The East-West Metro authorities marked cracks on some of the buildings in Chaitan Sen Lane in Bowbazar on Thursday so that new ones can be identified if they develop when the tunnel-boring machine mov...

A tunnel-boring machine of East-West Metro that had been lying idle under Nirmal Chunder Street has moved for the first time since the project came to a halt following a subsidence in Bowbazar on Augu...

Several residents of houses “beyond repair” in Bowbazar have turned down offers from the East-West Metro authorities to shift to new rented apartments citing reasons such as inconvenient location ...

I was in central Calcutta’s Bowbazar area five days after 52 houses in the neighbourhood came crashing down because of the troubled East-West Metro tunnel boring operation. “Just imagine,” says ...

Durga Pituri Lane in Bowbazar was a picture of contrasts on Thursday.Paritosh Kar was ecstatic as he stepped into his jewellery workshop after 27 days, while Ananta Das who lived six buildings away in...

Demolition of crumbling buildings in Bowbazar has gained momentum because excavators and trucks are finally entering the narrow lanes, said John Endicott, the British engineer who is supervising repai...

Residents of a subsidence-hit neighbourhood in Bowbazar are struggling to keep their festive tradition alive and organise their Durga puja that started 58 years ago.The site of the pandal now under ru...

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The 100-odd traders who had their workshops in subsidence-hit Bowbazar lanes have refused to accept the Rs 50,000 that the East-West Metro authorities have offered ahead of the Puja as part of their c...

A Calcutta High Court division bench on Tuesday extended the order restraining the resumption of East-West Metro’s tunnel-boring work in the Bowbazar area till November 8.The division bench of Chief...