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Kolkata Overpass Collapse Leaves Dozens Dead or Injured
New York Times ^ | Mar 31, 2016 | Hari Kumar and Nida Najar

Posted on 03/31/2016 8:43:43 PM PDT by Ray76

Rescue teams in Kolkata, India, scrambled on Thursday to retrieve scores of people believed to be trapped under a partly constructed vehicle overpass that collapsed with a deafening blast around midday.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: calcutta; collapse; india; kolkata; overpass
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To: cgbg

“I didn’t know Calcutta is now Kolkata.”

Are you sure they’re not just using the John Kerry pronunciation?


21 posted on 04/01/2016 4:15:59 AM PDT by BobL (A vote for Cruz...is now a vote for Romney / Jeb / Linda / Ryan (at the convention))
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To: wideminded

New Downtown airport?


22 posted on 04/01/2016 4:28:31 AM PDT by ken5050 (Trump: "I'm no conservative, but I sure can play one on TV")
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To: wideminded

I see stupidity on a massive level.


23 posted on 04/01/2016 4:32:18 AM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: Bullish
uh huh... And the India people are said to be superior in intelligence

They're not. The average IQ in India is 82.

But in a country of over a billion people, you have lots of very smart people (if you only look at the top 1%), and THOSE are the ones who get the H1B visas.

24 posted on 04/01/2016 4:40:40 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: OrangeHoof

It doesn’t bother them. Indians are pretty fatalistic. If a lower castre person dies he obviously deserved it.


25 posted on 04/01/2016 4:53:18 AM PDT by stellaluna
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To: cgbg

It’s their country. They’ve been saying Mumbai and Kolkata for a long time.


26 posted on 04/01/2016 4:56:19 AM PDT by stellaluna
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To: cgbg
This is an interesting article:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/jul/22/suzannegoldenberg
Apparently almost no-one lived in the city before the British occupied the area—so the attempt to deny the city’s imperial roots is to deny its real history.
In short—political correctness run amok.


As well as communism, according to your most interesting article from 1999! Thanks for the link. I have gotten used to Mumbai over the years, but this is the first I've heard of Kolkata after apparently 17 years of anti-colonial commie action over there. Amazing.

27 posted on 04/01/2016 11:22:08 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: wideminded

It’s what is known in India as a flyover, a way for people to bypass heavy traffic on the street below.


28 posted on 04/16/2016 6:56:59 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Stick a fork in America; she's done.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I looked at some pictures of Indian “flyovers” and they mostly look more or less normal, although there was another smaller collapse in Kolkata in 2013. But this one looks to have been very strangely constructed even before it fell down.


29 posted on 04/16/2016 8:54:56 AM PDT by wideminded
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