A major fire broke out in a naphthalene factory in Muchpara near Durgapur under New Township police station yesterday evening and one labourer suffered severe burn injury yesterday evening. An ITI college is near the factory site and there are few houses also.
The East Bengal Fan Club members today brought out a peace rally in Durgapur town to give a message to the caretaker government in Bangladesh to ensure protection of the minorities in the troubled neighbouring country where the weaker community members are allegedly attacked
Miscreants looted the house of a policeman in the heart of Durgapur's administrative corridor this morning that sparked off sensation.
About 147 contractual labourers of Durgapur Chemicals Limited (DCL) started agitation today outside the gate of the factory after being removed from service.
National Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur is going to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Power Grid Corporation of India for installation of a 1.07 MWp on grid rooftop solar system at a function here tomorrow.
PM10, or particulate matter with a diameter of 10 micrometres or less, the key air pollutant in the Durgapur industrial zone, cannot travel long distances, and bio-seals along the Jharkhand border will not be very effective, according to senior environmental scientists and engineers.
While Wilson, who was sent to seven days police custody, was arrested in a case relating to the illegal filling of a pond, Dinesh Gorai was forwarded to court and taken to eight days police custody.
Om Sher Bahadur, a patient from Nepal is struggling to negotiate with the growing air pollution in Durgapur.
Two leaders, one from the ruling Trinamul Congress and the other from the CPM met on the road in Durgapur town on Friday morning.
An accounts department employee of SAIL's Durgapur Steel Plant was arrested today on charges of multi-crore pilferage of pension funds meant for the plant employees.
