Voluntary organisations and NGOs gave a memorandum to the inspector-general of police of north Bengal on Wednesday, seeking stern steps to restrict the use of sound boxes and sound mixers to prevent e...

An eatery owner in Tangra in east Kolkata was electrocuted after he touched the iron shutter of his shop while trying to douse a fire in the kitchen on Tuesday morning. Police suspect the insulation ...

A 35-year-old man died after getting electrocuted at an eatery on Gobindo Khatick Road, Tangra, that caught a minor fire on Tuesday morning. While trying to escape from the fire, Bunty Halder, the ow...

Farzan’s father, Fakruddin Ansari, 48, has been working as a car mechanic in Saudi Arabia for four years. He came to Kolkata about 20 days back on a four-month holiday. The boy’s mother,...

“We are waiting for a report from the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), which is running an investigation to identify the cause of death,” an officer said.    At Narkeld...

A youth who was in the rescue team said there was no pump there when Farzan was electrocuted. KMC engineers said a tap of the civic body is located next to the electric pole, which the residents said ...

Several traffic guards across Behala and Thakurpukur, covering parts of Diamond Harbour Road and Haridevpur in the southern suburbs, have been instructed to identify iron poles — including those...

The pole in Haridevpur on the city’s southern fringes that 11-year-old Nitish Yadav touched and got electrocuted on Sunday evening was not earthed, the state power department has said in a repor...

The civic body began moving pumps to waterlogging-prone pockets on Monday — a day after an 11-year-old boy got electrocuted after touching a pole on a flooded road in Haridevpur on the city&rsqu...

“We have not got any complaint from the family. We have started an unnatural death case. In future, if there is any need for any information sharing, we will contact the other agencies,” s...