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3 [1][2][3] On 9 August 2024, a 31-year-old female postgraduate trainee doctor [4] at R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, was raped and murdered in a college building. Her body was found in a seminar room on campus. On 10 August 2024, a 33-year-old male civic volunteer working for Kolkata Police was arrested ...
This incident was the third bridge collapse in Kolkata in six years. [7] On 4 March 2013, part of a flyover in Ultadanga had also collapsed. [7] On 31 March 2016, part of an under-construction flyover had collapsed in central Kolkata's busy Girish Park area. [9] [7] 27 people had died in the tragedy, leaving 80 people gravely injured. [10]
India's iconic tramcars set to ride into Kolkata sunset. October 1, 2024 at 7:30 PM. Kolkata's trams have declined from 52 routes in the 1970s to 25 in 2015. Now they run on just three routes [AFP]
Kolkata, [ a ] also known as Calcutta[ b ] (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, 80 km (50 mi) west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary financial and commercial centre of eastern and northeastern India. [ 16 ]
The Kolkata Metro is a rapid transit system serving the city of Kolkata and the Kolkata Metropolitan Region in West Bengal, India. Opened in 1984, it was the first operational rapid transit system in India. Besides, it's also the second busiest and fourth-longest metro network in the country.
Gobinda Chandra Khatick Road (formerly Hughes Road) is a famous thoroughfare in the city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India. [3] [4] The road runs past Grace Ling Liang Church, Tangra Police Station, and largely through the China Town areas of Tangra in East Kolkata and crosses Pulin Khatik Road and Christopher Road at separate intersections.
The bazaar is named after Edoardo Tiretta, [7] an Italian immigrant from Venice, who was a land surveyor and owner in the area during late 18th-century. [8]During the time of Warren Hastings, the first governor-general of British India, a businessman by the name of Tong Achew established a sugar mill, along with a sugar plantation at Achipur, 33 kilometres (21 mi) from Calcutta, on the bank of ...
New Town (a.k.a. Rajarhat New Town) is a planned Satellite city of Kolkata located in both North 24 Parganas and South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is administered by NKDA (New Town Kolkata Development Authority). [4] New Town is declared as a "Solar City" and "Smart Green City" by Government of India.