The iconic singer Mohammad Rafi, who had sung the immortal song Choti si mulaqat pyar ban gai, died on 31 July 1980, just after a week of the passing away of Uttam Kumar, the most popular star of Bengali films, who had lip-sung the song in the film Chhoti Si Mulaqat.
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation is considering sending a proposal to the West Bengal Heritage Commission for revision in the formula of gradation of heritage structures.
Amid concerns for deteriorating air quality, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation is carrying out a ward-wise survey to find out the factors and solutions that would enable improvement of AQI at micro level.
The upgraded public toilets of Kolkata Municipal Corporation are facing the challenge of theft of articles, making the civic body look for solutions to prevent it.
The international climate community was apprised of the forthcoming Kolkata Climate Action Plan on the sidelines of the recently-concluded UN climate conference, COP-29, at Baku, Azerbaijan.
In a significant development, the BJP has declared its candidates for the upcoming by-elections in two Assembly constituencies in West Bengal.
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has prepared a standard operating procedure (SOP) for its officials to handle instances for illegal construction.
Even as the NDRF is said to have completed the rescue operations, there are apprehensions of one person still being trapped under the rubble.
After the collapse of an under-construction building at Garden Reach that took away 10 lives, the mayor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation, Firhad Hakim, today sent out a strict message to the officials and engineers of the building department not to allow any illegal constructions at any cost.
Mayor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation, Firhad Hakim today termed the issues of illegal construction as ‘social malady’ while ruing that he was unaware why it could not be contained.
