Kolkata, July 22 (IANS) West Bengal Municipal Affairs and Urban Development Minister Agnimitra Paul on Wednesday inspected the cultural and academic hub — College Street in Kolkata — as part of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led state government’s decision to give the street a makeover on the model of London’s ‘Oxford Street’. The Minister visited the entire College Street area with Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) Commissioner Smita Pandey and other officials. She reached College Street in the…
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Kolkata, June 29 (IANS) The BJP government is set to give an international-standard makeover to Kolkata’s famous College Street, state Municipal Affairs Minister Agnimitra Paul said on Monday.The area will be developed as a completely pollution-free and no-vehicle zone on the lines of London’s famed Oxford Street. As a result, there will be no traffic congestion or honking in College Street. The bookstores, too, will be redesigned around a new theme.The state’s Municipal Affairs and Urban Develo…
Kolkata, June 26 (IANS) On the occasion of the 189th birth anniversary of Rishi Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, the writer of India’s National Song, ‘Vande Mataram’, West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Friday announced the setting up of ‘Vande Mataram Museum’ in the state.The Chief Minister participated in a programme to celebrate the birth anniversary of Rishi Bankim Chandra at the latter’s ancestral residence at College Street in North Kolkata. After garlanding the picture of the …
Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) It is more than four decades now that India’s noted pop-singer Usha Uthup first rendered the celebrated lines in her ode to Kolkata (then spelt Calcutta), calling the city “beautiful” despite the several challenges and obstacles that its residents have been facing through the times.The song mentions the city then hosting incessant political rallies and marches, hawkers blocking footpaths, frequent power cuts, environmental and traffic problems, handcarts and rickshaw…