The mass of shanties on the sixth floor of a storied landmark in the heart of the Bengal capital is no Tower of David, the skyscraper that Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez gave slum-dwellers, but it is home to ...

I inquired about her shortly before the publication of this story and learned that her slum has been bulldozed to make way for a high-rise residential building. Flats in that part of Kolkata can ...

Deadly slum fire in Narkeldanga kills one, leaves 200 homeless, with 30 shanties gutted and 17 fire tenders deployed.

Firefighters, aided by army personnel, are battling to contain the inferno amid strong northwesterly winds that have complicated their efforts Our Web Desk Published 21.12.24, 08:54 PM ...

Kolkata: Massive fire engulfed several shanties ... While other residents managed to run out of their slums when the fire engulfed the shanties, Habibulla Mollar, who was said to be sleeping ...

A fire broke out in a slum in Kolkata on Saturday evening, engulfing a few shanties, according to an official. There have been no reports of any injuries or people trapped in the blaze ...

Mayor Firhad Hakim has announced that the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will provide adequate compensation to those who lost their homes in the devastating fire that ravaged a slum area in ...

KOLKATA: One person died in a blaze that gutted at least 30 shanties in Narkeldanga area of the metropolis, a fire brigade ...

A major fire broke out in a slum in the Narkeldanga area of the city in which one person was killed, a Fire Brigade official ...