With two more bodies fished out of the Hooghly river, the toll in the trawler capsize mishap rose to 83 on Thursday.Meanwhile, fishermen spotted a piece of wood floating in the middle of the river on Wednesday evening near Chakfuldubi village bearing the trawler's name 'Ma Durga'. They pulled it to Majarchar village and informed the authorities. The police on Thursday morning reached the spot with a launch and divers to determine if it was indeed the elusive trawler.
The death toll in the trawler capsize in Hooghly river shot up to 69 on Monday night with 28 bodies retrieved from the waters, even as search for 43 others missing was suspended for the night due to inclement weather and strong currents.
Sixteen more bodies were found during search operations on Monday, taking the toll to 41 in the trawler capsize mishap near Talpatty island in the Hooghly river in South 24 Parganas district. "Sixteen more bodies were recovered, but the toll is likely to rise as there is a possibility of recovering more bodies," said South 24 Parganas District Magistrate N S Nigam.
There will be total of 51 seats going to polls spread across 7 states in the fifth phase.
The New Delhi-Howrah Rajdhani Express was at a slow speed while it was passing through a platform of the Baruipara station, around 27 km from Kolkata, when two front wheels of the engine jumped the tracks, Eastern Railway CPRO Samir Goswami told PTI.
She said Indian Railways had taken up a large number of projects, many of which had been completed and that was why the railway published its success stories through advertisements.
Dhankhar has often crossed swords with the Trinamool Congress government over a host of issues in the past one year.
'What did we get out of this agitation? Nothing... Now we feel it was all a mistake. We have no work, and our land has turned infertile. We are living in abject poverty'
With the two teams arriving in Kolkata in the next 48 hours, all roads in the 'City of Joy' lead to the Eden.
Centre might move swiftly on its next round of strategic sales in CPSEs
Once a reviled practice in the state, both the parties seem to have endorsed a record number of turncoats this time -- triggering a wave of discontentment among their loyalists.
'With sufficient gaps between polling dates, the BJP will have time to convert the 'fence-sitter' votes,' observes Payal Mohanka.
Six-year-old Rupsa Sheikh is in a state of shock and has stopped speaking after her mother Salma died in the train derailment in West Midnapore district.
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Bengal govt invokes Acquisition Act to buy land for railways near Singur.
Domestic water supply isn't billed in Kolkata. The Hooghly river is the primary source and there's no supply crisis looming. But most of Kolkata's water connections have no apparatus for volumetric measurement.
In the hot Kolkata sun, on the banks of the Hooghly river, craftsmen from Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE) swarm over what will be the Indian Navy's most high-tech stealth warship. For GRSE, the navy's order for four anti-submarine warfare (ASW) corvettes is its flagship project. But Project 28, as it is termed, is two years behind schedule.The first corvette was to join the fleet early next year. However, it will be delivered only in June 2012.
Jayanta Roy Chowdhury reports on how the West Bengal elections are being fought by the BJP and Trinalool Congress amid COVID challenges, 'Bangaliana', and campaigns based on religion, region, and caste.
Officer in-charge of Sheoraphuli GRP S Bhattacharya said that it was prima facie a case of suicide by Arindam Manna. Manna's relatives, however, suspect foul play in the incident.
Party leaders are being forced to bite the tongue while answering queries on cut money and alleged arrogance of local TMC leaders.
The TMC expects to emerge victorious by way of a majority of minority votes and a minority of majority votes, notes Arun Bhatnagar, a retired IAS officer.
The unnatural death of GRP sub-inspector Arindam Manna who had first inquired into the death of Rizwanur Rehman, would not hinder the case of the computer graphics teacher, CBI officials claimed here today.
An unspecified number of people were evacuated from coastal areas of Odisha where Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Bhadrak and Balasore were likely to experience heavy rainfall accompanied by high-velocity winds, particularly on May 19 and 20, IMD Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said.
Kolkata, the first Indian city to get a metro railway network, will set another precedent by having an underwater rail connection. The Union cabinet on Thursday approved the much-awaited extension of the Kolkata metro with its neighbouring city Howrah, which will include a tunnel under the Hooghly river.The project, estimated to cost Rs 4,676 crore, will connect one of the busiest railway stations of eastern India, Howrah, and the information technology suburb of Salt Lake.
The combined Left parties drew a blank in the polls to the assembly which they had run with an overwhelming majority for 34 long years, with their vote share dwindling to a mere 5.47 per cent in 2021.
TMC on a roll, wins 13 out of 17 zilla parishads in WB
Of the three options suggested by the consultancy firm appointed by the CPI(M) government, Nayachar was feasible since it was government land, Commerce and Industry Minister Nirupam Sen said at an all-party meeting.
Never before in the history of the Republic has an election in the state mattered so much as it does now, observes Virendra Kapoor.
Bird flu spread to new blocks in Murshidabad and Nadia districts even as culling operations continued at a tardy pace in five other affected districts on Wednesday.
'They have a voracious appetite.' 'But there are many places where they go and they lose.'
The Congress leader said she would lodge a complaint with the cyber cell of Delhi Police.
At least 12 pilgrims from Jharkhand were killed and 13 others injured when a truck hit a stranded bus on Durgapur Expressway at Chanditala in Hooghly district early Wednesday, the police said.
Poultry deaths due to the dreaded bird flu reached over 1.18 lakh in West Bengal on Thursday as the culling operations were sped up with teams fanning out to three more districts.
The iconic bridge was opened to the public in the middle of World War II.
"I cannot tell Ratan Tata to go back", the West Bengal chief minister said while speaking at the annual general meeting of Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Kolkata.
Government officials working overtime to dismantle the Tata plant and return land to farmers, says Ishita Ayan Dutt.
We may be witnessing a slow erosion of the democratic republic and the emergence of the police State, warns Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
The 37-year-old labourer Srikanta Shee hanged himself from a guava tree in the compound of his house at Gopalnagar-Sonapara at around 2 am, Officer-in-Charge of Singur police station Priyabrata Bakshi said.
There were no casualties; a part of the wall was damaged.
Days after two of the Reliance's ready-to-be launched stores were damaged by diverse political groups, one of the outlets at the Uttarpara area of the Hooghly district was covered with Trinamool flags and posters, with no signs of police protection.
