In the first quarter of the 2026–27 financial year alone, 54 people—53 Indian nationals and 1 foreign national—were arrested at the Kolkata airport as authorities cracked down on massive drug smuggling networks.As per data available with The Indian Express, ...
31 July 2026 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Wednesday designated three fast-track courts in Kolkata and two in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands for question paper leak cases. They must complete trials and deliver verdicts within three months of chargesheets being filed ...
31 July 2026 Indian ExpressIn a recently-implemented transfer policy in the health department, the state government has mandated transfer of officers serving a post for three years and no posting in home districts.According to sources, the Department of Health and Family Welfare issued ...
31 July 2026 Indian ExpressAt daybreak police in Bengal’s Birbhum loaded Rs 28.5 crore in cash and 15 kg in gold bars – worth an estimated Rs 21.3 crore – into six vans and a large transport vehicle, and drove away.The money and ...
31 July 2026 Indian ExpressChief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday said that the government will provide eggs in mid-day meals along with the proposed ISKCON-cooked vegetarian meals in schools across Kolkata from August 1. This comes amid a controversy after the BJP government ...
31 July 2026 Indian ExpressRebel Trinamool Congress MLA Madan Mitra appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Kolkata for questioning in connection with the municipal recruitment scam Wednesday.Speaking to reporters before entering the agency’s office in Salt Lake, the MLA, who had switched ...
30 July 2026 Indian ExpressIt took five cash-counting machines, five heavy tin trunks, and hours for the police to process what they found inside a modest house in the Birbhum district of West Bengal.Police sources said they have so far recovered around 15 ...
30 July 2026 Indian ExpressA 36-year-old Assistant Professor from the Electrical Engineering department of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur was found dead on Wednesday, police said, adding that they are probing the angle of suicide.According to police sources, the deceased has ...
30 July 2026 Indian Express“He had gone to the shop for groceries that day with a few acquaintances. He was picked up after the protest. I don’t even know what he actually did at the protest site,” said the mother-in-law of 47-year-old Khalid ...
30 July 2026 Indian ExpressShe is a private tutor and he runs his own business. Their families live in the same Howrah neighbourhood, and they have been in a relationship for more than a decade. Everything was fine until they decided to get ...
30 July 2026 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari Tuesday announced dedicated toll-free helplines for citizens to report complaints directly regarding “cut money” (bribe), extortion syndicates, illegal toll booths, and bootlegging. However, he cautioned the public against misusing the grievance portal to ...
30 July 2026 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal government on Monday introduced the Mukhya Mantri Swasthya Bima Yojana (MMSBY) to strengthen access to public healthcare and insulate households from high medical expenses. It offers a Rs 5-lakh health coverage to residents who are covered ...
29 July 2026 Indian ExpressThe Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday organised two simultaneous ‘Tiranga Yatras’ in Kolkata, in a show of strength to counter the massive students’ protest that rocked Central Kolkata last Friday.The two rallies — one from Sealdah to Esplanade, the ...
29 July 2026 Indian ExpressTrinamool Congress (TMC) general secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla in his parliamentary chamber Monday, handing over two separate letters regarding pending disqualification petitions against rebel MPs and the recent reallocation of parliamentary seats. ...
29 July 2026 Indian ExpressBengali actor Sreelekha Mitra has landed in legal trouble following her participation in a student protest in Kolkata on Friday, with complaints lodged against her across several police stations for allegedly displaying a derogatory poster depicting Prime Minister Narendra ...
28 July 2026 Indian ExpressThe Kolkata police on Monday arrested two more people over the NEET protest violence, even as they paraded five of the 14 accused arrested earlier and reconstructed the crime scene. The accused were made to walk barefoot.Each of the ...
28 July 2026 Indian ExpressThe police have announced major traffic diversions in Kolkata on July 26 and July 27 owing to maintenance work on two major bridges connecting the city with Howrah. Diversions will be in place towards the Vidyasagar Setu on Sunday ...
28 July 2026 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal government has constituted a syllabus-cum-curriculum committee to review and recommend major revisions to the curriculum, syllabus, and textbooks for Classes 1 to 12. The move aims to align the state’s school education system with the National ...
28 July 2026 Indian ExpressThe Kolkata police have arrested at least 14 people in connection with the alleged violence against police and journalists during Friday’s protest in Esplanade against the NEET paper leak.The police first registered a suo moto case over the alleged ...
28 July 2026 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Panchayat (Amendment) Bill, aimed at temporarily transferring exclusive authority to sign financial documents from pradhans to panchayat secretary and assistant secretary, was passed in the Assembly on Saturday.The Bill mandates that in the absence of both ...
27 July 2026 Indian ExpressThe BJP government tabled 28 long-pending CAG reports in the Assembly on Saturday and said a special session would be convened to discuss them, alleging the previous TMC dispensation committed a “constitutional lapse” by not placing them in the ...
26 July 2026 Indian ExpressHinting at an increased number of Assembly seats if the Centre’s proposed Delimitation Bill is passed, Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari asked Speaker Rathindra Bose to find land for a new Assembly house.Addressing the budget session’s vote of thanks, Adhikari ...
26 July 2026 Indian ExpressTMC chief Mamata Banerjee on Saturday joined a protest in Kolkata in support of students agitating over the NEET paper leak issue after the Calcutta High Court refused permission for the Trinamool Chhatra Parishad’s (TMCP) proposed rally, with the ...
26 July 2026 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari said the state had, for the first time, invoked its newly enacted anti-goonda law against those accused of orchestrating violence during Friday’s NEET protest, warning they would face punishment “their next three generations ...
26 July 2026 Indian ExpressWritten by Sweety Kumari & Arghya ChakravortyMassive crowds gripped central Kolkata on Friday as the nationwide student agitation over exam paper leaks spilled onto the city’s roads. As agitators marched in the afternoon, clashes erupted in Esplanade, with the ...
26 July 2026 Indian ExpressBengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari Saturday took a dig at Abhishek Banerjee over his Sebaashray health camps and warned that the government will take appropriate action at the right time.Making a statement in the Assembly, Adhikari said several FIRs ...
26 July 2026 Indian ExpressBengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari Saturday condemned the violence witnessed a day earlier in Kolkata during the Left-led students’ march seeking the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over exam paper leaks.Speaking at the Assembly, the chief minister ...
26 July 2026 Indian ExpressWritten by Antoreep DasThe India Meteorological Department (IMD) Friday issued a warning of heavy to very heavy rain across parts of southern West Bengal till July 27, and said thunderstorms, lightning, and gusty winds are expected to affect several ...
26 July 2026 Indian ExpressBengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari Friday warned state officials against engaging in corruption and other malpractices, announcing the suspension on X of two motor vehicle inspectors for allegedly harassing transporters to extort money.Attaching the suspension order with the post, ...
26 July 2026 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday directed the police to seek capital punishment for the gateman for his “extreme negligence and human error” that claimed the lives of five individuals, including four school children, in last week’s ...
25 July 2026 Indian ExpressThe Kolkata wing of Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) has sought police permission to hold a rally in response to the outfit’s call for a nationwide protest on Friday. Meanwhile, the Students Federation of India (SFI) has also planned a ...
25 July 2026 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal government has started verifying birth and death certificates following allegations that they were issued indiscriminately during the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll when the Trinamool Congress was in power.“We have received ...
25 July 2026 Indian ExpressDaily commuters across Kolkata are set for a major convenience boost as Metro Railway Kolkata announced a significant expansion in train services on both the Blue Line (North-South) and Green Line (East-West). Starting July 27 on an experimental basis, ...
24 July 2026 Indian ExpressA day after a massive turnout at Mamata Banerjee’s Martyrs’ Day meet near the Birla Planetarium in Kolkata, the police on Wednesday registered a case against the Trinamool Congress for blocking the road in violation of a Calcutta High ...
24 July 2026 Indian ExpressA film-style “kidnapping” to get back the money loaned to a person ended in the arrest of six persons in Nadia district of West Bengal. According to Bidhannagar Police, 39-year-old Ankan Saha, an IT employee, had borrowed Rs 78 ...
24 July 2026 Indian ExpressThe death toll in the Sikkim tunnel blast rose to 22 on Wednesday night as the search and rescue operation for the trapped people continued for the third consecutive day on Wednesday.At least three more people are believed to ...
23 July 2026 Indian ExpressFoiling a major wildlife trafficking bid, the Customs officials at Kolkata’s Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) Airport on Wednesday seized 707 red-eared slider turtles (Trachemys scripta elegans) from a Chennai-based passenger who arrived from Bangkok.Customs officials said a ...
23 July 2026 Indian ExpressA fresh controversy has erupted within the Trinamool Congress (TMC) after party MP Kalyan Banerjee publicly criticised party chief Mamata Banerjee and Abhishek Banerjee Wednesday, a day after a showdown with her at the Martyrs Day rally.However, the Sreempore ...
23 July 2026 Indian ExpressHigh drama unfolded near Kolkata’s RDB building on Tuesday evening when a car swiftly halted next to a 39-year-old tech professional, who was trying to start his motorcycle after work. A few young men got out, forced him into ...
23 July 2026 Indian ExpressEight more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Kolkata as hospitals report an uptick in cases of coronavirus and influenza amid a seasonal surge in viral infections across West Bengal. Pulmonologists and critical care specialists have reassured the ...
23 July 2026 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) Wednesday summoned former Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Subhasish Chakraborty to its Kolkata office for questioning next week in connection with an ongoing money laundering probe into party funds.Chakraborty currently serves as the treasurer for the ...
23 July 2026 Indian ExpressTrinamool Congress (TMC) MP Abhishek Banerjee sent a legal notice late Tuesday evening to West Bengal MLA Madan Mitra, demanding an unconditional public apology and Rs 10 crore in damages for allegedly making defamatory remarks on social media.The ...
23 July 2026 Indian ExpressTo the onlookers on the busy Naihati–Ashoknagar Road on Sunday morning, she looked like just any ordinary commuter going about her day. Dressed in a simple cotton salwar suit, a scarf on her head, a jute bag in one ...
22 July 2026 Indian ExpressThe Trinamool Congress’s (TMC) Martyrs’ Day stage in front of the Birla Planetarium in Kolkata was allegedly vandalised late Monday night, prompting party leader Mamata Banerjee and senior leaders to camp overnight at the site. The stage was rebuilt ...
22 July 2026 Indian ExpressFormer West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has said that, if needed, she will personally take part in the protest organised by the Cockroach Janta Party in the national capital.She was speaking at the 21 July Martyrs’ Day event, ...
22 July 2026 Indian ExpressThe Bengali language will be mandatory at all levels of government in West Bengal from September 1, Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari announced in the Legislative Assembly on Monday.CM Adhikari informed the Assembly that Bengali will be the primary medium ...
22 July 2026 Indian ExpressUnion Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday laid the foundation stone virtually for the world’s largest curd production plant while slamming the previous TMC government for stalling the entry of Gujarat-based dairy cooperative Amul into the state.Part of the ...
21 July 2026 Indian ExpressIn a rare surgical feat, doctors at the state-run SSKM Hospital have successfully removed a 23-cm-long ‘true human tail’ from a 13-year-old boy, a congenital anomaly the health department claims is the longest documented operated case of its kind ...
21 July 2026 Indian ExpressA breath analyser test has now revealed that the gateman arrested over Friday’s train accident in Murshidabad was not intoxicated, sources said Sunday. Three schoolchildren and a senior citizen died Friday when a train rammed a school van and ...
21 July 2026 Indian ExpressThe Bengal Police arrested the prime suspect in the Rajarhat bomb blast case late Saturday evening.The accused, identified as Md Shamim, had recently taken the room on rent where a crude bomb set off on Friday, damaging the four-storey ...
21 July 2026 Indian ExpressFears of a seasonal spike in coronavirus cases have resurfaced in West Bengal after a 10-year-old boy was hospitalised with Covid-19 and secondary pneumonia. The child, a resident of Kolkata’s Garia neighbourhood, had been suffering from a high fever, ...
20 July 2026 Indian ExpressFor the first time since a wave of defections and dissidence hit the Trinamool Congress following its defeat in the West Bengal Assembly elections two months ago, party national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday dared the rebels to ...
20 July 2026 Indian ExpressWritten by Subhosree ModakThe India Meteorological Department (IMD) in West Bengal on Saturday issued an extremely heavy rainfall warning for the northern districts of Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Jalpaiguri, Alipurduar, and Coochbehar until Sunday. The regions have been issued an Orange alert ...
20 July 2026 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal governor’s office has lodged a complaint with the Kolkata police, alleging that an unknown individual was impersonating Governor R N Ravi and making phone calls to senior officials, dignitaries, and others.In a letter to the deputy ...
19 July 2026 Indian ExpressStudents of Classes 9 to 12 in West Bengal government schools will soon receive training in digital content creation, with the state government deciding to set up Digital Content Creator Labs in 500 schools over the next five years. ...
19 July 2026 Indian ExpressThe South 24 Parganas district administration on Saturday started demolishing the party office of TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee in Amtala after it was found to be constructed allegedly without an approved building plan and in violation of applicable rules, ...
19 July 2026 Indian ExpressForty-eight hours of anxiety finally came to an end after Howrah resident and state-level shooter Damayanti Sen, 15, got reunited with her family on Saturday after being missing for two days.She was reportedly traced to the Ramakrishna Ghat area ...
19 July 2026 Indian ExpressThe Eastern Railway on Friday said the gateman of the railway crossing involved in the Murshidabad tragedy has been arrested. This comes after five people, including three school students, died after a passenger train collided with a school van crossing ...
18 July 2026 Indian ExpressA preliminary investigation by the Eastern Railway into the Murshidabad train accident on Friday has ruled out any glitch in the signaling system in Friday morning’s horrific train accident in Murshidabad, pinning the blame entirely on “human error” and ...
18 July 2026 Indian ExpressState-level rifle shooter Damayanti Sen, 15, went missing on Thursday in West Bengal’s Howrah district.According to the family of the teenager, a resident of Central Howrah, she had gone to buy milk from a shop near her home on ...
18 July 2026 Indian ExpressReiterating the state government’s decision to involve ISKCON in the school midday meal programme, Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday said that the organisation has had the experience of ensuring quality nutrition for children and that the government hopes ...
18 July 2026 Indian ExpressFour school students and a senior citizen died after a passenger train rammed a school van crossing railway tracks in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district early on Friday.Four others, including the van’s driver, were critically injured in the incident, which ...
18 July 2026 Indian ExpressRaising concerns over what he termed “tremendous radicalisation” in some districts of West Bengal, state BJP president Samik Bhattacharya drew parallels with neighbouring Bangladesh, saying that this year’s Durga Puja will be celebrated peacefully and vowed to restore the ...
18 July 2026 Indian ExpressUnion Home Minister Amit Shah will undertake a three-day visit to West Bengal from July 17 to 19, during which he is scheduled to inspect border security installations, chair meetings on governance and law and order, and inaugurate multiple ...
18 July 2026 Indian ExpressIn another blow to the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress, actor Koel Mallick resigned as the party’s Rajya Sabha MP on Thursday, just three months after the party nominated her to the Upper House of Parliament. Koel Mallick is Trinamool’s ...
17 July 2026 Indian ExpressIn a chilling incident near Kolkata, a 16-year-old schoolgirl was stabbed to death in Howrah, allegedly by a man who had been stalking her despite the teenager spurning his advances. The Class 10 student was followed and attacked while ...
17 July 2026 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed the state to inform TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee about the number of complaints pending against him in various police stations across the state.Abhishek had moved the Calcutta High Court, seeking relief from ...
17 July 2026 Indian ExpressAs one after another, Mamata Banerjee’s closest aides abandoned her – the latest being Madan Mitra – the Trinamool Congress chief on Wednesday asserted that she would rebuild the party as she did in 2004.Hours after Madan Mitra joined ...
17 July 2026 Indian ExpressBy Antoreep DasNearly a decade after she disappeared while stepping out to buy flowers for Lord Jagannath during Rath Yatra, an elderly woman from Odisha is set to reunite with her family, thanks to the efforts of a government-run senior ...
17 July 2026 Indian ExpressAfter skipping two appearances, Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday appeared before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bidhannagar court, in Kolkata to record his voice sample in connection with a case related to his remark on DJs playing music ...
16 July 2026 Indian ExpressFor the first time in 15 years, Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress will not be observing the July 21 Martyrs’ Day rally in front of the Victoria House at Esplanade. Instead, the Mamata-led faction will be holding the annual rally ...
16 July 2026 Indian ExpressThe Centre has allocated Rs 1000 crore for laying 2400 km of rural roads in the state under the PM Gram Sadak Yojna and sanctioned the construction of one lakh houses under the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana, Chief Minister ...
16 July 2026 Indian ExpressMadan Mitra, one of Mamata Banerjee’s oldest and closest associates, who stood by her even before the formation of the Trinamool Congress, joined the rebel faction led by Ritabrata Banerjee Wednesday.The move comes a day after the Enforcement Directorate ...
16 July 2026 Indian ExpressChief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday set a target of planting 10 crore saplings this year to protect the state’s environment, while citing the examples of Yogi Adityanath’s Uttar Pradesh and Amit Shah’s Lok Sabha constituency in Gujarat.“If the Chief ...
16 July 2026 Indian ExpressIn a major relief from Kolkata’s traffic, a new infrastructural initiative has been proposed by the administration: the Kolkata Ring Road Project. Part of the state urban development department’s six-month action plan, this massive corridor is aimed at revolutionising ...
16 July 2026 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday set a target of planting 10 crore saplings this year to protect the state’s environment, while citing the examples of Yogi Adityanath’s Uttar Pradesh and Amit Shah’s Lok Sabha constituency in ...
15 July 2026 Indian ExpressKolkata is officially set to join the elite club of Indian cities operating driverless metro trains. Following in the footsteps of Delhi and Bengaluru, the Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS) has cleared Kolkata Metro’s Green Line (East-West Corridor) to ...
15 July 2026 Indian ExpressMore than Rs 2 crore in cash was recovered from an apartment in New Town, near Kolkata, following a raid on Monday that led to the arrest of seven people, including a woman, for allegedly running a hawala racket.Acting ...
15 July 2026 Indian ExpressThe delimitation exercise has begun in West Bengal for the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC). The exercise would add 56 wards to the civic body. The exercise could reshape the city’s demographic balance and reshaping political equations ahead of the ...
15 July 2026 Indian ExpressPolice in South 24 Parganas district have recovered the bodies of nine fishermen from a trawler that capsized in the Bay of Bengal near the Sundarbans earlier this month.Teams from Gobardhanpur police station, along with the forest department and ...
15 July 2026 Indian ExpressThe Madhyamik examination, the centralised board examination for Class X conducted by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE), for next year will be held from February 15 to February 25.According to the statement issued by the board ...
15 July 2026 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Police on Monday arrested Tirthankar Ghosh, the son of former Trinamool Congress MLA Nirmal Ghosh, from the Dakhineswar area in connection with two criminal cases against him.Tirthankar, who ran as the Trinamool candidate in the 2026 ...
14 July 2026 Indian ExpressBy Subhosree ModakThe India Meteorological Department has escalated its warnings by issuing a critical red alert for the sub-Himalayan West Bengal due to an active monsoon trough and an upper air cyclonic circulation drawing massive moisture from the Bay ...
14 July 2026 Indian ExpressAuthorities have suspended prayers suspended for the past four days at a 136-year-old mosque located inside the high-security zone of Kolkata’s Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, after aviation security officials objected to civilian access across active aircraft taxiways ...
14 July 2026 Indian ExpressThe Bengal government Monday announced a slew of measures for the upcoming Rath Yatra festival, including a grant of Rs 5 lakh each to Rath Yatra committees in the state.The government has also decided to set up seva kendras ...
14 July 2026 Indian ExpressFor decades, the rhythmic clanging and old-world charm of the tram has been synonymous with Kolkata. As services shrank to irregular runs on just two operational routes—Shyambazar to Esplanade (Route No. 5) and Gariahat to Esplanade via Mullick Bazar ...
14 July 2026 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Police arrested CPI(M) leader Mohammad Lahek Ali Sunday night for allegedly inciting violence in the wake of the rape and murder of a minor girl in Baruipur, taking the number of arrests in the case to ...
14 July 2026 Indian ExpressThe police arrested two more people on Saturday in connection with the incident in which a mob lynched a man after a minor girl’s body was found in a pond at Baruipur in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district ...
13 July 2026 Indian ExpressAmid severe public outrage and intense political turmoil across West Bengal following the brutal rape and murder of a minor girl in Baruipur, the Kolkata Police has issued strict guidelines to overhaul the processing of ‘Zero FIRs’ in the ...
13 July 2026 Indian ExpressRebel Trinamool Congress leader Ritabrata Banerjee claimed Sunday that the TMC faction led by him, the ‘Ritabrata-TMC’, is the real TMC, while citing a purported court order. However, the Mamata Banerjee camp said it was only an interim order ...
13 July 2026 Indian ExpressDays after the rape and murder of a Class VI student in Baruipur, a woman in her 30s has alleged that she was assaulted, her head partially shaven and tied to a lamp post by a group of men ...
13 July 2026 Indian ExpressRobbers posing as police officers allegedly looted Rs 2 crore under the guise of a raid at a businessman’s office in South Kolkata on Friday, much like in the Bollywood movie Special 26.According to the police, the robbers introduced ...
13 July 2026 Indian Express“We do not want another Nandigram or Singur,” Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari said on Saturday as he announced the government’s decision to rely on direct purchase of land, rather than acquisition, for industrial needs. He also said that his government ...
13 July 2026 Indian ExpressIn a bid to strengthen its case before the Election Commission of India to stake claim on the Trinamool Congress symbol and funds, the Ritabrata Banerjee-led faction claimed to have drawn in several Mamata-loyalists into its fold, including former ...
13 July 2026 Indian ExpressChief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday refused to describe Indrajeet Mondal’s killing after the recovery of the 11-year-old girl’s body as lynching, saying his identity had been established before the “murder”. He also alleged that “those who lost the ...
12 July 2026 Indian Express38,000 cases cleared, 32 lakh pending.Since March end, when tribunals were set up in West Bengal to tackle cases of “logical discrepancies” after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise by the Election Commission was concluded, and long after the ...
12 July 2026 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Police on Friday froze 12 more bank accounts of the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC), a day after the party was allowed to partially operate three accounts with an alleged corpus of Rs 440 crore.Senior police ...
12 July 2026 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari Saturday met the families of the Baruipur rape-murder victim and the lynching victim while visiting the South 24 Parganas district to inaugurate a new police outpost.Handing over a cheque of Rs 25 lakh ...
12 July 2026 Indian ExpressWritten by Subhosree ModakA major milestone was etched into the history of the Kolkata Metro Railway on Friday as the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) ‘Durga’ successfully made a breakthrough at the under-construction Victoria Metro station around 10.30 am.This engineering ...
12 July 2026 Indian ExpressWritten by Subhosree ModakKolkata is bracing for a sustained spell of inclement weather between July 10 and July 15, as a favourable monsoon trough and strong moisture incursion from the Bay of Bengal have triggered widespread rain across the ...
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