At least three persons, including a woman, were killed and 34 others injured, some of them seriously after an overhead colonial-era water tank collapsed over waiting passengers at Burdwan Railway station about 110 km from Kolkata.
The accident occurred at about 12.10 pm Eastern Railways sources
The overhead tank, constructed in 1890 with a capacity of 2.5 lakh litres, was placed above platforms 2 and 3, and collapsed around 12.08pm when over 100 passengers were waiting to board trains
West Bengal State Election Commission will be approaching a division bench of Calcutta High Court's Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharya on Thursday with a review petition on the earlier order by the same bench for .
Till Wednesday evening, the commission had not taken any decision on the deployment of central armed forces. Now with the decision to approach the Calcutta High Court with the review petition, the opposition parties have started questioning how sincere the commission is about ensuring free and fair polls in the rural civic body elections.Mean