The passengers were stuck in the elevator at Liluah Railway station for 40 minutes Howrah: After being trapped in an elevator for about 40 minutes at Liluah railway station, nine passengers were rescued by personnel of Belur GRP, RPF and two technical staffers.On hearing the screams of the passengers on Friday, the rescue team rushed…
The incident took place on the Belgharia-Golbagan auto route..Arpita Bera Kolkata: A 23-year-old postgraduate student of Rabindra Bharati University (RBU) jumped out of a moving auto-rickshaw to escape an alleged molestation by its driver at Nimta in North Dum Dum on Friday night.According to police sources, the woman was sitting beside the driver while returning…
The Chalo Jaai office in Kolkata Kolkata: The three employees of tour agency Chalo Jaai Travel Club who rushed to Kathmandu a day after the flash floods returned home on Friday, shaken by the scale of the tragedy and the grim realisation that finding the 30 tourists who went missing along with their two colleagues…
State UD&MA dept minister Agnimitra Paul held a meeting with KMC, HMC and BMC officials along with the officers of the three commissionerate areas at Nabanna on Saturday Kolkata: The state urban development & municipal affairs dept is gearing up to impose fines for littering and spitting on the road, night parking charge for parking…
A total of 193 road stretches across the BMC area of Salt Lake and Rajarhat Gopalpur will be repaired Kolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started road repair work across Bidhannagar, as the authorities have identified 22 road stretches in Salt Lake where the existing damaged bituminous asphalt layer will be replaced with concrete…
Kolkata: A resident of Rasapunja in Joka was killed when an unidentified vehicle hit his motorcycle on Bakrahat Road in Thakurpukur around Saturday midnight.Koushik Ghosh was returning home from work when the vehicle rammed into his bike near the Metro Heights complex. In the impact, Ghosh was thrown to the ground amid a drizzle, police…
Kolkata: They know when their parents, friends and relatives left Nepal. They do not know if they ever reached China. Families of 32 tourists from Bengal missing after Wednesday’s flash flood on the Nepal-Tibet border are searching for one crucial answer: whether or not their relatives crossed into China after leaving Nepal.Five others from Bengal…
Security Breach at Presidency Correctional Home Kolkata: Three smartphones, Wi-Fi equipment, multiple storage devices and Rs 31,000 in cash were sized from the high-security Presidency Correctional Home’s Cell No. 14, occupied by life convict Aftab Ahmed Ansari, the mastermind behind the 2002 terror attack on the American Center, prompting an investigation into the security breach.Investigators…
Anukul and wife Reba, on way to Kailash-Mansarovar, were just two hours from the Nepal-China border when they were stopped and asked to turn back Kolkata: For retired schoolteachers Anukul Poddar and wife Reba Ray Poddar, the ordeal is finally nearing an end. After narrowly escaping the devastating disaster in Nepal, the Basirhat couple boarded…
Dr H L Roy Building after being whitewashed on Saturday A graffiti on the walls of Dr H L Roy Building at Jadavpur University before it was whitewashed on Saturday Dr H L Roy Building after being whitewashed on Saturday A graffiti on the walls of Dr H L Roy Building at Jadavpur University before…
