Kolkata: Massive fire engulfed several shanties on the wee hours of Sunday in Narkeldanga area in north Kolkata leaving one ...

KOLKATA: One person died in a blaze that gutted at least 30 shanties in Narkeldanga area of the metropolis, a fire brigade ...

The charred body of Habibullah Mollah (65), a rag picker was recovered from a gutted shanty after fire brigade personnel ...

A massive fire broke out in a slum near the canal in Narkeldanga on Saturday night, leaving one person dead and destroying at least 40 shanties.

I inquired about her shortly before the publication of this story and learned that her slum has been bulldozed to make way for a high-rise residential building. Flats in that part of Kolkata can ...

Firefighters, aided by army personnel, are battling to contain the inferno amid strong northwesterly winds that have complicated their efforts Our Web Desk Published 21.12.24, 08:54 PM ...

Slums proliferated. “What you see in India is that there is an inbuilt inequality at all levels,” said Ashish Avikunthak, a University of Rhode Island professor who grew up in Kolkata.

Kolkata: A fire broke out at a slum and auto rickshaw union's office in Joka below a metro viaduct on Diamond Harbour Road on Thursday evening. Two fire tenders brought the blaze under control in ...

Kolkata: A fire broke out at Mazdoor Bustee ... A fire officer said none of the engines could go near the slum and had to spray water from the other side of the canals. Firemen, too, had a tough ...

Deadly slum fire in Narkeldanga kills one, leaves 200 homeless, with 30 shanties gutted and 17 fire tenders deployed.

A major fire broke out in a slum in the Narkeldanga area of the city in which one person was killed, a Fire Brigade official ...