Kolkata witnessed fresh unrest on Wednesday over protests against the killing of a Bangladeshi youth, with tensions flaring across multiple locations in the city and its outskirts, including the Howrah Bridge and near the Petrapole border in North 24-Parganas.
The 81-year-old iconic Howrah Bridge (Rabindra Setu) -- that connects the cities of Kolkata and Howrah -- will remain closed to traffic for five hours on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday for a comprehensive health check-up, the Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port (SMP), Kolkata, has notified.
West Bengal BJP President and Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar late at night reached the Dorina Crossing where the Kolkata Police tried to stop the BJP workers from setting up the stage for protest.
Authorities have tightened security in Kolkata in the wake of the 12-hour 'Bengal Bandh' call by the BJP in protest against the alleged police crackdown during the 'Nabanna Abhijan' protest rally in the state capital on Tuesday.
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A privately-operated bus rammed into one of the iron pillars of the Howrah bridge on Friday afternoon, injuring at least 10 passengers onboard.
The experts would conduct a study and health audit of the bridge after which the repair and maintenance work would commence after the monsoons.
Anyone who could not run his factory, which employed thousands of workers, just declared a lockout and the government was a ready taker. Sick textile mills were one example but also included many prestigious engineering names like Braithwaite which designed and built the first Howrah Bridge, a wonder in the 1930s.
The rescue workers found the body of Chanchal Lahiri late on Monday in the Hooghly river, the deputy commissioner of the port division of Kolkata police said.
Eyewitnesses said Chanchal Lahiri, who was lowered into the river standing in a six-foot-tall cage having six locks, from Millenium Park for the underwater escape act, disappeared near pillar number 28 of the Howrah Bridge.
