Tag: Hooghly
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Hakim distributes cheques to kin of four who died in Amphan
The deceased are Uttam Pal and Rajeswar Paul from Serampore; Sanjib Poddar from Chinsurah, and Parasuram Yadav from Bansberia.
May 24, 2020 -
Cyclone Amphan hits Bengal, Kolkata and nearby areas witness high-speed winds
Mrityunjay Mohapatra, the Director-General of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said that the eye of the cyclone, which is 30 km in diameter, has touched the land.
May 20, 2020 -
City braces for Amphan fury
A CPI-M delegation team today submitted a memorandum before the Contai sub-divisional officer urging him to open control rooms at each gram panchayat in the vulnerable blocks and to shift the residents living in the coastal areas to cyclone rescue centers.
May 20, 2020 -
129 arrested over clashes between two communities in West Bengal’s Telinipara
Internet services have been suspended in the area since Tuesday evening and the suspension will continue till the evening of May 17.
May 14, 2020 -
Jute mills workers agitate over visit to native homes
The large number of jute mill workers are in a fix over the new system introduced in the jute mills owing to the ongoing lockdown.
May 12, 2020 -
Panchayats flout Covid combat steps
In the panchayat areas, the villagers and farmers seem unswayed by the measures as most of the villagers, in the early hours of the day, trot to the vegetable market at Baidyabati near the Tarakeshwar and Delhi highway junction, making them vulnerable to virus contagion.
May 10, 2020 -
Sreerapore IMA urges doctors who were staying away to attend to patients
Thereafter, hundreds of patients suffering from various ailments like heart disease, high blood pressure, renal failure acute and chronic dysentery, and people with flu-like symptoms, found most of the chambers and clinics closed.
May 4, 2020 -
Cyclone Amphan may hit Boro cultivators hard
The unprecedented lockdown incidentally has hit harvesting of Boro paddy as the farmers are not getting labourers to share the burden of bulk reaping nor can hire the giant harvesters as the machine operators are stranded in states like Punjab, Haryana.
April 29, 2020 -
Blood donation camp held for children with thalassemia
A social organization jointly with life care blood bank today conducted a blood donation camp at Janai. Maintaining social distancing, blood was donated by forty donors for the thalassemia - affected children who are in urgent need of blood transfusion.
April 26, 2020 -
Two from Hooghly test positive for Covid-19
To keep a check on the movement of the people, the district administration has taken a decision to set up a helium balloon fitted with camera to keep a track on the movement of people and vehicles.
April 25, 2020 -
Jute mills in Hooghly to reopen today with greatly reduced strength
The police administration and the local civic body have taken a number of steps to regulate the movement of the jute mill workers from their residence to the jute mill, so that jute mill workers on their way to work and back do not crowd unnecessarily.
April 20, 2020 -
Covid 19: Surveillance stepped up in Hooghly
This system will supposedly ensure that numbers of Corona suspected and infected persons, and their family members, can be ascertained and steps can be taken for the treatment and isolation.
April 14, 2020 -
With 12 new cases, Bengal to seal off Covid hotspots
“A complete lockdown is being imposed in the hotspots and clusters or the areas adjoining the hotspots. We don’t want the infection to spread like wildfire. But the daily necessities of the people of these areas are being taken care of,” said chief secretary Rajiva Sinha in Nabanna today.
April 11, 2020 -
Burdwan’s rice mills resume work after support from state
The district administration, to help bring back confidence about a healthy and sanitised working atmosphere, ordered health screening of all mill workers today.
April 9, 2020 -
4 patients positive for Covid-19 dead in West Bengal
A 34 year-old youth of Mahestala area in South 24 Parganas district died at the state-run N R S Medical College Hospital today.
April 6, 2020 -
Bread feels the heat: Shortage of labourers in bakery industry
Plagued by the outbreak of the pandemic of corona virus, the bakery industry in the city is badly hit due to acute shortage of labourers.
April 2, 2020 -
Seoraphuli resident tests +ve, family put in isolation
The district administration and the health department have taken prompt measures to placate the panicked neighbours.
March 31, 2020