It is one of a kind and is also the sixth largest bridge in the whole world. It is 2150 feet in length with a suspending span that right above the Hooghly River. The bridge was commissioned in ...

Two of the nation's most spectacular bridges -- the Howrah Bridge and the Second Hooghly Bridge were built by Braithwaite Burn and Jessop Construction Company. The West Bengal government now plans ...

The riverbank at Nimtala Ghat, Ratan Babu Ghat and Ahiritola Ghat, and under Millennium Park has eroded, said an official of ...

But public transport was scanty: the only road link between Kolkata and Howrah at that time was a pontoon bridge across the Hooghly. Boats would also take commuters across the river. The famous ...

He was injured after a truck hit the two-wheeler he was riding pillion on the second Hooghly Bridge near Nabanna along with his father. He was on way to a coaching institute in Kolkata. His father, ...

Amid the year-end parties and picnics in and around Kolkata, the holiday season limelight, for once, shifted to Prinsep Ghat ...