Calcutta

A Class X student returning home from tuition was allegedly accosted by two motorcycle-borne youths, dragged into a room and splashed with beer in Baruipur on Thursday evening.

Six workers of a paper pulp factory in Naihati's Hazinagar died of suspected gas poisoning on Thursday when they fell into a well into which waste material used to be dumped.

Lack of communication is the most common of all complaints against doctors that are lodged with the West Bengal Medical Council, several members said on Friday.

St Xavier's School, Haldia, is changing hands after more than four decades as a Jesuit institution primarily because the two public sector companies that fund it have been opposing academic decisions, sources said.

A 25-year-old woman has lodged a complaint with Bidhannagar North police station accusing a disc jockey of a Park Street nightclub of kissing her without her consent inside his car early on Friday.

Rare black-and-white footage, voice clips, pictures and memorabilia of Rabindranath Tagore and famous persons known to him and his family will soon be available on social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

Pinkathon, India's biggest women's run, is back in town to make the ladies, including mothers with babies on slings, hit the ground running before daybreak this Sunday.

Multiple teams armed with sledgehammers and pneumatic drills worked in shifts throughout Friday to pull down three buildings standing in the way of the elevated New Garia-Airport Metro corridor in Mohishgote, the gateway to New Town.

Good Friday prayers at the Sacred Heart Church in Esplanade and at the Missionaries of Charity.Pictures by Pradip Sanyal

A battle has just been won but Sanjoy Roy's wife is focused on the next one, to be fought in a consumer forum for compensation from Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals on grounds of alleged medical negligence leading to her husband's death.