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Solar panels likely for 14.5m-plus buildings

KOLKATA: The civic body is planning to rope in the electricity department to keep tabs on the installation of solar panels on the roofs of all multi-storey buildings, which include G+IV structures. At present, KMC building rules (147) makes it mandatory for promoters to keep provision for solar panels at…

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Lack of facilities: Kerala HC relief for Kannur Medical College students

KOCHI: Considering a writ petition filed by six students — who completed MBBS from Kannur Medical College (KMC) — seeking to transfer their compulsory rotating mandatory internship to government hospitals citing lack of facilities at the private institution in Anjarakandy, the high court passed an interim order on Tuesday directing…

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Kolkata: KMC clinics to start cancer screening

KOLKATA: The urban primary health centres under KMC will start cancer screening, soon.

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Covid mapping: BMC, NKDA, one Kolkata ward have over 10 cases each

KOLKATA: Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA), along with one ward under Kolkata Municipal Corporation, have been categorized as pink zone in the latest Covid-19 mapping by the state health department. Periodically done in order to detect any upsurge in infection — civic body-wise, ward-wise…

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Kolkata Metro allays stability fears in Bowbazar

KOLKATA: A 40-mm subsidence of the soil around the Metro work site on Durga Pithuri Lane led to cracks in 18 buildings in the Bowbazar neighbourhood, stated the preliminary report by experts at Jadavpur University that was submitted to Kolkata Municipal Corporation. The report also flagged concern over the fate…

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Calcutta High Court asks CBI to probe construction on Kolkata's Tripura House premises

Justice Amrita Sinha also imposed a penalty of ₹44 crore on the owner and developer of the building, with each being asked to pay ₹22 crore, for felling a large number of trees within the premises

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Calcutta HC orders CBI probe into Tripura House heritage tag downgrade

KOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered a CBI probe into how Tripura House, an iconic grade-I heritage property at 59 Ballygunge Circular Road, was downgraded to grade-II and its gate, portico, fountain, driveway, garden were razed to allow construction of a high-rise, flouting heritage norms and disregarding objections…

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Kolkata: KMC plans open, vertical revamp for area

KOLKATA: The KMC is working on a rejuvenation and redevelopment plan for Durga Pithuri Lane and surroundings to facilitate a transformation of the adjoining neighbourhood, from a congested locality with century-old, dilapidated houses to a planned development with vertical houses and open spaces for greenery. Also, infrastructure, such as water…

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Cyclone Asani not likely to damage West Bengal coast: IMD

The forecast till May 12 remains ‘light to moderate rain/thunderstorm likely over the districts of Gangetic West Bengal’

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KMC tells doctors in Karnataka not to spread communal disharmony

Participation of doctors in issues of communal disharmony clearly amounts to professional misconduct, says a circular issued by the Karnataka Medical Council.

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Heat takes toll on strays: 1 dies, many dehydrated in Kolkata

KOLKATA: The rising temperature in the city is taking its toll on the strays. A stray dog reportedly died of heatstroke on Saturday and many others are reeling under the effects of the heat wave and suffering from dehydration, vets said.

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Kolkata: Dug up for months, Golf Club Road cries for immediate repair

KOLKATA: The restoration of the city’s major roads, which are being dug up for providing utility services, has taken a back seat. The roads that were already dug up months ago have not been restored yet.

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Kolkata Municipal Corporation drive against dengue, malaria

KOLKATA: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) health department is set to conduct anti-dengue and anti-malaria drives in select places across 144 wards where the diseases are on the rise after a lull in 2020.

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Save the green: KMC to take down fairy lights from trees

KOLKATA: The KMC has decided to remove all decorative lights from trees following protests from citizens and a section of environmentalists. The TOI had earlier reported on this menace, highlighting how owners of some restaurants and other commercial establishments illuminated trees to attract customers.

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12-14-year-olds queue up at Kolkata schools for first Covid vax dose

KOLKATA: As the inoculation drive for the 12-14 year age group was launched in Bengal on Monday, much enthusiasm was noticed at the school camps organized by the KMC, much more than that at the civic vaccination centres in the city.

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Officials hope for better footfall at KMC clinics

KOLKATA: Close to 1 lakh children, aged between 12 and 14 years, took their first dose of Covid vaccine—Corbevax—at 700 vaccination centres across Bengal on Monday, the first day the inoculation drive for the age group was launched. Health officials hoped the programme would gain momentum in the next couple…

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Alternate day water supply in Kolhapur

KOLHAPUR: The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to initiate alternate day water cuts for indefinite period in the city.

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Dhananjay Mahadik made BJP in-charge for Kolhapur civic polls

KOLHAPUR: Former NCP MP Dhananjay Mahadik, who had joined the BJP after defeat in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, will lead the saffron party’s electoral efforts for the upcoming Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) polls.

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KMC plans mobile courts to rein in city litterbugs

KOLKATA: In an effort to keep city streets free of garbage, Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is planning to set up a mobile sanitation court that will be doing the rounds and imposing littering fines on the spot. The mobile court will consist of a senior civic official, inspectors and clerical…

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Kolkata Municipal Corporation responds to citizens’ plea, reverts to pre-Covid park timings

KOLKATA: Most of the parks across the city reverted to pre-Covid hours on Monday. Citizens, particularly children and the elderly, welcomed the development and utilized the relaxed timings to take a stroll, exercise and generally relax in the lap of nature after being cooped up at home for prolonged periods.

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South Kolkata, fringes set to get more fee parking lots

KOLKATA: Wards in south Kolkata and along the fringes are set to get a few more notified parking lots. The KMC last week granted approval for the first parking area, where 20 vehicles can be kept, near Taratala state garage-Parnasree lake. The Kolkata Traffic Police said it would now send…

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Parks to stay open from 6am to 9pm from Monday: KMC

KOLKATA: Facing flak from citizens, health experts and rights groups for its reluctance to open parks, Kolkata Municipal Corporation's mayor-in-council member in charge of parks and squares Debashis Kumar told TOI all parks would revert to pre-Covid times and be open from 6am to 9pm.

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Water woes end in Gariahat neighbourhood after KMC replaces 45-year-old pipeline

KOLKATA: Dhrubajyoti Chaudhuri, an octogenarian and a resident of Rashbehari Avenue, is heaving a sigh of relief. Chaudhuri's household was going through an acute water crisis and would need to buy packaged drinking water for the past few months.

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West Bengal: 47,974 applications filed at 1,396 camps on Paray Samadhan Day-I

KOLKATA: Paray Samadhan (solution at the neighbourhood), a state government initiative to reach out to citizens in their neighbourhoods instead of calling them to government offices, was launched across the state on Monday.

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Footfall up at Kolkata Municipal Corporation clinics as senior citizens back for vax

KOLKATA: Senior citizens have started queuing up in large numbers at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation Covid vaccination clinics (CVC) to get their booster shots. According to a KMC health department official, the civic body’s vaccination clinics were recording a surge in attendance of senior citizens who were averse to taking…

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