KOLKATA: The promoter of an under-construction five-storey building in Birati, two of his partners and the contractor were arrested after a portion of the rooftop boundary wall of the building fell on a 53-year-old homemaker, killing her, late on ...
1 April 2024 Times of IndiaJALPAIGURI: At least four people were killed - crushed under falling trees - at two different places when a nor'wester, accompanied by a 'mini tornado', lashed Jalpaiguri for five minutes on Sunday afternoon.Around 367 people had to be hospitalised ...
1 April 2024 Times of IndiaSANDESHKHALI: Trinamool Congress Basirhat candidate Haji Nurul Islam on Sunday stepped into Sandeshkhali's volatile zone, canvassing support for the party, attacking opposition and promising to make a "new Sandeshkhali". The campaign rally started at the Abhijan Sangha ground in ...
1 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has extended the last date for tax payers to pay their dues online to April 7 after which the authorities will stop online or offline collection of property tax for financial year 2023-24. The ...
1 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Several city schools and those on the outskirts are going out of their way to make it comfortable for beginners who will be commencing their 15-year school journey this week.South City International School and Shri Shikshayatan School have ...
1 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Many parents are focussing on vocational training to make their autistic children self-reliant and financially independent so that they can eke out livelihood in the absence of their guardians. With this objective, several of these parents have been ...
1 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: In another instance of laser beam interference, an IndiGo pilot faced difficulty while landing in Kolkata on Saturday. The airline’s complaint to the airport operator has been taken up with Madhyamgram police station but the cops are yet ...
1 April 2024 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: At least four people were killed — crushed under falling trees — at two different places when a nor’wester, accompanied by a ‘mini tornado’, lashed Jalpaiguri for five minutes on Sunday afternoon. Around 367 people had to be ...
1 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Devotees participated in midnight vigils, made a beeline to churches for special prayers and participated in processions on Easter morning on Sunday which commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Members of different Church denominations, including the Roman Catholic ...
1 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The shimmering golden crown of the Kalighat temple was unveiled on Saturday. Crafted from an impressive 50 kilograms of 24-carat gold, the majestic crown now adorns the spire of the revered sanctum sanctorum. There are three crowns, among ...
1 April 2024 Times of IndiaMathurapur (South 24-Parganas): BJP should field the chiefs of central agencies — CBI, ED, I-T and NIA — from the four Bengal Lok Sabha constituencies where it has been unable to find candidates, Trinamool general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said ...
31 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Barely a fortnight after India’s first under-river transportation services were launched and the Metro reached Kolkata’s twin, Howrah, cleanliness seems to have been flushed out of 12 swank toilets at four stations. In fact, commuters are already raising ...
31 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bengal STF has arrested four persons over Thursday and Friday and seized contraband, together valued at Rs 2.9 crore. The Customs intelligence wing also seized drugs, valued at Rs 2 crore, from the port area in Kolkata.The ...
31 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: For the first time this season, the maximum temperature crossed 35 degrees Celsius. On Saturday, the maximum temperature climbed up half a notch from Friday to touch 35.1° Celsius, while the maximum real feel temperature remained above 40° ...
31 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta High Court has granted bail to a college student in custody under POCSO Act with a direction to the accused to appear before the trial court on every date of hearing.A division bench of Justice Joymalya ...
31 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 37-year-old woman waiting at a bus stop near Howrah bridge was killed and several others there escaped by a whisker after the brakes of a govt AC bus reportedly failed on Friday evening. Gita Das, a resident ...
31 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cops have arrested Mohd Safaraz, the kingpin of mule accounts in Khardaha, on Friday. Around 20 accounts, which were indirectly being used by him, were frozen. “The cyber police detective department had raided some call centres earlier this ...
31 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta HC has held that public exams could not be construed in a restrictive manner over “trivial” issues such that the experience became cruel for the candidate. The ruling came in a case, in which discrepancies in ...
31 March 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A 22-year-old woman was found dead in Palghar district, Maharashtra, allegedly strangled by her live-in partner for pressuring him to marry her. The accused, Minazuddin Abdul Ajij Mulla, also known as Ravindra Reddy, was apprehended in West Bengal. ...
30 March 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Afcons has claimed Rs 1,000-crore compensation from Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation for the "inordinate delay in completion of the Esplanade-Howrah Maidan part of East-West Metro project". ITD ITD-Cementation, builder of the stretch between Esplanade and Sealdah, has sought ...
30 March 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: As part of a week-long trial run, portions of the Ultadanga-bound flank of VIP Road near Kaikhali will be closed to traffic movement from Saturday. All vehicles will be diverted along the new three-lane 700m road that has ...
30 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city airport has made slight alterations in the SOP on use of taxiways near Wednesday’s accident spot to ensure there is no repeat of the incident that damaged two aircraft.An airport official said air traffic controllers have ...
30 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A powerful laser directed skyward from somewhere around the airport beamed into the cockpit of an Air India flight and momentarily blinded the pilots as they were preparing to land at Kolkata airport on Thursday evening. The airline’s ...
30 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: International airlines are gradually ramping up capacity on flights to Kolkata after making a cautious post-Covid comeback.Thai Airways will from Monday nearly double its capacity by replacing the narrow-body Airbus A320 aircraft with wide-body Boeing B777-200 aircraft. This ...
30 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: R Kumar-saddled Rocket Pandey is likely to repeat in the Stewards Cup in New Delhi on Saturday. The son of City Of Destiny will be ridden by Vivek G.Delhi selections3pm: 1. Khuda Baksh 2. Ashwa Nirja 3. White ...
30 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Border Security Force (BSF) at Gede on Friday seized nearly 7 kg gold worth Rs 4.7 crore when smugglers tried to sneak into India from Bangladesh. The consignment was headed for Kolkata. BSF personnel have arrested four ...
30 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city was scorched by hot and humid air on Friday, when it felt like 42°Celsius, though the actual maximum temperature was 34.7°Celsius. Prolonged local heating pushed up the real feel temperature, which is calculated, based on ...
30 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two companies of Kolkata Police left for Chhattisgarh early on Friday for Lok Sabha election deployment. This is probably the first time in decades that KP personnel are being posted in a region close to Bastar that still ...
30 March 2024 Times of IndiaWhile online dating depends upon endless swipe, left... right ... left, and so on, an advertisement by popular dating app Tinder in Kolkata has left netizens wanting for more.An Instagram post by a user named @ig_calcutta shows Tinder's genious ...
29 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The 84-year-old eye surgeon from GC Block who killed his wife and tried to attempt suicide on Wednesday might be suffering from a severe mental ailmet and was even undergoing treatment for it for the past 20-odd months. ...
29 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Magan Singh-nursed Shoolin, piloted by Dhanu Singh Deora, lifted the South West Zone Plate in New Delhi on Thursday. Delhi results (With Inter-Venue Dividends)1: (4-2-3) Shoolin 1; Awesome Vibe 2; Divine Honey 3. 2: (7-5-2) Ashwa Frankie 1; ...
29 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta University has instructed its affiliated colleges that if any student, appearing for the UG first-semester exams, comes down with an infectious disease, he or she should be admitted to Beliaghata ID Hospital from where the candidate can ...
29 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Uday Kumar (35) who lost his left leg in a train accident in 2015, climbed Mount Rhenock in Sikkim, making it to the summit at 16,500 feet. Kumar, who has 91% disability above the knee, is now preparing ...
29 March 2024 Times of IndiaSiliguri: Ahead of Lok Sabha polls in the Hills, Ajoy Edwards-led Hamro Party has joined the INDIA bloc, reports Roshan Gupta.With Edwards joining INDIA, speculations are rife that Congress may field ‘Bhumiputra’ Munish Tamang from the constituency. Edwards has ...
29 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 15-month-old child and his 12-year-old cousin, who were on Thursday morning playing on the pavement outside a multi-storied office complex on Lenin Sarani near Moulali, were severely injured when a mini-truck drove up the steep incline from ...
29 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: March is likely to bow out with one last thundershower by Saturday, mimicking a pre-monsoon nor’wester accompanied by mild rainfall. The light rain, however, is unlikely to deter either the maximum or the minimum temperatures from rising by ...
29 March 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Kolkata got a smart ICU in a hospital in Salt Lake on Thursday. Now Intensive Care Unit (ICU) will be paired with smart phones. Instead of diagnosing critically ill patients by visiting them in person, doctors may be ...
29 March 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Residents of the 40 shanties on Jessore Road, which were shifted on Feb 27, were taken to a spot opposite the Jessop factory, where another 137 households have been shifted over the last one year or so.Even as ...
28 March 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Former Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh was on Wednesday served show-cause notices by Election Commission as well as his party for describing Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee as being of "doubtful parentage". The EC asked Ghosh to explain by ...
28 March 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Kolkata may get its first Metro airport connectivity by Durga Puja in early Oct. All hurdles have been removed from the Yellow Line's 4km Dum Dum Cantonment-airport stretch, with the last lot of encroachments shifted out of the ...
28 March 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: ED on Wednesday sent its third summonses to Trinamool Krishnanagar LS candidate Mahua Moitra, asking her to appear at the agency's New Delhi office on March 28 in connection with alleged FEMA violations. Businessman Darshan Hiranandani has also ...
28 March 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday called BJP's Krishnanagar candidate Amrita Roy to tell her he was taking legal advice on distributing assets worth Rs 3,000 crore, attached by ED in connection with various investigations in the state, among ...
28 March 2024 Times of IndiaI was relaxing in my seat at the rear of the aircraft, listening to a song on the headphone, when I felt a sudden jolt. Instinctively, I turned left and looked out and spotted a red-coloured tip of the ...
28 March 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A CISF constable, C Vishnu shot himself from his service rifle – an INSAS – at Kolkata airport during the busy early morning hours on Thursday. He was taken to a private hospital where he was in coma ...
28 March 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Both planes were forced to abandon departure and return to the parking bay for inspection. The Darbhanga-bound passengers were later accommodated on another IndiGo fight and AI Express passengers were offered seats in other Chennai-bound flights.IndiGo in a ...
28 March 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A TMC campaign saying that her ancestors had helped the British against Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah in the Battle of Plassey prompted BJP's Krishnanagar candidate Amrita Roy to raise the issue with PM Narendra Modi."Since we are descendants of Maharaja ...
28 March 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: An 84-year-old eye surgeon, who retired from the Army, was found unconscious as his 73-year-old wife lay dead at their GC Block home in Salt Lake on Wednesday morning, leaving locals in shock.Police, after initial probe, are treating ...
28 March 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: An IndiGo aircraft taxiing for take-off grazed a stationary Air India Express plane at Kolkata airport on Wednesday, resulting in both being damaged. The impact tore off the left wing tip and the left winglet of the AI ...
28 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The death of a 73-year-old resident of Salt Lake’s GC Block in a supposed murder-and-suicide bid — where the husband allegedly stabbed the woman to death before drinking acid to attempt suicide — has shocked neighbours, who remember ...
28 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: In the wake of 12 deaths in a building collapse in Garden Reach, Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to issue distress warrants, an express order from the municipal commissioner, to raze illegal buildings that are unsafe. KMC ...
28 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Mumbai Police crime branch has busted a gang and arrested seven persons who were operating from multiple spots in north Bengal and Kolkata and cheating people by posing as bank officials and warning victims “of suspicious activity” ...
28 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: East Bengal FC booked a place in the Reliance Foundation Development League (RFDL) national group stage as champions of the East Zone qualifiers, beating Adamas United 3-0 on Wednesday. Avishek Kunjam (50), Tanmay Das (52) and Razibul Mistry ...
28 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Aashay Doctor- trained Nomitsi claimed he Calorescence Cup here at the RCTC on Wednesday. The three-year-old son of Actual was piloted by Vivek G.Kolkata results1. (2-4-3) Tres Bien 1: Elite 2: Pal Cha 3.2. (4-5-6) All Time Legend ...
28 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The relocation of the government-aided Garden Reach Mudiali High School (Boys), which is over a century old and housed in a dilapidated building barely a kilometre from the Garden Reach collapse zone, is set to begin on April ...
28 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 64-year-old man was found dead inside a jewellery shop on Hariram Goenka Street around 2 pm on Wednesday.Cops said the victim had been living in his brother’s workshop, where the body was found, for several weeks. Police ...
28 March 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: CM Mamata Banerjee, who is recuperating from a head injury, will hit the 2024 LS campaign trail on Sunday from Krishnanagar, where Trinamool has fielded Mahua Moitra as its candidate. On the same day, TMC is expected to ...
27 March 2024 Times of IndiaKALIMPONG: A 47-year-old former Army man from Kalimpong, allegedly tricked into working for the Russian army, has appealed to Indian government to rescue him before he is sent to fight on the Ukraine frontline.Former Indian Army havildar Urgen Tamang, ...
27 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Four revellers lost their lives in and around Kolkata and three others were severely injured as the city celebrated Dol on Monday. Cops have arrested 436 people — the highest since 2019 — and prosecuted over 3,000 bikers ...
27 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Members of the investigation team that had been set up by KMC to probe into the Garden Reach building collapse went to Azhar Mollah Bagan Lane on Tuesday to look at the site and collect samples of concrete ...
27 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calorescence Cup for maiden three-year-old runners has six in the fray at the RCTC here on Wednesday. The one who appeals most is Aashay Doctor-saddled Nomitsi in the hands of Vivek G. Outstation challenger No Worry has ...
27 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: All police stations across the city, including the one at Garden Reach where a building collapse killed 12, have been asked to complete an audit of all under-construction buildings in their respective areas. The buildings undergoing major remodelling ...
27 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Three teens, aged between 16 and 18, drowned while taking a bath in the Hooghly after playing Holi on Monday afternoon.The bodies of two of the boys, identified as Niraj Razak and Ranit Shaw, were recovered from Panihati ...
27 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: KMC on Tuesday started demolishing the five-storied tilted building next to the one that had collapsed in Garden Reach. Twelve people had died in the collapse. A KMC official said they were instructed to begin the demolition from ...
27 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The maximum temperature on Tuesday was two notches below normal, but brace for warmer days ahead. The Met office has predicted a rise in mercury in the coming days, with the maximum touching the 36°C mark by the ...
27 March 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Bengal BJP candidate and former state unit president Dilip Ghosh on Tuesday described Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee as being of "doubtful parentage", prompting a backlash from Trinamool and a complaint with Election Commission (EC).BJP, which found itself battling ...
27 March 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) on Sunday had to postpone a planned demolition of a damaged five-storey building in Garden Reach, next to the illegal one that crashed on the intervening midnight of last Sunday and Monday killing ...
26 March 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Esplanade Metro station has recorded a nearly threefold jump in ticket sales since the East-West Metro's Green Line became operational a week ago. Already the busiest station in the Metro network, footfall at the station, which is ...
25 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Those celebrating Holi outdoors may face the burn of a steadfastly rising maximum temperature, likely to cross 34°C on Monday. The real feel temperature may touch 40°C, due to local heating. In the absence of rain, the maximum ...
25 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Residents of several housing complexes and gated communities across the city have geared up to celebrate Holi with Prabhat Pheri, smearing of abir, cultural performances, DJ nights and food stalls. Holika Dahan, also called Nerapora, on Sunday night ...
25 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cops have arrested a bank official — identified as Soumya Kanti Jana — in connection to the murder of 70-year-old Subodh Sarkar, whose blood-soaked body, stashed in a red trolley bag, was found on the banks of a ...
25 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 42-year-old sub inspector, Animesh Bala, died while having dinner at Topsia police station in the early hours of Sunday. Police said Bala had just taken a break from night shift and was having a late dinner when ...
25 March 2024 Times of IndiaSiliguri: Traffic came to a complete halt on NH-31, which connects Siliguri with Dooars, and NH-10, which links Siliguri with Kalimpong and Sikkim, after rain triggered landslide on Saturday. Following the damage, the administration has diverted and restricted traffic ...
25 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: People from all walks of life gathered at Mohor Kunja on the Cathedral Road on Sunday to offer floral tributes to those who lost their lives to Covid 19. Four years ago on March 24, the nation went ...
25 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 57-year-old doctor, Deepa Halder, who had a fight with her husband, also a doctor, on Saturday night, was found hanging at her home in Behala’s Diamond Park on Sunday morning.Alerted by a call from her husband, Susovan ...
25 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city airport is set to expand beyond its current boundary to a 100-acre plot on the other side of VIP Road. A four-lane underpass will be constructed below VIP Road and the New Garia-Airport Metro line to ...
24 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Mohammedan Sporting were held 0-0 by Real Kashmir in Srinagar on Saturday — a result which threw the hosts out of the I-League title race and kept the Kolkata team’s own ambitions alive and kicking.Dropping points after winning ...
24 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Traffic Police is gearing up for Holi with special drink-driving checks from Saturday evening. These checks, said cops, will be carried out even in the morning till March 26, and based on the actual requirement on ...
24 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Doing away with the Esplanade station and terminating the Purple line at Park Street is likely to disrupt the ongoing plans of the multi-modal transport hub at Esplanade.Metro Railway general manager P Uday Kumar Reddy told media on ...
24 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Several current students from Bengal across universities figure on the toppers list of the GATE 2024, including an all-India second rank-holder in economics — Barninee Das from Presidency University — and electrical engineering student Kaustav Guha Roy from ...
24 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: With KKR hosting their first match at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata warmed up to the annual doze of cricket and entertainment on Saturday. The triumph of Shreyas Iyer and his boys over SRH in the opening game made ...
24 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Four years after the state recorded its first Covid death on March 23, 2020, a significant number of Kolkatans are contracting respiratory infections with Covid survivors forming a chunk of such patients. ‘Post-Covid lung’ continues to plague these ...
24 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Many will walk down to the Eden Gardens on Saturday not only to enjoy the battle between Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad, but also to watch who between Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc will emerge on the ...
23 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Eden Gardens is likely to witness a near packed-house show on Saturday when the city franchise, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), will take on Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in their first match of the IPL 2024. As per reports, till ...
23 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Innovation Hub for Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems, which was established by IIT-Kharagpur, launched MTech course in artificial intelligence through GATE papers like data analytics, computer science, electronics and electrical communication and electrical engineering ...
23 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata/Howrah: Police have recovered over Rs 1 crore in two separate raids in Kolkata and Howrah station on Friday. Nine persons have been arrested so far in this regard.The raids were conducted just weeks before the Lok Sabha elections. ...
23 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The postponed race day meeting of Wednesday will now be held at the RCTC here on Saturday. Etosha from the stable of Neil Darashah looks a good bet in 55EXCH Indian Gold Vase. The son of Namibia was ...
23 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Knight Riders seem to have taken a step back to recreate the future. It had been 10 long years since the purple brigade last lifted the IPL trophy and to bring about a change in fortunes, they ...
23 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A week after city pet lovers protested the neglect of stray dogs inside the Banabitan in Salt Lake, notices displayed on a board prohibiting feeding of stray animals inside the park were removed on Friday. There are about ...
23 March 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A team from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted searches at the residence of West Bengal minister Chandranath Sinha in Bolpur, Birbhum district.The search is part of the investigation into an alleged school recruitment scam.The ED team, accompanied by ...
22 March 2024 Times of IndiaSURI: A doctor couple from Suri put their daughter, a Class VI student, through the sacred thread ceremony (poite) on Wednesday following age-old traditions.The Upanayana ritual is ordinarily considered a male rite of passage, marking the acceptance of a ...
22 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata:Howrah-based businessman Debasis Banerjee had lost both his parents and a younger brother to Covid-19 in a matter of six days during the second wave of the pandemic. He could not even see them for the last time when ...
22 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The façade of the five-storey “Matchbox Burj Khalifa” that went viral on the internet is actually the washroom block from the first to the top floor, a spot visit by TOI revealed on Thursday.An internet sensation since the ...
22 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Nitish Rana was literally lifted into the Kolkata Knight Riders hot seat last year after it became evident that first-choice skipper Shreyas Iyer would not be available for the season. Iyer is back, but doubts over his fitness ...
22 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Operators on Route 52, a century-old private bus route between Howrah and Kolkata, were among the first to initiate talks on tweaking the alignment, away from the Metro corridor. Operators of routes 52 (Ramrajatala-Esplanade), 54 (Bally Khal-Esplanade) and ...
22 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: City-based film-maker Tathagata Ghosh was at the House of Commons—the lower house of the UK Parliament — on Tuesday evening. He was invited by the British Council as one of the international filmmakers at the 38th BFI Flare: ...
22 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city spent the coldest March night in 17 years between Wednesday and Thursday as the minimum temperature dipped to 18.2° Celsius, recorded around 5am on Thursday. It was 18.7° Celsius on Wednesday. The last time a March ...
22 March 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The KMC on Thursday started disciplinary proceedings against three buildings department officials for failing to locate the unauthorized building that collapsed in Azhar Molla Bagan in Garden Reach killing 10 people. According to a KMC official, the disciplinary ...
22 March 2024 Times of IndiaNestled amidst the picturesque hills of Darjeeling and Kurseong, renowned for their sprawling tea estates, a pressing challenge threatens the livelihoods of local communities, particularly those reliant on the tea industry — water security. As the world observes World ...
22 March 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Fifty-seven hours after a five-storey illegal building in Garden Reach came crashing down on a neighbouring slum burying scores, disaster management agencies engaged in search and rescue called off the operation on Wednesday evening. Since early Monday, they ...
21 March 2024 Times of IndiaMy sister Sakira Begum and her husband Akbar Ali were waiting for the day they would shift to the building that was being constructed adjacent to their small house at Azar Molla Bagan. Who knew the same building would ...
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