Work stops at 700 sites across city; developers, contractors worried as daily loss pegged at Rs 25 cr | Kolkata News

Work stops after Taratala collapse Kolkata: Construction activity came to a standstill at nearly 700 sites across the city on Thursday after the govt issued a stop-work notice following the warehouse collapse and deaths near Taratala.The real estate industry spent an anxious day, hoping the govt would review its decision within the next few days…

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Suvendu blames Trinamool’s ‘sins’ for Taratala warehouse collapse, ex-mayor’s OSD arrested | Kolkata News

Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday blamed the previous Trinamool Congress dispensation for the collapse of the under-construction warehouse in Taratala, telling off the party, “This is the result of the sins you committed.”Holding a copy of the sanctioned building plan of the structure, which bore the signatures of then Trinamool mayor of Kolkata Municipal…

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5 dead, 20 injured, at least 12 feared trapped in city warehouse collapse | Kolkata News

Kolkata: Five people were killed and 20 others injured after a 32,000 sq ft under-construction warehouse at Taratala came crashing down around 11.30 am on Wednesday, burying around 40 labourers under tonnes of concrete slabs, mangled iron beams, steel and corrugated tin sheets.Nearly 400 personnel drawn from the Army, National Disaster Response Force, State Disaster…

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