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| The soil beneath more than 60 per cent of Calcutta faces a significant hazard of liquefaction, a process that can put buildings at risk of damage or collapse during earthquakes, a study has found.... | Read.. |
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| Calcutta airport has an inline baggage screening system but not where it is needed the most: the much busier domestic wing.... | Read.. |
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| If you live anywhere near Salt Lake stadium, don't light a firecracker this Diwali or you could have the pollution police knocking on your door.... | Read.. |
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| A 26-year-old woman darting across an unmanned intersection near the Sector V fire station on Monday morning was fatally hit by a bus she either did not see coming or whose speed she misjudged.... | Read.. |
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| A private bus hit a Tata 407 on the Howrah-bound flank of Vidyasagar Setu on Monday evening, the mini truck crashing into the base of the median divider on impact and uprooting a lamp post.... | Read.. |
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| Asit Sil can feel the calluses on his fingers from hours of playing the sitar but still won't use a plectrum.... | Read.. |
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| The Calcutta Municipal Corporation will send daily reports to the councillors of all 144 wards about potential mosquito-breeding sites in their wards that civic health workers have failed to access.... | Read.. |
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| Three persons, including a Class VII student, died of fever on Monday in and around Deganga in North 24-Parganas, where thousands are down with fever.... | Read.. |
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| A bridal collection of a set of 76 lehenga-cholis, worth around Rs 13 lakh and fraudulently obtained from a trader in Burrabazar before Durga Puja, has found its way to a store near Charminar in Hy...... | Read.. |
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| Students must have at least 60 per cent attendance to be able to contest polls for the position of class representatives, education minister Partha Chatterjee told college principals on Monday.... | Read.. |
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| Education minister Partha Chatterjee on Monday asked the principals of colleges to ensure that posters and banners are not put up indiscriminately on the campus.... | Read.. |
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| The monsoon has retreated from the city, weather officials said on Monday, but that won't come in the way of a rainy Diwali.... | Read.. |
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| An autorickshaw driver and a woman he was ferrying died on Sunday night after the three-wheeler collided with a sand-laden lorry on National Highway 6 near Bagnan in Howrah.... | Read.. |
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| 56 million Indians suffer from depression... | Read.. |
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| The west-bound flank of Circus Avenue was closed on Monday to allow construction of the last ramp of the Parama flyover. The stretch had earlier been closed to traffic in mid-May but was opened dur...... | Read.. |
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| The National Green Tribunal today passed an order allowing Chhath rituals at Rabindra Sarobar one last time this year but issued a series of restrictions, including a ban on crackers and flowers on...... | Read.. |
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| A man in his early 30s died after he got electrocuted at a market adjoining Diamond Harbour station on Monday.... | Read.. |
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| An explicit remark on social media can catch attention of cyber cops... | Read.. |
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| A mobile phone app that updates parents about all that is happening in class and allows them to communicate with teachers and the administration. Seems unreal? Well, not anymore. A city school has ...... | Read.. |
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| Science institutes in the city got a thumbs up recently from the chief of one of the world's mega science projects, Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Germany.... | Read.. |
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| An elderly man died after being pushed by members of a Howrah club who turned on him for refusing to pay the Rs 1,001 they had demanded as "subscription" for Kali Puja yesterday morning.... | Read.. |
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| A youth accidentally fired an airgun he had recently procured and injured a friend sitting beside him in Basanti, South 24-Parganas, on Saturday night.... | Read.. |
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