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Kanpur: Notices to 429 owners asking to demolish rundown buildings

Kanpur: Kanpur Municipal Corporation (KMC) has issued notices to owners of 429 dilapidated houses of the city asking them to demolish the rundown buildings as they pose danger to their inhabitants.

The Times of India

Electrocution death in Kolkata: Expert panel finds gross negligence

KOLKATA: After finding gross negligence in the electrocution death in Haridevpur, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) on Wednesday asked senior officials of several essential services departments to work in coordination to avert such tragic incidents in future.

The Times of India

Nepal deploys security forces during challenge to law and odour

Nepalese authorities recently called out security forces to help clear the garbage from Kathmandu after protesters blocked access to landfills accusing authorities of ignoring health concerns of residents living near the stinking mountains of trash.

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KMC to deploy senior officials at pumping stations on rainy days

KOLKATA: As the city awaits the first heavy spell of rain this monsoon, the KMC drainage department has taken special measures to ensure that drainage pumping stations that flush out storm water from the city’s waterlogging-prone pockets do not falter on days when it pours. A KMC official said the…

The Times of India

Kolkata: KMC, fire department agree on high-rise definition

KOLKATA: Developers of three to four-storey buildings will no longer have to go through the fire NOC and other formalities that is mandatory for developers of high-rises. The West Bengal Fire Services (Amendment) bill, 2022, was passed at the state assembly on Friday, which states that from now on the…

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Kolkata: Behala gets new booster station

KOLKATA: Water woes in large parts of Behala are set to come to an end with the KMC water supply department taking up projects to supply potable water from Garden Reach waterworks to ban indiscriminate use of ground water in near future.

The Times of India

Karnataka Medical Council suspends doctor for 6 months over botched op

BENGALURU: The Karnataka Medical Council (KMC) on June 4 suspended the licence of Dr Mohammed Irshad Ahmed for six months in a five-year-old medical negligence case pertaining to a knee-replacement surgery.

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Drive against water theft in Kolkata

KOLKATA: KMC will conduct a drive against water theft in large parts of the Jadavpur-Santoshpur belt. Speaking at the KMC monthly meeting on Saturday, Nandita Roy, a CPM councillor representing Santoshpur area, complained against a section of residents of multi-storey buildings who are drawing potable water from the main source…

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Kolkata: Amherst Street booster station land identified

KOLKATA: KMC has identified a parcel of land in Shraddhananda Park for the construction of a capsule booster pumping station. The formal construction of the booster pumping station with a capacity to produce 0.5 million gallons of potable water every day will begin after a nod from the state government.

The Times of India

Kolkata: Mayor to write to state govt on death certificate norms

KOLKATA: City mayor Firhad Hakim will write to the state health department to simplify the procedure to obtain copies of death certificates.

The Times of India

Kolkata Municipal Corporation set to install bins in hawking zones

KOLKATA: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will install waste bins in hawking zones dominated by food hawkers. The move is prompted after repeated complaints of food wastes being dumped on the road, resulting in clogged drainage system, said member, mayor-in-council, Debasish Kumar.

The Times of India

Kolkata Municipal Corporation focus on markets as mask norm goes for a toss

KOLKATA: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) brass is keeping a close watch on rampant violations of the mask rule at major municipal markets. According to a KMC health department official, civic medical officers in the boroughs have been asked to coordinate with markets department officials and conduct an awareness drive…

The Times of India

TDP corporators oppose move to hand over municipal schools in Kurnool to A.P. govt.

KMC allocates ₹5.20 crore for addressing drinking water crisis

The Hindu

KMC set to raze 10 vulnerable Bowbazar buildings

KOLKATA: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation buildings department will issue notice to the owners of 10 residential buildings on Durga Pithuri Lane, asking them to vacate their houses as it has been found in a survey, conducted by experts, that these buildings cannot be repaired.

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Tension as KMC begins eviction of 110 families, JSP Kakinada Chief arrested

Many families alleged that they were given house site pattas a few hours before commencing the eviction drive

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KMC wants Modi to end silence

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Kolhapur Municipal Corporation to operate garbage vans daily till midnight

KOLHAPUR: The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to operate auto-tipper vehicles, that collect solid waste, till midnight every day to ensure that waste is not thrown in open spaces and drains.

The Times of India

Getting spl death certificate, copy from KMC proves a hurdle

KOLKATA: Issuance of death certificates for those who didn’t live in Kolkata but have recently died here, and getting copies of death certificates for Kolkata residents who died three decades ago, are proving to be difficult. In the former case, the civic authorities are directing families to seek redressal elsewhere.…

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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…

The Times of India

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…

The Times of India

Kolkata: KMC clinics to start cancer screening

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

The Times of India

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…

The Times of India

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…

The Hindu

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

The Times of India

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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