Cop help for PWD to repair Kolkata's Chitpore Bridge in time

KOLKATA: Traffic cops have assured they will extend all help to the PWD and other government agencies so they can complete repairs of Chitpore Railyard Bridge before the Tallah Bridge gets pulled down.

Lalbazar officers said they were yet to get any formal proposal but, given the critical role Chitpore bridge is set to play in the crucial months, “minor changes, especially at night, in traffic flow can be allowed in order to complete the work”.

After Santiniketan, musical production 'Shotoborsho Pore' to be staged in Kolkata

Musical production 'Shotoborsho Pore' will be held in Kolkata at the Tollygunge Club on December 5. The production, scripted by scholar-educator Gautam Bhattacharya, was held at Viswa-Bharati’s Udayan last month.

Watch: Cash rains down from Kolkata building during DRI raid

Bystanders said bundles of currency notes, of denominations of Rs 2000, Rs 500 and Rs 100, were seen being pushed out of a window on the sixth floor with a broom.

In a bizarre incident, bundles of currency notes were thrown out of an office from the sixth floor of a building in Kolkata’s central business district in the midst of an income tax raid on Wednesday.