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: The 70-foot Lionel Messi statue, dismantled and removed from its pedestal in Lake Town on VIP Road over safety concerns, will be reinstalled at Eco Park in New Town, Bidhannagar MLA and health minister Sharadwat Mukherjee said after a meeting with civic officials at the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation headquarters on Thursday. The statue is…
Kolkata: For nearly 12 hours, 19-year-old Mannu Kumar lay trapped under tonnes of concrete, twisted steel and broken masonry after an under-construction warehouse collapsed in Taratala on Wednesday. Buried deep in the basement, the migrant worker from Bihar’s Munger was surrounded by darkness, dust and debris, with no way of knowing whether rescuers could reach…
Patient party at SSKM on Thursday photo by Sayantan Chakraborty Kolkata: The collapse of an under-construction warehouse in Taratala on Wednesday morning buried dozens of workers under concrete, steel and twisted iron. For one family from Bihar’s Munger, it also destroyed the fragile source of income that had drawn nearly an entire generation of men…
Kolkata: Two minutes saved Faruque Mondal from getting buried under tonnes of concrete and steel on Wednesday.Mondal, 30, a labourer from Basanti in the Sundarbans, had just stepped out of the under-construction warehouse in Taratala with fellow worker Vijay Yadav to carry a stack of iron bars when the structure behind them collapsed.“I had just…
The workshop was held recently in the Sundarbans Kolkata: A community culinary excellence initiative — a two day transformative capacity-building workshop — was implemented at BaghBon ,the Multipurpose Community Resource Centre of a city-based NGO in the Sundarbans to equip communities residing in the forest-fringe villages of the Sundarbans Tiger Reserve with advanced culinary skills,…
The death toll in the Kolkata warehouse collapse has climbed to 10, with rescue efforts intensifying using advanced Army technology KOLKATA: The death toll in the Kolkata warehouse collapse rose to 10 on Thursday as rescue teams, aided by the Army’s advanced ground-penetrating radar (GPR) system, continued intensive search operations nearly 21 hours after the…
Even after nightfall, rescuers feared that at least a dozen more could still be trapped beneath the collapsed structure. Kolkata: Koi andar hain? (Is anyone there? ). The desperate call from workers rang out through the mangled remains of an under-construction warehouse on Transport Depot Road in Taratala on Wednesday as rescuers cut through twisted…
Kalyani: TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar arrives in Kalyani to attend West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari’s administrative meeting involving Nadia, Hooghly and North 24 Parganas districts on Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (Photo: IANS) Kolkata: Responding to Trinamool Krishnanagar MP Mahua Moitra’s repeated barbs, rebel MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar on Wednesday said that calling the…
A stellar line-up of musicians came together at Netaji Indoor Stadium on Sunday as musical duo Sourendro and Soumyojit marked World Music Day with a concert celebrating India’s independent music scene. Inspired by folk traditions from across the country, the evening featured original compositions performed by Hariharan, Shankar Mahadevan, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Rekha and Vishal…
