Kolkata collapse Kolkata Police, fire brigade ,Army and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel carry out a rescue operation at the site of an under-construction godown collapse, at Taratala, in Kolkata………Subhojyoti Kanjilal Kolkata: Residents and office-goers near Transport Depot Road were the first to rush to the rescue of the labourers trapped under the debris…
Following a fatal warehouse collapse, West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has halted all under-construction commercial projects approved by the previous government until July 31 KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday suspended work on all under-construction commercial projects approved by the previous TMC government till July 31.The CM ordered a comprehensive audit…
Kolkata: Jadavpur University’s anti-ragging committee has imposed varying punishments on 8 students accused of threatening and harassing a third-year engineering student after details of his RTI seeking placement-related data were leaked from the placement officer’s office. VC Chiranjib Bhattacharjee said, “The anti-ragging committee has submitted the report and the punishments have been communicated to the…
File photo of KMC workers and Kolkata Police trying to clear the road at Bidhan Market on Tuesday Kolkata: The city remained cloudy and received occasional drizzles on Wednesday (June 24) even as the maximum temperature clocked 30.8°C.Several areas across south Bengal continued to be lashed by severe thunderstorms.A seasonal trough and cyclonic circulations over…
Bengal finance minister Swapan Dasgupta Kolkata: Bengal govt is framing rules to roll out incentives aimed at attracting industrial investment, finance minister Swapan Dasgupta said at an Assocham family business conclave in the city on Wednesday. He said the incentive structure must be comparable to those in neighbouring Assam and Odisha to ensure fair competition…
Kolkata: The state govt on Tuesday issued a notification declaring Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s birth anniversary on July 6 as a holiday. The chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday, after the budget, declared that from this year onwards July 6 would be a holiday to pay tribute to him. On Tuesday, after offering floral tribute to…
Kolkata: The state on behalf of Bengal Special Task force (STF), has moved a Special Leave Petition in Supreme Court challenging the order of the division bench of Calcutta High Court’s Jalpaiguri circuit bench on June 19 ruled that scrapped the two notifications issued by the state govt–one was formation of two STF police stations…
A frantic rescue operation is underway in West Kolkata after an under-construction warehouse collapsed, trapping over 20 workers. KOLKATA: Cranes were mobilised, gas cutters deployed and ambulance sirens pierced through the chaos as a massive rescue operation unfolded at the Kolkata godown collapse site on Wednesday afternoon.Over 20 workers are feared trapped under the debris,…
Kolkata: The city police registered two separate cases of cyber fraud involving the siphoning of over Rs 39.7 lakh through credit card data manipulation and medical emergency impersonation.In the first incident, the Park Street police initiated a probe into a major credit card fraud involving Rs 38.8 lakh. According to police which received the complaint…
Several feared trapped after under-construction warehouse collapses in Kolkata (Picture credits: ANI) KOLKATA: Several people are feared trapped after an under-construction warehouse collapsed in the Taratala area of west Kolkata on Wednesday afternoon, triggering a large-scale rescue operation involving multiple agencies.Police said four people have so far been rescued from the debris.A Kolkata Police official…
