EIMG Concours d’Elegance 2025: Kolkata gears up for vintage car extravaganza
Experience the EIMG Concours d’Elegance 2025 in Kolkata, showcasing 90 rare vintage cars, including Rolls-Royces, Bentleys, and more, at The Lake Club.
Experience the EIMG Concours d’Elegance 2025 in Kolkata, showcasing 90 rare vintage cars, including Rolls-Royces, Bentleys, and more, at The Lake Club.
Situated in Kolkata’s Chowringee Road, which cuts through the ancient city’s central business area, the stately Statesman House, which has towered into the skyline since the British ruled India will unravel in its new avatar.
Several people demonstrated on the railway tracks, halting train services for a while. The railway police eventually brought the situation under control, and train services resumed later in the day.
According to the city Metro office, at stations like Shyambazar, Sovabazar-Sutanuti, Chandni Chowk, Park Street, Rabindra Sadan, Netaji Bhavan and Rabindra Sarobar, 50 per cent gates are remaining open for these experimental services in order to make entry and exit of passengers fast and easy.
World Music Day was observed in the city with great enthusiasm.
For the first time in Kolkata Metro, e-pass or boarding pass will have to be obtained with the expected time of the journey, source and destination Metro stations four to six hours before the journey, which is likely to be available on the Metro website or the existing ‘Pathadisha’ app launched by the state Transport Department or a mobile app, according to sources.
While the final date of resumption yet to be decided, the state government is said to have requested the metro officials to run services on 13 September for aspirants of NEET.
The Union health ministry on 21 August had claimed that India had been conducting 580 tests per day per million population, while Bengal remained far behind at 365 tests, and figured in the bottom five states in terms of testing per day.
The civic body has increased its testing in all the 16 boroughs of the KMC. Both RT-PCR and rapid antigen tests are being carried out by the health team of the civic body health department.
The decision comes following a letter from ER to the state government, proposing to convene the meeting for discussing matters related to resumption of sub-urban trains and metros.
