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The Dakshineswar Temple and Belur Math, as well as Kalighat, will be closed to devotees on New Year's Day on account of the rise in Covid-19 infections in Kolkata.
Belur Math, the global headquarters of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, will remain closed indefinitely from Thursday. At an emergency meeting of the governing council of the organisation on Wednesday, it was decided that Belur Math would have to be shut down immediately because of the surge in Covid cases. “Because of the rapid spread of the coronavirus, the premises of Belur Math will remain closed to visitors and devotees from April 22,” said Swami Suvirananda, the general secretary of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission. Over the last week as numbers kept rising across India, th...
More than 100 shanties next to the Udbodhan building in Bagbazar were gutted in a fire that triggered serial explosions, probably from domestic LPG cylinders, on Wednesday evening. The fire started around 6.45pm and by 11pm, the blaze was under control but firemen were still working to douse the embers. Hundreds of people who had lost their homes were on Central Avenue. No casualty had been reported, police said. Evening traffic in north and central Calcutta was thrown out of gear as affected residents from the shanties descended on streets. The north-bound flank of Central Avenue and Udbodha...
Major fire breaks out at Slum in Kolkata's Bagbazar, spreads to Mayer Bari India Updated: Thursday, January 14, 2021, 17:07 [IST] Kolkata, Jan 14: A major fire broke out at a slum in Kolkata's Bagbazar area on Wednesday evening, officials said. At least 24 fire tenders were pressed into service as the blaze engulfed several houses in the slum on Kshirode Vidyavinode Avenue beside the Bagbazar Women's College near the Chitpore Lock Gate Bridge, they said. Representational Image Blasts were heard in the slum which police suspect to be of gas cylinders at the houses on fire, officials said. Ther...