A fire broke out on the second-floor terrace of the Air Traffic Control (ATC) building at Kolkata airport KOLKATA: A fire broke out on the extended open terrace area of the second floor of the Air Traffic Control (ATC) building at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata around 4am on Tuesday, triggering a…
Rescue teams continued operations at the site to ensure that no one remained trapped under the debris. KOLKATA: One person was killed and 19 others were injured after a building collapsed in Kolkata’s Jorabagan area, officials said on Tuesday.The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and Disaster Management Group (DMG) teams launched rescue operations following the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
