With 18% increase in passenger volume, CIAL launches more services 

[ad_1] Given the rising passenger volume in the domestic sector, Cochin International Airport Limited has introduced more services to Kolkata, Chandigarh, Varanasi, Raipur, Ranchi, and Lucknow. A press release said that the services had been introduced in the revised summer schedule...

When you are on vacation without a moment to relax

[ad_1] ‘In reality, vacations are anything but unoccupied.’ | Photo Credit: Illustrated by Allen Shaw My sister has been invited to a destination wedding in Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. The programme seemed eminently bucketlist-worthy. The hosts had planned excursions to...

Ramnath’s book of Urdu poetry Bas Yun Hi is a culmination of his fascination for the language and verse

[ad_1] Words rush into verse, tumble into rhyme and flow into poems. Ramnath could put pen to paper and come up with verse on any subject. After several years of wordplay, versification and journalling, the Chennai based multi-lingual chartered accountant,...

Kolkata building collapse: Toll rises to 10, two still missing; landowner held

[ad_1] Kolkata: Rescue workers on Tuesday evening recovered the body of another person from underneath the debris of the collapsed five-storey building in Kolkata’s Garden Reach area taking the toll to 10, a senior police officer said. Two more persons...

Mamata visits building collapse site in Kolkata

[ad_1] West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee (File PhotoI) Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday visited Garden Reach area in the city, where an under-construction building collapsed, leaving two persons dead and at least seven people injured....

Kolkata port readies for ₹800-cr upgrade

[ad_1] In an ambitious endeavour, Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port, Kolkata (SMPK), plans to reconstruct and mechanise two container berths at the Netaji Subhash Dock of the Kolkata Dock System (KDS) within two years.SMPK aims to award the ₹800-plus crore public-private...

TMC to launch mass outreach programme to counter BJP’s CAA narratives

[ad_1] TMC chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee speaks during a rally ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in Kolkata on Sunday (PTI Photo) Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress will launch a mass outreach programme in West Bengal to...

PM Modi unveils India’s first underwater metro in Kolkata

[ad_1] Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday unveiled multiple metro projects across the country, including India's first underwater metro line in Kolkata.The ₹4,965-crore Howrah Maidan-Esplanade section of Kolkata Metro's East-West Corridor, which has the first transportation tunnel "under any mighty...