After the flyover is built at Park Street – Chowringhee Road crossing, it’s now a smoother ride at the busy intersection. The traffic snarl has now shifted to Esplanade, specially at the stretch between SN Banerjee Road and Lenin Sarani crossings. The place assumes an ominous hue whenever any political program is arranged opposite Metro […]
Looking after heritage
Kolkata abounds in heritage buildings that dot the city landscape mostly in the north and central part. Many of them like the Writers Building, the GPO or the Corporation Building are in regular use, and though the interiors have been infringed upon without adequate planning, the outside at least retains the old grandeur. Yet there […]
Taratala to Budge Budge
Even as the proposed monorail project from Joka to Panihati is gradually gaining momentum, a new project has been submitted by city-based Andromeda Technologies to build a similar facility along 14-km long Budge Budge Trunk Road from Taratala to Budge Budge. Andromeda has submitted its proposal to the government some time back and now the […]
Bridge without fanfare
The second Vivekananda Bridge opens today without virtually any hullabaloo. Some time back the bridge was to be inaugurated by no less a person than the Prime Minister, which the stature of the bridge rightly demands. But things changed at the last moment. The PM is not coming and no one else is doing the […]
Kidderpore Mall
More on mall in the city. The government owns more than 36 bighas of land at Kidderpore’s Orphangunge behind Alipore Zoo and by the side of Tolly’s Nullah. This is the only city market that the land and land reforms department of the government owns. And now it has decided to develop the market into […]
East Kolkata Wetlands
It won’t be obscuring the truth that Kolkata’s survival depends on the vast wetlands to the east of the city, said to be the largest manmade wastewater recovery system in the world. It is the largest ensemble of sewage fed fishponds in the world in one place. The wetlands cover an area of about 125 […]
Airport revamp by private party
In its Feb 22 edition this year, The Telegraph reported that the Tatas and Singapore’s Changi Airport’s investment arm will jointly bid for Kolkata airport’s modernization. Thereafter doubts arose about it since left parties wanted the job to be done by state-run AAI (Airports Authority of India) instead of private parties. The cloud over the […]
Reliance paves the way
That the realty investment in Kolkata has taken an upswing is already acknowledged, what with large projects of all hues coming up allover the city and new ones debuting every other day. But it took Reliance’s first-move initiative that the dilapidated KMC markets at vantage points in the city are now looked at with renewed […]
DLF unfolds in Kolkata
ITC’s prime hotel, Sonar Bangla, is shortly going to have company of similar projects. The first, a 5-star property by Emmar Group, is coming up between it and the highrise, Silver Springs. And now, DLF plans to build a composite project of 2 hotels and a service apartment block off Bypass on a 5 and […]
East-West Metro
Today’s MPs from West Bengal are a smarter lot. Gone are days when all they used to do was flexing muscle at the floor of the parliament, and petty politicking back home when the parliament was not is session. Representing state’s cause for investment and clinching ‘favors’ for the state from the center were never […]
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