Allegedly, a power line which is passing over the shops snapped resulting in the fire, which then spread to nearby shops after gas cylinders in the shops exploded.
Sleuths from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday said it recovered Rs 1.5 crore from a Kolkata businessman in connection with the multi-crore coal-smuggling case.
Cash worth Rs 1 crore was recovered from a car in South Kolkata's Gariahat, the police said on Thursday, adding that two persons were detained in connection with the incident.
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has constituted a nine-member Committee headed by the chief secretary for remedial action against the environmental degradation of the Sundarbans in West Bengal.
This comes after the ministry received several reports about the alleged misuse of funds in West Bengal under the PM Poshan Scheme. Instances of deviations in the implementation of the Scheme have also been reported in the media.
The case pertains to July 30, 2022, when the three Congress MLAs from Jharkhand were detained in West Bengal's Howrah district after a huge amount of cash was found in their vehicle.
Darjeeling BJP MP and party youth general secretary Raju Bista has slammed Trinamool Congress Member of Parliament Abhishek Banerjee for saying that if anyone has difficulty in filing nominations, he would process it for them.