The death toll in Wednesday's fire tragedy in Kolkata has risen to 20. One of the injured admitted at the NRS medical college died on Friday morning. ...
03:23 PM, Mar 01, 2013
Screams of people on fire broke the silence of the night in the congested Surya Sen Market complex in the city where a fire left labourers and shopkeepers dead. Locals said they were alerted to the fire by shouts of the victims sleeping inside the complex. ...
03:35 PM, Feb 27, 2013
Death toll rises to 18 in a massive fire that broke out at a market near the Calcutta University campus in the wee hours of Wednesday. ...
11:12 AM, Feb 27, 2013
Over 13 people have reportedly died after a massive fire broke out at a market near the Calcutta University campus in the wee hours of Wednesday. Rescue workers are evacuating people trapped in the blaze that broke out at 3:50 am in Surya Sen market in Sealdah. ...
10:04 AM, Feb 27, 2013
Seven people are feared died in a massive fire that broke out near the Calcutta University campus in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. ...
07:30 AM, Feb 27, 2013
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is on a one-day trip to Kolkata, where he will be attending two events - one at the Bose Institute, and the other at Calcutta University, where he's set to share the dais with West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee. This will be the leaders' first meeting after the petrol price hike, which the TMC chief has been protesting against....
09:21 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Kolkata: Renowned filmmaker Shyam Benegal on Thursday said study of film language should be included in the school curriculum either at the primary or secondary level to raise the quality of cinema. "Film is an excellent medium to explore realities. Its mass reach makes it as an effective tool of dissemination of information," said Benegal. "Film as a subject of study is relatively new in academia what we do not...
11:17 AM, Mar 23, 2012
