The civic body has readied a plan to bury the mesh of dangling cables, which are an eyesore and a threat to public safety, and will start the relocation on two roads in south Calcutta.“A detailed pr...

The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation has decided to do what Calcutta is still undecided on — clearing the mess of overhead cables. Salt Lake’s civic custodian has decided to remove all overhead c...

Capital’s leading wholesale hub Upper Bazaar is a tinderbox waiting to happen, thanks to narrow roads and the tangle of overhead wires, Thursday night’s garments shop blaze taught firemen. State f...

Electricity and optical fibre cables passing through Kharkai bridge were damaged in a fire here on Saturday morning, disrupting power and landline telephone services in Adityapur. Sources said the c...

Bhutnath Mondal was busy cleaning a white bust at a dilapidated jetty on a dried up Damodar as the April sun was setting on a hazy horizon. The man in his mid-sixties completed cleaning, hung a banner...

Mayor Firhad Hakim’s seven-day ultimatum to pull down defunct cables is over but they continue to hang above roads.Hakim had said Alipore Road and Harish Mukherjee Road will be among the first to be...

Mayor Firhad Hakim on Monday told cable operators that he would not attend their programmes from next year if they did not remove the dead overhead cables.Hakim said at a meeting that he was making a ...

The hurdles faced by firefighters despatched to douse the flames that enveloped a Gariahat building early on Sunday included the aerial maze of cables that blight Calcutta’s skyline.Firefighters sai...

Underground cabling work carried out by Jharkhand Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited (JBVNL), which had badly damaged the 5.5km road connecting City Centre to Barwaddah, has laid bare the lack of coordination...

A senior citizen bends to escape getting caught in cables hanging low on Girish Avenue on Wednesday morning, three weeks after Cyclone Amphan brought down trees and wires across the city on May 20 eve...