Pond ecosystem are affected due to beautification projects anandabazar.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from anandabazar.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The archetypal city, the city of Kolkata, is immortalised by Mrinal Sen’s fim
Kolkata Ekattor (
Calcutta ‘71), which tells us of a time when the divide between the middle class and the urban poor was not as great as now.
Naxalite activity, food crisis, starvation of the lower classes, workers’ discontent and
social and political corruption merged in one common urban situation. The peasant unrest in the countryside acted as the backdrop for not only urban radical dreams but, for those managing the city, also as a menacing reminder of the time. Lower middle class families in many areas lived in or near slum areas. Sen showed the death of truth through the death of a youth chased and killed by the police.
Relief soon near Avishikta crossing Twenty-five metres have been widened on the western side and 12 metres on the eastern side
The widening of a stretch of EM Bypass near the Avishikta crossing is nearly complete and cars will be running on the widened portion in about 10 days, a senior official of the Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA), the custodian of EM Bypass, has said.
Twenty-five metres have been widened on the western side and 12 metres on the eastern side.
The widened stretch, which runs over a canal, will handle a lot of traffic soon after it is opened as the Avishikta crossing would be closed for construction of the New Garia-Airport Metro tracks, said an officer of Calcutta police’s traffic department.
Durpapur bridge to remain closed from 23 to 26 January dgtl anandabazar.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from anandabazar.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.