Political, industry leaders welcome Metro surveys for Asansol and Durgapur
Finance minister Swapan Dasgupta yesterday announced surveys for proposed Metro rail projects in three cities of the state ~ Asansol, Durgapur and Siliguri.
Finance minister Swapan Dasgupta yesterday announced surveys for proposed Metro rail projects in three cities of the state ~ Asansol, Durgapur and Siliguri.
The whirring of heavy earthmoving machinery dismantling the old and making way for the new was at work, punctuating the silence hanging heavy over the vintage steel mill which had come up here as the first steel plant in the state in the midst of World War I in 1918.
According to the Ministry of Railways, the approved works include development and augmentation of coaching maintenance facilities in Rajasthan, doubling of a key section in Kerala, and construction of a bypass line in West Bengal.
A wave of coordinated bomb threats sent shockwaves across West Bengal’s judicial system on Tuesday, triggering large-scale evacuations and security sweeps in courts across multiple districts, including Kolkata, Asansol, Hooghly, Berhampore and Contai.
The ceremony was held in the presence of Sangrah Maurya, Divisional Railway Manager, Asansol, along with other senior railway officials and dignitaries.
A longstanding quest for green steel, besides the growing desperation to contribute to breakthroughs in research and development, together have recently instigated a bunch of scientists and scholars to rush to Australia from Durgapur, Asansol, Dhanbad, Mumbai and Hyderabad.
The district electoral department has proposed the bifurcation of polling stations with more than 1,200 voters across all nine Assembly constituencies of the district, based on the draft electoral roll published on 16 December last year.
The Divisional Railway Hospital, Asansol, under the Asansol Division of Eastern Railway, successfully managed a rare and extraordinary medical emergency on 12 January 2026 involving a one-year-and-four-month-old child whose index finger was trapped into an idli-making plate, posing a serious risk of compromised blood circulation.
According to Poddar, a landslide was reported in the mining area 12 BCCL border patch at around 7.45 am in the morning.
The long-standing dispute over the renovation of the Kazi Nazrul Islam Museum at Churulia, the birthplace of the rebel poet near Asansol, has been amicably resolved. It has been unanimously decided that all museum artefacts will be kept within the village during the restoration period.
