Calcutta

The head of Jadavpur University's English department, Abhijit Gupta, fears the decision to engage external experts to prepare one set of questions for the entrance tests in six undergraduate arts courses would "result in massive dilution" of academic standard.

A slice of Bagha Jatin turned into Buenos Aires on Saturday evening. A group of employees in an architecture firm in Ballygunge, clad in blue and white shirts, were glued to a 43-inch screen normally used for video-conferencing with clients.

Residents of Sunny Park have reacted strongly to the statements of a houseowner in the Ballygunge locality claiming he had not felled more than two trees on his plot.

The construction of the New Garia station for the New Garia-Airport Metro link remained stalled for the fourth consecutive day on Saturday because the labourers were too scared to resume work without proper security.

Syndicates charge at least 15 per cent more than the market rate; syndicates supply less than the billed quantity and they do not often deliver the promised quality.

Traffic went haywire on Vidyasagar Setu on Saturday morning when a container truck hit the divider and turned on its side.

An eight-year-old boy drowned in a drum of water in the bathroom of his home in Metiabruz on Friday. Raju Das was taken to hospital where doctors declared him dead, police said.

Narcotics Control Bureau officers arrested a 29-year-old man in Bhowanipore on Friday night on the charge of peddling party drugs such as Ecstasy and LSD.

A civic team found accumulated water inside a building under construction on the Jadavpur University premises on Saturday.

If there was no Chinese community in Calcutta, there would have been no rickshaw, no Darjeeling tea and no noodles for us.