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Calcutta Weather

	Temperature Min : 20.70°C (-3) Max : 24.70°C (-10)
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Today
Partly cloudy sky with possibility of rain/ thundershowers in some areas.

Delay conspires with disaster

Two hours and 45 minutes is the time the police disaster management team took to reach Kestopur as people died, trapped in the bus that fell into Lower Bagjola Canal on Friday afternoon.... | Read..

Lives lost & changed forever

The Mondol family of Atghara, in the interiors of Baguiati, had boarded the 217B bus from Babughat on Friday afternoon. Rahim... | Read..

Step by step, the save-the-passenger drive

For a long time, only the upturned wheels of the bus were visible. ... | Read..

A peril path called VIP Road

This is one stretch of asphalt where accidents have become a way of life — and death. Hardly a month passes by without blood ... | Read..

No-bail slap awaits driver

The driver of the bus that fell into the canal will be charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder. ... | Read..

‘It was suffocating... I thought I was going to die’

Metro caught up with those who suffered and saw... ... | Read..

Rag-tag band of rescuers

Unlike police, people dive in to save passengers

The sound of a sudden splash followed by the wails of a child alerted autorickshaw driver Joydeb Das to the tragedy. ... | Read..

AS IF DEEP IN SLEEP... ... | Read

What's on in town

Daily Horoscope

You share your birthday with...

Colin PowellFew people are as frank and sensitive as you are. You always analyse a situati ...Read..

Post-mishap melee clogs airport road

Friday’s accident near the Kestopur crossing triggered a massive traffic snarl on VIP Road. Vehicula... | Read..

Killer cuts survive
In September 2007, members of the Bengal Bus Syndicate — one of the promine... \| Read..