Tuesday 10 February '09
While the Left Front government’s alleges it is being deprived of the central funds for the urban development projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, the Rs 177 crore it received a year ago for slum development projects under the scheme have remained unused.Monday 9 February '09
Even as several meetings have been held in Delhi for the speedy execution of slum development schemes in the country...Monday
9 February '09The annual report of the Examiner of Local Accounts on urban local bodies does not portend good news for the Left-ruled civic body.Friday
6 February '09In the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls, the hugely popular annual book fair in the city has turned into a political battleground this year, with almost all parties flooding the stalls with their propaganda material.Friday
6 February '09In a classic example of bureaucratic callousness, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has lost the lease deeds of its own properties, thus incurring a loss of crores of rupees in revenue every year.Wednesday
4 February '09Despite poor firefighting measures adopted at the 33rd Kolkata Book Fair, fire minister Pratim Chatterjee allowed his department to arrange for a conditional No Objection Certificate...Friday
30 January '09With the project for the permanent fair ground Milan Mela hanging fire for want of funds and because of a string of land litigations three years after the construction began...Thursday
22 January '09Apart from issuing fake tickets, a new kind of forgery seems to be emerging in the Indian Railways.Tuesday
20 January '09Desilting of various canals in the city has been stalled due to non-availability of land for dumping silt...Monday
19 January '09It seems that the communication gap between Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and its nodal agency, the Kolkata Environment Improvement Project (KEIP)...Saturday
17 January '09Visiting the Sagar Mela next year will be a traumatic experience given the transportation woes faced by the pilgrims this year.Thursday
15 January '09Though Gangasagar mela started early morning on Wednesday on a sombre note — five people were found dead — the mood picked up through the day with chants of “sab teerth bar bar, Gangasagar ek bar” rending the air.Wednesday
14 January '09Gangasagar Mela may be a religious congregation but this year it has almost turned into a political playground with Communists and the Bajrang Dal hoisting their flags all over the place and aggressively wooing the devotees.Thursday
8 January '09Even though Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has been quite vocal against cutting of trees and demanded a probe into the felling of 17 trees...Friday
2 January '09Confusion over the jurisdiction of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and the Public Works department (PWD) has put the Special Branch (SB) of the Kolkata Police in a fix.Monday
29 December '08With relations between India and Pakistan at a new low in the aftermath of Mumbai attack, the bilateral trade between the two countries have taken a serious beating, say Pakistani businessmen.Friday
26 December '08Looking at the 22nd Industrial Trade Fair one would hardly believe that the low participation of companies in the fair is not due to the economic meltdown but the deplorable condition of the fair ground.Wednesday
24 December '08After The Indian Express reported that Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has outsourced certain publishing assignments to the nephew of the Mayor...Tuesday
23 December '08Even after the claims of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee that the land management system is well organised in the state, nearly 30 per cent of prime land under the jurisdiction of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is not assessed.Saturday
20 December '08The economic slowdown has claimed another victim — the Christmas market. The New Market area — the hub of Christmas shopping — is empty with tense shop-owners eagerly waiting for customers.Friday
19 December '08Officials of the National Vector-borne Disease Control Programme, a scheme of the Union government, slammed the state health department for an ill-equipped public health system.Thursday
18 December '08Emboldened by the favourable response of consumers and suppliers, German major Metro Cash and Carry is planning to set up more distribution centres in the state at an investment of nearly Rs 560 crore.Thursday
18 December '08The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has flouted all norms and renewed licences of traders of the Nandaram Market, which was destroyed in a fire in January.Tuesday
16 December '08‘Adopt the parks’, a much touted initiative taken by Mayor Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya to renovate parks in Kolkata has hit a roadblock.Monday
15 December '08Keith lobo, who has been residing at Bow Barracks with his wife for the last 60 years, is not sure about his fate after the demolition of the structure.
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