Kolkata, June 25 (IANS) The death toll in the roof collapse at an under-construction warehouse on P2 Transport Depot Road in Kolkata’s Taratala rose to 11 on Thursday. Officials said 30 workers have been recovered from under the debris so far, with 11 confirmed dead and 19 undergoing treatment at SSKM Hospital. One of them is reported to be in critical condition.Rescue operations continued through Wednesday night and resumed Thursday morning, with teams from the Indian Army, the National Disas…
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Kolkata, June 24 (IANS) At least 50 to 60 workers were feared trapped after the roof of an under-construction warehouse collapsed at Taratala in South Kolkata on Wednesday.A rescue operation was quickly launched, and around 13 workers were rescued, said officials, adding that the injured were rushed to SSKM Hospital for treatment.The condition of five of the rescued injured is said to be critical.The Indian Army, NDRF, Fire Brigade and Kolkata Police personnel were conducting rescue operations o…
Kolkata, June 10 (IANS) Suvendu Adhikari-led government announced final portfolio distribution to the newly sworn-in minsters in West Bengal cabinet on Wednesday. Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has retained a number of crucial departments with him including Home and Hills Department, Land & Land Reforms, Refugee Relief & Rehabilitation, Power, Information and Cultural Affairs, Personnel and Administrative Reforms and other Departments not allotted to other Ministers.Journalist-turned-po…
Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) The state government has provided financial assistance of Rs 4 lakh to the family of a child who died after a light from a lamp post fell on her in Hastings area of central Kolkata, said government officials on Tuesday.On the instructions of Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, Maniktala BJP MLA Tapas Roy handed over a cheque of Rs 4 lakh to the deceased’s father S.K. Feroz on Monday night. Behala Paschim MLA Indranil Khan and police officials were present there.The six-year-o…
Kolkata, April 6 (IANS) Kolkata Police on Monday evening sent a notice for interrogation to Trinamool Congress MLA Ratna Chatterjee, who is the party’s candidate this time as well, over an incident of vandalism at a local office of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Behala (Paschim) Assembly constituency in the southern outskirts of Kolkata. Earlier in the day, a First Information Report (FIR) was registered against her at the local Parnasree Police Station under Behala (Paschim) Assembl…
Kolkata, Jan 12 (IANS) A controversy arose regarding a poster that displayed Trinamool Congress’ All India General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee in front of Swami Vivekananda’s ancestral residence located on Simla Street in North Kolkata on Monday.The BJP strongly criticised the poster, claiming that it featured only Abhishek Banerjee’s image and omitted any representation of Swami Vivekananda, despite the message ‘Welcome, Crown Prince’ written on it.The BJP said that by placing such a poster in …
Kolkata, Jan 7 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday named 34 members of the party’s new state committee in West Bengal.Party Rajya Sabha member, Samik Bhattacharya, was already elected as the state president of West Bengal last year.On Wednesday, the 34 members of the new state committee were named.The 34 new names included 12 vice-presidents, five general secretaries, 12 secretaries, one treasurer, two joint treasurers, one office secretary, and one joint office secretary.At the…