Kolkata: Two persons were injured as fight broke out at a popular sweet shop in the Karaya area on Friday morning with a BJP Yuva Morcha member and his aide allegedly refusing to pay for some sweets. Police said the incident took place around 11 am on Friday when the store manager was on duty….
People queue up for submitting their e-KYCs for LPG connections at the waterlogged Amherst Street on Monday Kolkata: Torrential rain triggered by a depression left several pockets in the city go under water on Monday.Even as this system has already grazed past the city, Met officials expect its impact in the city to linger till…
The building where a balcony collapsed on Sunday night Kolkata: A 57-year-old man, Samir Sen of Russa Road, died after a portion of a balcony of a two-storeyed dilapidated residential structure in Golf Green collapsed on Sunday night. Cops said the victim was staying alone in the building. According to police sources, the incident took…
The 47-ft tree helped save lives Kolkata: From climbing down a tree to water pipes on the wall, to jumping in a pond and breaking window glasses to prevent suffocation, the survivors of Tarapith hotel fire escaped the blazing inferno in the wee hours of Monday.According to witnesses, the hotel’s emergency exit gate was locked…
The kin of the deceased as well as injured devotees flocked to the hospital in search of the pilgrims who had booked rooms in the hotel Kolkata: Madhavi Modak from Shibabari village in Garo Hills of Meghalaya, undergoing treatment at Rampurhat Hospital, did not know that the Tarapith hotel fire took away her entire pilgrimage…
Adhikari at the inaugural ceremony of a Rs 4,000-crore integrated steel project in Purulia’s Raghunathpur Kolkata: Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari made it clear on Monday that his administration would never forcibly acquire land from farmers but would, instead, purchase land and then hand it over to industries, following the model adopted by states like Andhra…
Tarapith: A predawn blaze turned a hotel in the temple town of Tarapith into a death trap on Monday, killing nine guests, including five members of a family from Meghalaya, on the final Monday of the holy month of Shravan. Unconfirmed reports suggested the toll could rise by one more. Thirty-four people were pulled out…
Kolkata: The deletion of parents’ names from the voter list during SIR cannot be taken into consideration while deciding a candidate’s eligibility for an Economically Weaker Section (EWS) certificate, Calcutta High Court said on Monday and directed North 24 Parganas administration to urgently consider the application of a 22-year-old MBBS aspirant.Within hours of the HC…
A waterlogged street in Kolkata on Monday Kolkata: Incessant rain and protest rallies affected traffic in several parts of the city. Major roads like Amherst Street, Sukeas Street, Keshab Chandra Sen Street, portions of Diamond Harbour (DH) Road and the service roads along Bypass were inundated due to rain that lashed the city since Monday…
Kolkata: For enumerators heading to remote villages, forest settlements and other areas where mobile connectivity remains patchy, a disappearing network signal will not hamper the field work. An app has been designed with an offline facility, allowing field staff to fill in the 33-question household schedule even without an internet connection.“The feature on the Houselisting…
