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.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has congratulated India’s teenage shooting sensation Abhinav Shaw of Asansol, on winning two gold medals and setting new world and Asian records at the 16th Asian Shooting Championship held in Kazakhstan.
Rajiv Banerjee, a recovery agent for a public sector bank in Asansol, was arrested by the Asansol South Police Phari (outpost) under the Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate (ADPC) for allegedly threatening a person while demanding money over a loan default.
The Calcutta High Court has directed that an FIR be lodged against Asansol Municipal Corporation (AMC) for allegedly demanding Rs 20 lakh as a penalty for an illegal construction in a factory in Jamuria.
The botany department of the state-aided Banowarilal Bhalotia (BB) College under Kazi Nazrul University (KNU) has come forward to plant about 5,000 saplings of the almost extinct species, Terminalia Elliptica (Asan tree), which were once found in abundance in Asansol.
A severe drinking water crisis has gripped parts of Asansol and Raniganj after a structural bridge carrying a 40-year-old Public Health Engineering (PHE) pipeline collapsed in Kalajharia over the river Damodar two days ago.
