Calcutta needs immediate seismic microzonation and a risk-assessment study to minimise damage in case of a major earthquake, temblor experts and geologists say. Seismic microzonation is a system of ...

Kolkata: One of the most visited metropolis of India, Kolkata, finally has a tourist map. The last know map was published on Calcutta - as the city was formerly known in 1790. Since then the city has ...

The newly-discovered Kolkata maps, created over a ... Panchanna Gram in the east and Jorasanko and Kasaripara area in the South. Titled ‘Calcutta Municipal Maps 1887-1893,’ the publication ...