For several decades, goldsmiths of Bowbazar have preferred to work from an area close to where big jewellery showrooms are located on BB Ganguly Street. Since the disaster in May, almost all the gold...

A bystander, who does not want to be named, says, “Metro Railway has made everyone sign papers that say the residents have got back all their possessions, when actually the furniture and electri...

Several residents of Bowbazar's Durga Pituri Lane whose houses have been pulled down or identified as “severely damaged” following the East-West Metro tunnel disaster on May 11, said t...

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation will propose to Durga Pituri Lane residents whose houses may have to be pulled down that they allow their new homes to be built in one place instead of separately or ...

Kolkata Municipal Corporation had engaged the JU team in the aftermath of the May 11 collapse. On May 24, it submitted a preliminary report identifying nine buildings as “severely damaged&r...

A team from IIT Roorkee has sought a sample of the underground soil in Bowbazar from the Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC), the implementing agency of East-West Metro, to understand the reasons fo...

The owners of several houses on Durga Pituri Lane in central Kolkata’s Bowbazar, which have been labelled as ‘severely damaged’ by experts from Jadavpur University, said they we...

They anticipate that at some point in the future, disputes could arise over the valuation of the buildings that have been damaged. Questions of compensation amount would be linked to the age of the st...

Nine buildings in Bowbazar have been tagged as “severely damaged” by a team that assessed the stability of buildings in the area affected by subsidence caused by East-West Metro work earli...

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