Kolkata: The toll in the Taratala warehouse collapse rose to 16 on Friday after three more bodies were pulled out of the debris, the last around 1.10 am, and two injured workers died at SSKM Hospital on Thursday night and Friday evening.One of the bodies recovered early on Friday was yet to be identified till…
Officials will examine under-construction projects for major violations, recommend rejection where required or suggest rectification measures to protect sanctioned plans Kolkata: Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari on Friday widened the ambit of the special audit of building plans and the construction pause at private high-rise and commercial projects to include more municipalities around Kolkata, but clarified…
The Taki Municipality has issued demolition notices to two multi-storey guest houses, Taki City Guest House and Disha Riverside Hotel, built illegally on the banks of the Ichhamati, directing the facilities to complying with a directive from the Calcutta High Court. The civic body has set July 1 as the deadline for demolition. The HC…
Kolkata: VietJet Thailand is set to fly into the city again on July 1, some 11 weeks after it had withdrawn the Kolkata-Bangkok flight citing rising fuel costs in the wake of the war in Iran.The airline will resume its four days-a-week operations. The incoming flight from Bangkok will land just before midnight on Sundays,…
Dwaipayan.GhoshKolkata: Former minister Aroop Biswas has been named in a fresh FIR over an alleged attempt on a lawyer’s life inside the Alipore court complex. The FIR was registered at Alipore Police Station under BNS sections 109 (attempt to murder) and 153 (wanton provocation with intent to cause a riot) following a violent altercation on…
Kolkata: Governor R N Ravi, the chancellor of Jadavpur University, stressed the need to acquaint the current generation with the legacy of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and the profound meaning behind Vande Mataram on the author’s birth anniversary on Friday. Terming him a “Rishi divinely ordained to wake up the nation”, Ravi said Vande Mataram galvanised…
Kolkata: An 11-year-old boy in Joynagar was allegedly abused by a local man after a minor accident during play.The boy was playing with friends after school when a stick in his hand accidentally hit a passerby, Tapan Haldar. Haldar allegedly dragged the boy by his hair, made him do sit-ups in public, then took him…
Lightning streaks across the sky during rain over the city, in Kolkata……Subhojyoti Kanjilal Kolkata: Tall, dark cumulonimbus clouds (CB) exploded on Kolkata on Thursday, triggering the heaviest 24-hour rain this June in the city. Alipore recorded 84.6 mm of rain. While the downpour forced the mercury to plunge by around six degrees within an hour,…
Kolkata: Thursday’s thundershower caused visible disruption around Kolkata airport, slowing road traffic and briefly affecting apron activity, but it did not bring flight operations to a halt. Despite intense rain and frequent lightning, arrivals and departures continued through the afternoon, with delays largely restricted to less than 15 minutes.Airport teams remained alert because of the…
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday adjourned the anticipatory bail hearing of Sumit Roy, personal assistant to Trinamool national general secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee, in connection with an alleged land scam case. The court directed Roy to file a supplementary affidavit by June 29 and asked the state to submit a memo of…
