Thirty three passengers suffered injuries and one died after a speeding bus suddenly toppled on Kalna - Pandua road this morning while trying to give passage to an electric rickshaw.
DM & DEO Hooghly held a meeting with all electoral registration officers on last Wednesday and also held district level meetings with representatives of all recognised national and state level political parties on continuous updation and other electoral roll matters at Sarva Siksha Meeting hall.
Seeing this accident, all the five men on the chasing vehicle, including the driver fled away.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) is set to contest the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections with a renewed focus on rural struggles, highlighting issues such as unemployment, low crop prices, and the migrant labour crisis.
The Howrah shooting incident, in which IC of Chanditala police station, Hooghly sustained bullet injury in the presence of a woman, turned murkier today, as investigations revealed that the alleged shooting had occurred from a local firearm usually used by miscreants and not the service revolver of the cop.
More than 2,000 temporary workers of Hooghly-Chinsurah municipality, who had been demanding their wages for the last three months, have stopped rendering essential civic services from yesterday, causing misery to the residents of the joint civic area.
A school in Arambag has decided on organic farming to provide insecticides and pesticides-free organic vegetables in mid-day meals.
More than 2,000 temporary workers of Hooghly-Chinsurah municipality are in great distress after being unpaid for three months.
These 17 urban local bodies in the state are, Asansol, Bankura, Purulia, Birbhum, Burdwan, Siliguri, jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar, Dinajpur, Malda, Murshidabad, West Midnapore, Murshidabad, Malda, Nadia, Hooghly, East Midnapore etc.
All the municipality and panchayat areas within Hooghly district are on high alert to face any kind of emergency situation arising from the cyclone.
