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Cyclone Bulbul: WB's losses could reach Rs 19k cr
surveying the cyclone-hit areas.The final estimation will be.
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Babul Supriyo to visit cyclone-hit areas
Union Minister Babul Supriyo Tuesday said he has been asked by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit the cyclone-hit areas in West Bengal on Wednesday to look into the ground level situation.
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Kolkata Metro sees dip in littering, nuisance
Kolkata Metro charged Rs 77,005 as fine from passengers for littering inside trains and on the platforms. The Kolkata Metro registered as many as 293 nuisance cases.
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Guv gives assent to Vivekananda University Bill
West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar has accorded his assent to The Swami Vivekananda University Bill, 2019 passed by the West Bengal Legislative Assembly on September 1, 2019.
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Woman dies, kin ensure she lives on in 3 others
The organs of a 26-year-old brain-dead woman at RN Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences (RTIICS) were donated to three patients — two at the same hospital and one at SSKM Hospital — on Monday morning.
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Kolkata school bus crash: No fitness cert to ply
Yet another accident involving a minibus that was doubling as a schoolbus has laid bare what has been ailing the city for long — lack of basic safety measures. Seat belts and firstaid boxes that have been mandated by Supreme Court are not being used by most private school bus operators. Worse is the fact that the bus driver did was flouting traffic laws.
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Get dengue test results at KMC centres in an hr
Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) health department is set to clear doubts about dengue tests being done at its ward centres.
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Cyclone Bulbul: Air fares refuse to climb down
Air ticket prices continued to soar for the second day in a row — reaching the season’s record high — on Monday, more than 24 hours after the city airport resumed services following a 12-hour emergency shutdown for cyclone Bulbul’s landfall.
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10-day E-W Metro trial focus on failure drills
After glitch-free dummy runs, it’s time for trial runs with tailored glitches. On Friday, East-West Metro’s ready-to-launch elevated section started another round of service trials. But this time, it will be a prolonged 10-day trial with “failure drills” to identify the system’s preparedness against sudden malfunctions.
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At Kolkata cemetery, blatant loot of history
If you go visiting the Bhowanipore cemetery, be careful of where you tread. You could easily be stepping on a gravestone that’s 155 years old.
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Seniors sensitize juniors to vote judiciously
A section of seniors at Presidency University and Jadavpur University are running a students’ elections campaign with a twist. Instead of seeking support, they are sensitizing their juniors to vote judiciously.
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Polls after 2 yrs in JU, Presidency univ
A section of seniors at Presidency University and Jadavpur University are running a students’ elections campaign with a twist. Instead of seeking support, they are sensitizing their juniors to vote judiciously.
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Kol: Polls after 2 yrs in JU, Presidency univ
A section of seniors at Presidency University and Jadavpur University are running a students’ elections campaign with a twist. Instead of seeking support, they are sensitizing their juniors to vote judiciously.
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Kol: 24 students, parents hurt in school bus crash
A private school bus ferrying school kids and their parents to a north Kolkata school rammed a parked van, hit a pedestrian, crashed into a traffic post and finally keeled over to come to stop at the PK Mukherjee Road-Cossipore Road crossing on Monday morning.
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24 students, parents hurt in school bus crash
A private school bus ferrying school kids and their parents to a north Kolkata school rammed a parked van, hit a pedestrian, crashed into a traffic post and finally keeled over to come to stop at the PK Mukherjee Road-Cossipore Road crossing on Monday morning.
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Erratic undersea currents prompt ban on swimming
Unpredictable underwater currents in the immediate aftermath of cyclone Bulbul have prompted the East Midnapore administration to enforce a two-day ban on swimming in Digha and Mandarmani.
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Cyclone Bulbul: Bodies of 4 fishermen found
Bodies of four out of the nine fishermen who went missing after their trawler capsized off Mousuni Island in West Bengal under the impact of Cyclone Bulbul were recovered in a joint operation by the Indian Coast Guard and the NDRF, a senior Coast Guard officer said Monday.
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Cyclone Bulbul: WB CM conducts aerial survey
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday conducted an aerial survey of areas affected by Cyclone Bulbul that wreaked havoc in the state over the weekend.
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West Bengal govt owes Rs 46cr to BSNL: Official
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) claimed that the West Bengal government owed Rs 46 crore to the telecom operator and also urged the state to expedite the payment as it has been facing cash crunch.
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Kolkata: Dengue patients double in two weeks
The number of people affected by dengue across the state has almost doubled over the past fortnight, according to figures released at a health department review meeting on Saturday. According to the last review meeting held on October 24, as many as 23,000 had been affected by the disease till then. The figure now stands at 44,000.
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Kharagpur woman gives birth, names boy Bulbul
A third-year geography student weathered a cyclone to give birth to a baby boy, Bulbul, named after the storm that made landfall on Saturday even as she brought him into the world.
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Cyclone Bulbul: 10 dead, 4.6 lakh affected in WB
Cyclone Bulbul veered towards Bangladesh early on Sunday and steadily lost strength but left a trail of death and destruction in Bengal, claiming at least nine lives spread over three districts. According to late evening reports, as many as 4.6 lakh people were affected and 60,000 houses damaged. The toll, officials feared, could rise further: eight fishermen on board trawler MV Chandrani, which capsized off Mousuni, an island in the Bay of Bengal, are still missing.
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Bulbul: Pilots at Sagar Island help evacuees
Nearly 200 people from nearby villages took shelter at the pilotage station of Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) on Sagar Island even as Cyclone Bulbul made landfall around 8.30 pm on Saturday
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Netaji Nagar cops look for couple after job fraud
The Netaji Nagar police on Saturday started a probe based on a complaint that a couple has been cheating people by posing as representatives of a prominent online job portal. According to the 22-year-old complainant, who is a Netaji Nagar resident, the duo had approached him citing the online job portal to offer him a job of an associate with a Bengaluru-headquartered IT major.
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Woman takes Rs 3L loan to look after street dog
A homemaker in Nadia’s Kalyani has taken a personal bank loan of Rs 3.3 lakh and sold her jewellery worth Rs 2 lakh against the wish of her husband all for the sake of his love for street dogs. Nilanjana Biswas (45) feeds, treats and arranges vaccination for 400 street dogs and she does all this by herself.
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Four held for robbery at Habra BDO bungalow
Four persons were arrested on Sunday in connection with the robbery at the official bungalow of the block development officer (BDO) of Habra in North 24 Parganas.
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Kolkata airport turns disabled-friendly
From disabled friendly toilets and tactile studs at floors to low-height flight information display and wheelchair friendly help desks, Kolkata airport has decked itself up with a slew of amenities for passengers with reduced mobility, days after they were criticised following an alleged case of harassment against two prominent disability rights activists at the airport last month.
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Inundated fields trigger veggie price-rise fear
The cyclonic rain played havoc with Bengal crops, especially potatoes, and farmers have become anxious of heavy loss because of delayed harvesting and sowing. Though a section of consumers feared the delay in harvesting might lead to a spike in vegetable prices at city markets, experts said it was too early to say that. On Sunday, farms across Hooghly and Burdwan were found submerged under 6-11inches of water. While vegetable crops may rot, there is likely to be at least a fortnight’s dela
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Endangered deer born in Alipore zoo named Bulbul
Amid the gloom in the wake of cyclone Bulbul, the city has a reason to cheer. The Alipore Zoological Gardens welcomed a new guest — an endangered sangai or Manipuri dancing deer — on Saturday, the day the cyclone made landfall in Bengal. The zoo authorities have named the fawn, which was born around 7am on Saturday, Bulbul.
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Cyclone Bulbul: Mamata to conduct aerial survey
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will make an aerial survey of the severe cyclone Bulbul hit areas around Namkhana and Bakkhali in South 24 Parganas district on Monday, she announced on twitter.
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Four drunken youths assault Kolkata hosp doctors
Four persons hailing from Burtolla were arrested by the RG Kar Hospital police for allegedly assaulting and threatening the doctors and staff on duty at the transitional care unit (TCU) on Saturday.
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4 drunken youths assault Kolkata hosp doctors
Four persons hailing from Burtolla were arrested by the RG Kar Hospital police for allegedly assaulting and threatening the doctors and staff on duty at the transitional care unit (TCU) on Saturday.
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Kolkata cops to use body cameras during raids
Come December, detective department investigating officers will be seen conducting raids and recording witness statements wearing body cameras. Lalbazar is set to procure 100 body cameras for the department, after which a short training will begin.
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Fence along Maa flyover to tackle manja menace
The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) is working on plans to put up fences on both sides of Maa flyover, specially on the southern flank, to prevent alloy-coated kite strings from injuring bikers. KMDA sources said that an agency recently proposed such a fence with polycarbonate sheet.
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Auto driver molests woman in Kolkata
A 20-year-old woman has alleged that early on Saturday she and her boyfriend were attacked by an auto driver in Tiljala when they were returning home. The woman claimed that the auto driver even molested her.
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19 more Bowbazar residents back home
Nineteen more Bowbazar residents, who were displaced because of the East-West Metro tunnelling disaster, returned home on Saturday.
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Cyclone Bulbul may expedite Sagar erosion: Experts
The aftermath of Cyclone Bulbul threatened to accelerate coastal erosion of Sagar Island, something, which might make the Kapil Muni ashram, situated close to the coast, vulnerable yet again, experts and district officials feared
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WB: Thousands shifted before Bulbul landfall
Bengal’s coastline stretching over 3,500km in the Sunderbans and 79km from Digha to Khejuri in East Midnapore remained on tenterhooks throughout Saturday as heavy rain, accompanied by strong winds, lashed the shores, villages, beaches and towns ahead of Cyclone Bulbul’s landfall on Sagar Island at 8.30pm.
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Kol goes indoors as wind blows at 50-70kmph
The city was pounded by steady rain accompanied by strong winds as cyclone Bulbul approached land, finally hitting Sagar Island around 8.30pm and then swerving northeast towards Khepupara in Bangladesh.
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Odisha: Bulbul brings heavy rain, uproots trees
Heavy rain accompanied by high-velocity winds, trigerred by very severe cyclonic storm 'Bulbul', lashed several parts of coastal Odisha on Saturday, uprooting trees and snapping road links.
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Niece planned Diamond Park robbery: Cops
Oindrilla Roy aka Tia attempted to rob her uncle Arup Das, a senior doctor at the School of Tropical Medicine residing at Diamond Park, only after meticulous planning with her friend Rupam Samaddar, who worked as a clerk in a local court.
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Death in China Town, locals allege civic apathy
Fear has gripped the China Town in Tangra, where a 24-year-old had died of dengue on Thursday evening. Locals complained of apathy on the part of civic authorities and said that many other persons in the area are suffering from fever.
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Salt Lake fountains sparks dengue panic
Stagnant water at decorative fountains has triggered dengue panic in Salt Lake and surrounding areas falling under Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC), where more than 750 people have been affected by dengue since January this year.
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3 get 5-yr jail for trafficking attempt in 2007
Three persons were sentenced to five-year imprisonment on Friday more than 12 years after they had abducted a minor girl from Kolkata and tried to sell her off.
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Habra BDO, wife robbed inside official bungalow
Five armed men raided a home in Habra early on Friday, woke up the man and his wife, tied and gagged them and fled with cash, jewellery and smart phones.
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Heavy rain, high winds likely to lash Kol today
The city remained cloudy and received intermittent drizzles on Friday as Cyclone Bulbul, which raged over the sea around 550km south of the city, approached the Bangladesh-Bengal coast at a speed of 13kmph. The showers got heavier late on Friday and are set to get more intense on Saturday as the cyclone approaches land.
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Kolkata: ‘Ignoring NGT orders adds to pollution’
Environmental crusaders on Friday blamed the spiralling pollution and plunging air quality on the non-compliance of National Green Tribunal (NGT) orders and furnished a 35-point report on the issue.
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WB: Surface repair plan for 5 bridges at month-end
The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) is set to take up the repair of the road surface of five bridges across the city—Dhakuria bridge, Bijon Setu, Karunamoyee bridge, Kamalgazi flyover and Sonarpur ROB—and uproot plants and weeds that have sprung up in the nooks and crannies of the structures.
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Friends, admirers send Nabaneeta on ‘subha yatra’
Even in death, she looked resplendent in a tussar maroon-and-black saree, the big, maroon bindi in place. Heaps of wreaths, flowers and garlands covered Nabaneeta Dev Sen as the world around her mourned her.
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NDRF deploys 34 teams in Bengal, Odisha
New Delhi, Nov 8 () The NDRF has stationed a total of 34 teams in West Bengal and Odisha in view of the approaching severe cyclone Bulbul, a senior official said Friday.
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