The Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS) has asked the state government for a report on how much wind force the proposed Majerhat bridge could sustain.The CRS, which functions under the civil aviation...

Traffic along DH Road headed towards the collapsed Majerhat bridge from Kidderpore will be diverted to make way for the construction of four piers of the Joka-BBD Bag Metro.Vehicles will be diverted t...

State government officials are hopeful that the commissioner of railway safety will okay the proposed Majerhat bridge by this month.The commissioner met PWD engineers last week and had a detailed disc...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has written to railway minister Piyush Goyal urging him to intervene in the construction of the superstructure of the Majerhat bridge over railway tracks.The state gover...

Safe to say that when Mamata Banerjee won the historic Bengal elections of 2011 and promised to turn Calcutta into London, she did not mean to make real olden rhymes of falling bridges, et al. And yet...

Rajiva Sinha, Bengal’s new chief secretary, has written to all officials up to the rank of joint secretary that “there is no need to formally call on me” for meetings.The email, the first such w...

A proposal has been mooted to set up an office of the Howrah police commissioner under one of the ramps of Vidyasagar Setu adjacent to Nabanna at a time the state government is campaigning against con...

The bus ban on the Tallah bridge and the absence of the Majerhat bridge, which had collapsed in September last year, have paralysed traffic in large areas of north and south Calcutta.Residents of many...

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A north Calcutta bridge that engineers want dismantled for the flawed design of one of its approaches is likely to be used by a large number of cars and other small vehicles keen on avoiding the Talla...