Fire breaks out at Apeejay House; no injuries reported
Twelve engines including a hydraulic ladder were pressed into service to douse the blaze.
Twelve engines including a hydraulic ladder were pressed into service to douse the blaze.
A closed down hospital facility at EM Bypass is among the buildings to be used as quarantine centres.
The compulsions are seemingly reasonable, but environmental protection does not end with a check on greenhouse gas emissions.
While 863 were nabbed for disorderly conduct in public places including eve-teasing, nearly 2,600 were booked and fined for traffic rule violations with 1,289 fined for riding bikes without helmets, 654 for carrying more than one pillionrider, 531 for rash and drunken driving and 123 for other offences on the road, police said.
Kolkata police have put in place an elaborate security arrangement keeping a strict vigil on the revellers keeping in mind the rising cases of misconduct against women.
As people geared up to cheer and make merry, the city seemed keen to catch the festive air on a blustery Sunday morning.
While having ice cream at Park Street, homemaker Shilpa Maheta. who had come with her two kids said, “Christmas is about plum cakes from a Jewish bakery, a suckling pig roasting on the green lawns of one of the city's starchy clubs and attending the midnight mass at St Paul's Cathedral.”
In Kolkata, Christmas is not about just the Christians but it belongs to everyone irrespective of his religion, caste or age.
The court stated this after one of the accused, after Ali Khan alias Azhar Ali, had moved court seeking high court's intervention to expedite the trial of the case.
The Division Bench then fixed Kumar's anticipatory bail plea, which was filed yesterday, for hearing on Wednesday.
