Father son duo drown in pond
Eyewitnesses said that Govinda Nag, a cook, was in an intoxicated state when he took his son for a swimming lesson to the nearby pond.
Commuters have a long standing demand for more local trains with more frequency on the Dankuni-Sealdah route during office peak hours.
The Hooghly district citizens forum have submitted a memorandum to the divisional railway manager, Sealdah division, Eastern Railway, to press for their long standing demand on the Dankuni-Sealdah route.
The president of the citizens forum Sailen Parbat said, the Dankuni station is located very near to the Durgapur Expressway and Delhi Road junction, the Howrah-Burdwan chord line runs through Dankuni junction hence besides the rush of local commuters, a large number of passengers of Burdwan chord line get down at Dankuni to avail the Dankuni-Sealdah local to reach their working places. Daily commuters at the risk of their lives hang out dangerously from the overcrowded and over-packed trains.
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The locals demand to add four more local trains to the existing ones, thus increasing the frequency at every half-an-hour during the peak office hours. At present only nine compartment local trains are run on the Dankuni- Sealdah route. The demand is for 12 local trains on the route.
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