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KOLKATA: The had renewed trade licences of 69 companies operating under the scam-ridden Saradha Group this year, Mayor Sovan Chatterjee said today. "We had renewed the licences of 69 Saradha Group companies this year. But licences were given to them ...

The civic body has cleared the way for Mukesh Ambanis Reliance to lay optical fibres along 700km of city roads to launch 4G services, apparently after a prod from the chief minister to speed up the process. A 4G network can provide Internet access ...

The civic body will pull down a concrete water reservoir near Navina cinema after two Jadavpur University professors declared it unsafe and precarious, the first instance in the city of a concrete structure being pulled down while still in use. The ...

Calcutta, May 23: Opposition councillors in the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) today demanded to know why the civic body had renewed the trade licences of several Saradha companies in 2012, a year before the group collapsed after defaulting on ...

statesman news serviceKOLKATA, 23 MAY: There was uproar at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation's monthly meeting when Left Front and Trinamul Congress councillors clashed over chief minister Mamata Banerjee's renaming of five city roads allegedly ...

Flyovers and bridges across the city will be inspected, many of them for the first time in four or five decades, as part of a health audit in the wake of the collapse of a portion of the Ultadanga flyover. The decision was taken at a meeting of ...

tarun goswamiKOLKATA, 18 MAY: The Municipal Magistrate's court has ordered six months imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5,000 failing which another two months of imprisonment to a person who carried out illegal construction at his residence in north ...

Calcutta police have not allowed the CPM to hold a rally at the north Calcutta venue where Mamata Banerjee had taken stage three days ago, citing a Calcutta Municipal Corporation programme that was allegedly planned after the Opposition party sought ...

Calcutta, May 4: Two newspapers that Saradha used to run with content catering to the minority community have managed to stay afloat despite the closure of other media outfits run by the group. Trinamul sources attributing their survival amid odds ...