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.
Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate (ADPC) has busted a fake firearms racket and seized various documents from Coke Oven police station area in Durgapur last evening.
A call centre operating at Durgapur city, in league with a counterfeit agency, had consistently been defrauding mainly US citizens in the name of tech-support impersonating as antivirus providers for months and the cyber PS officials busted the gang yesterday.
Incessant rainfall caused by sustained depression over the Damodar East sub-basin in the last couple of days resulted the Durgapur barrage to open 16 of its 34 lock-gates resulting a discharge of 60210 cusecs at 6 pm today, posing a minor inundation threat to the lower valley basin.
Burdwan town and its adjacent villages, and Durgapur town received sudden incessant precipitation of torrential rain last night causing inundation in some municipal wards.
Flight operations have resumed after three days from Kazi Nazrul Islam Airport in Andal from today, and coal production from open-cast coal mines has also resumed from today as rainfall stops
