildanga stations in Malda division.Rainwater…
