Pratim Chatterjee

15 years till 2011, passed away today, family sources said.

West Bengal fire services minister pratim chatterjee was prevented by locals from entering a village in this district for election campaigning on Monday.

State fire services minister pratim chatterjee was wise in not turning up at Park Street on Tuesday afternoon to take stock of the situation.

Election is knocking on the door and there's no time to lose. That was the message from state fire services minister pratim chatterjee to eminent filmmaker Tarun Majumder, who had approached the talented politician to play the lead in his tele-serial, Durgeshnandini.

Ammonia gas, allegedly leaking from a cold storage in a crowded Manicktala locality since Sunday night, triggered a fireball that could have turned into one of the biggest tragedies Kolkata has seen.

KOLKATA: A five-member committee will probe into the Burrabazar fire that gutted property worth crores of rupees in the wee hours on Saturday, West Bengal Fire Services Minister pratim chatterjee said.

KOLKATA: The West Bengal health department on Wednesday deputed a group of senior doctors to investigate the incident of a leading city hospital providing ‘wrong blood sugar report’ to state fire services minister pratim chatterjee.

KOLKATA: The Rangmahal theatre in Hatibagan area in northern part of the city was partially gutted in a devastating fire on Wednesday morning, fire brigade sources said.

The state government has decided to keep two fire engines stationed at Writers' Buildings so that there wouldn't be any need to call the fire brigade when a fire breaks out at the secretariat.

Fire and emergency services minister pratim chatterjee is fighting an emergency situation. But rival Rachpal Singh has nothing to do with it.

KOLKATA: Fire minister pratim chatterjee has threatened to arrest Durga Puja organisers who do not seek permission from his department before September 28. Household Pujas and those held in apartment buildings will, however, be exempt from the rule.

The state PWD on Monday gave its clearance to the super hospitality gallery at Eden Gardens after a final inspection.

A 14-year-old girl committed suicide on Thursday by jumping off the ninth-floor balcony of Amherst Street police station staff quarters.

KOLKATA: Fire fighters need to equip themselves with the latest techniques of combating a major outbreak, state fire services minister pratim chatterjee said on Friday.

KOLKATA: The turnout at the state Assembly was poor due to the three political rallies on Monday.

The flames from Stephen Court generated heat enough to singe leaders across Bengal's political divide

The state Cabinet meeting was full of sound and fury with Left Front ministers coming down heavily on chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee over the government's stand regarding the ban on Maoists.

The 'super-hospitality' box has been dogged by controversy from the beginning. Soon after the first KKR match, fire services minister pratim chatterjee refused to give the VVIP enclosure clearance saying it violated safety rules.

At least 15 huts were gutted in a major fire at a slum in Topsia in the eastern part of the city Friday morning.

SURI: West Bengal fire service minister and Marxist Forward Bloc (FB-M) leader pratim chatterjee on Saturday said allies of the ruling Left Front should refrain from airing their views in the media and try to solve their grievances at the front level.

KOLKATA: The reason behind the fire at a Burrabazar building on December 21 will be fixed by March 30, West Bengal fire services minister pratim chatterjee told the state Assembly on Monday.

More than 2500 shops and seven houses were gutted in fire at Burrabazar in Kolkata. Reason of the fire is still not known. No loss of life was reported.

KOLKATA: A huge fire broke out on Thursday night some 1.5 km away from Siliguri, after an Indian Oil Corporation pipeline on a railway bridge over river Mahananda burst.

KOLKATA: Senior Kolkata police officials said on Thursday that the Biswaroopa fire was a case of arson, and not an accident. “Our initial investigation based on apparent observations reveal that the historic stage was set ablaze,” deputy commissioner (detective department) Soumen Mitra said.

The government had arranged for Italian dishes for Abe and his entourage but the visiting premier seemed eager to try out the delicious Bengali spread as well.

There was a second fire from the same AC within 10 days at the Writers' Buildings on Thursday, raising disturbing questions on the disregard for safety of people and property.

Prabir Bhattacharya (38), a journalist working with a vernacular magazine, died following a cardiac arrest at a nursing home on Monday night. He was hospitalized on Saturday after he took ill.

With the death of thirty three people so far, the Stephen Court fire has recorded the highest-ever death toll in any fire incident in the metropolis even as search for the missing is still on.