a suspected short circuit triggered a blaze on the second-floor terrace of the Air Traffic Management complex at Kolkata airport in the early hours of Tuesday Kolkata: Evacuating a building is standard protocol in the event of a fire. But when a suspected short circuit triggered a blaze on the second-floor terrace of the Air…
Kolkata: All the deaths in the blaze that broke out in a commercial building at 15G, Mirza Ghalib Street occurred on the ill-fated second floor, which investigators said had been altered extensively and housed multiple establishments in cramped conditions.Police said the deaths were the result of gross negligence and that fire and building safety rules…
The other hotel, owned by Bireswar Mitra, located also on Free School Street Kolkata: Bireswar Mitra, owner of Shikha Inn, located on the second floor of the five-storey building at 15, Mirza Ghalib Street, also owns Hotel Jaapon, situated right opposite. Apart from these two, Mitra owns two hotels in Digha.Mitra, the resident of Roy…
Fang marks on the child’s leg Kolkata: The private school near Ruby Hospital remained closed on Wednesday to conduct a thorough inspection of the premises to ensure it was clear of snakes. The student is undergoing treatment at a private hospital and is in stable condition.A Class 3 student of the school suffered a snakebite…
Debasish Dutta and his wife Afsana Kolkata: Tuesday evening was marked with joy for Kushtia resident Debasish Dutta as he and his family picked out new clothes for Durga Puja along the alleys of New Market.Barely seven hours after the shopping outing, the bodies of the family of four — Debasish, his wife Afsana, the…
Kolkata: Kolkata’s Municipal Building Committee — the final sanctioning authority for a wide range of construction proposals — has not met for six months, resulting in more than 300 projects getting stuck in a bureaucratic freeze.The deadlock has halted approvals for several categories of projects, including commercial developments, residential projects on 500-square-metre plots, hospitals, educational…
Special Investigation Team to probe blaze Kolkata: Nine people, at least five of them Bangladeshi nationals, choked to death in their sleep after a fire broke out at a lodge inside a five-storey building on Free School Street in central Kolkata around 1.40 am Wednesday, trapping guests inside smoke-filled rooms. Around 80 people were rescued…
Naushad Ali, a lawyer from Islampur in Uttar Dinajpur, had travelled to Kolkata with his colleagues to attend a hearing at Calcutta High Court Kolkata: Among those trapped in the blaze that broke out a little before 2 am in the five-story building housing multiple hotels was a lawyer from Islampur in Uttar Dinajpur. Naushad…
Kolkata: The state govt on Wednesday informed the Calcutta High Court that it has withdrawn a notification mandating teachers to engage in census work after school hours and on weekends.This came a day after the HC flagged a lack of coordination between the state and the Centre over the work schedule for teachers assigned census…
Malda: A 30-year-old Group D worker at Malda Medical College and Hospital has alleged that her supervisor repeatedly raped her while threatening to terminate her job.She lodged a complaint against her supervisor Subhankar Laskar at English Bazar police station on Sunday. Police had the woman medically examined and arrested Laskar from his English Bazar residence….
