Kolkata Eight fishermen have been killed and one is missing after a boat capsized 60 kilometres off Bay of Bengal when a tornado hit it on Friday. The trawler set out to sea on September 18 with 17 fishermen on board from Kwakdip in the Sundarban areas of South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. Joy Krishna Haldar, general secretary …
Amid heavy rain that disrupted normal life in West Bengal, 49 fishermen, who had ventured into the Bay of Bengal from Diamond Harbour and Kwakdip near the Sundarbans on Saturday, are stranded in the sea. Joy Krishna Haldar, general secretary of the United Fishermen Association of West Bengal, told The Hindu that they “pleaded” with the Coast Guard and Navy …
