Kolkata: After 72 hours of digging through concrete and mangled steel to retrieve trapped labourers at the collapsed Taratala warehouse, focus shifted from search-and-rescue to investigation on Saturday.The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) withdrew from the site, and the Army scaled down its operation even as investigators prepared to take control of the site.“We were…
Kolkata: A 39-year-old resident of Hooghly’s Rishra allegedly killed his 31-year-old wife at their rented home on Saturday morning, travelled 20km to Kolkata, and died by suicide hours later by jumping in front of a metro train at Belgachhia station around 3pm. The suicide disrupted services on the Blue Line for 50 minutes.Late on Friday,…
Kolkata: Nearly a year after Rs 56 lakh was siphoned off from Trinamool MP Kalyan Banerjee’s bank account, Kolkata Police’s cybercrime wing has arrested the alleged mastermind from Assam. Accused Mukuleswar Reza was arrested from Rangapaniand produced before a court on Saturday. The fraud came to light in Nov 2025. The account, opened at a…
Ramprasad Chowdhury, who was injured construction workers of the Taratala warehouse collapse in Kolkata at SSKM hospital. Kolkata: For nearly five agonising hours, 22-year-old Ramprasad Chowdhury lay trapped under tonnes of concrete and steel, fearing each moment could be his last.A massive reinforced concrete beam fell on his right leg and crushed it. But rescuers…
Kolkata: The high level inquiry committee set up by the state govt is finalising a standard operating procedure based on which audit of high-rises and commercial buildings in 12 civic body areas, including Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), will be conducted.Officials said the audit will be conducted according to a two-layer system. The first layer will…
Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation is set to make all municipal markets hawker-free. The exercise will begin from New Market and will later be implemented in phases across all major markets to make them encroachment-free. The matter was discussed on Saturday afternoon at a Town Vending Committee meeting at the civic headquarters.The KMC market dept…
Agartala: A couple from Bangladesh was taken into custody in South Tripura on Friday night for allegedly entering Indian territory through an unauthorised route and without valid documents.Police reported that Santanu Debnath and his wife, who are from Chattogram in southern Bangladesh, were stopped at Debdaru in Shantirbazar while riding a passenger bus. Their suspicious…
Kolkata: Bengal’s newly elected BJP govt is planning to hold its first industry conclave in the next three to four months, possibly in Sept, according to officials, who said the govt was focused on projects that can be implemented quickly following announcements.“We plan to hold an industry conclave before or soon after Durga Puja. The…
Encroachments along Kestopur canal Kolkata: The state govt would prepare an SOP to clear encroachments from both sides of an 8-km-long stretch of the Kestopur canal, Bidhannagar MLA Sharadwat Mukherjee said after a meeting at Poura Bhavan on Thursday.Pointing out that over 70% of the stretch was encroached upon, Mukherjee said, “An SOP on how…
Kolkata: Baguiati PS cops on Thursday arrested Bikash Naskar, husband of former Trinamool BMC councillor Purnima Naskar, on the charges of extortion and assault. Naskar became the sixth political representative from the BMC area to be arrested over the past one-and-a-half months.The complaint was lodged recently though the incident dates back to 2020.So far, 10…
