Two 10ftx8ft shutters converted the first floor of Readymade Centre into a 2,000-sq-ft gas chamber on Friday afternoon.

Litchi traders have gone bananas over the Calcutta Municipal Corporation's decision to uproot them from a place where they have been doing business for two decades.

Kaushik Chatterjee was outside Readymade Centre on his motorbike when he saw smoke.

May 16: Forensic experts who visited Basanti today to inquire into yesterday's explosion, which killed a minister's relative, did not rule out the possibility of explosives being stored in the house.

Calcutta, May 16: CPM state secretary Biman Bose today stepped up his damage control drive by calling up allies and appealing to them and his own party workers to avoid a rerun of the violence that marked the second phase of the rural polls on Wednesday.

Behrampore, May 16: For a village panchayat in Murshidabad, the Trinamul Congress, Congress and the BJP have joined hands.