Log in to our website to save your bookmarks. Five others were detained, the firm's Kolkata office sealed, and a notice was sent to its CMD to join the probe in 48 hours.Like every day, Gulab Chand Mali was selling paraphernalia in his small paan shop near Posta Kali temple on Thursday morning, a happy man. In case you can’t find any email from our side, please check the spam folder. Much like, should they carry on with their pre-scheduled sports or entertainment programming? And definitely no action which won’t get media coverage. Mamata Banerjee, till I last watched the news at 10 pm, was reportedly still at the site. Both lost their fathers in Thursday's flyover collapse at Rabindra Sarani. I can only shudder at the images of the horror unfolding in Kolkata, my home town. This was in the heart of Kolkata, in Girish Park. Also, if you’re from Kolkata, this is a situation which you’ve certainly expected to happen.Construction of flyovers and bridges and roads has always looked dodgy. The last one claimed 27 lives. You must login to keep earning daily check-in points* TimesPoints expire in 1 year from the day of creditThe contract for building this flyover was given to a blacklisted company by CPM in 2009 and Congress is in alliance with CPM for the upcoming assembly elections in West Bengal.Sixteen-year-old Akhilesh Yadav and 45-day-old Sultan Sheikh was on their maiden visit to the city. KOLKATA: Two flyover collapses in the city — one on March 3, 2013 and another on March 31, 2016.
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The only construction which seems to take place with great speed are our British-esque lamp posts, a fake Big Ben in Lake Town and, of course, various buildings being painted blue. There is no tyranny of distance here. More than one year since the Kolkata flyover collapse that killed 26, the criminal trial has not begun. Well, some of it at least. And we should simply take solace from the fact that there was a certain objectivity to reporting on disasters and interviewing victims of these calamities, which we haven’t seen in some time. )", no one asked survivors or witnesses asinine and rhetorical questions. And the government is silent. One of the gas-cutters set the surrounding area aflame. Construction of flyovers and bridges and roads has always looked dodgyA massive flyover collapses on a crowded street, pinning under it auto rickshaws, minibuses, pedestrians, traffic constables. From decorations to a grand reception to distributing invitation cards, Gulab was micro-managing everything: just three weeks later, his son Vikas was getting married.Rescue officials said on Friday that there are no more survivors trapped under the rubble of a flyover that collapsed killing at least 25 people, as police detained five construction company officials over the accident.In the aftermath of the Vivekananda Road flyover collapse, Kolkata traffic police has also stopped movement of trucks in the city between 6am and 11pm.This is the chorus raised by engineering experts and construction companies, pointing out that even if such work is executed in bits and pieces, the project must be provided enough space and freed of clutter -like vehicles, shanties, and people-below, especially at the time concrete is poured and girders are placed.Chief minister Mamata Banerjee had tried to fast-forward the flyover. The chief minister knows this very well and that is why she is trying to hush up the matterRefrain from posting comments that are obscene, defamatory or inflammatory, and do not indulge in personal attacks, name calling or inciting hatred against any community.
22 killed, several trapped after under-construction flyover collapses in Kolkata. There were hands reaching out from the debris, waving, hoping to be pulled out, asking for water. Kolkata police sets up a 23-member Special Investigation Team to probe the flyover collapse 10:21 PM (IST) Three officials among the 10 held earlier on the day for interrogation arrested If you turned on the news on Thursday, you would have seen people being extricated from the debris.

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Columnist Sandip Roy, though, calls a spade a spade and a concerned Banerjee for what she is in his article (The folks at the construction company will most probably go scot-free soon. It'll just take a moment.You are now subscribed to our newsletters.

But no one paid attention. Twenty-seven people were killed and 80 others after Vivekananda Flyover … The only moment of irony was while watching the news reporting on ETV News, which was interspersed with Trinamool Congress election ads sung by Anupam Roy. But there’s no media posturing to be achieved with that, so what’s the point? Now it has taken a thousand steps backward.United India Insurance, the insurer of the Vivekananda Road Flyover, is likely to send its inquiry team on Saturday.The stock plunged 9.70 per cent to settle at Rs 5.77 on BSE. This was a half-built flyover under which I’ve often driven.