Calcutta

A passenger underpass that hasn't been completed in four years, a foot overbridge that was dismantled without providing an alternative to crossing the tracks, ticket counters with inadequate lighting and dark corners. Sodepur railway station is a challenge to lakhs of commuters dependent on suburban trains.

Park Street, Alipore Road and Belvedere Road will be rid of the mess of overhead cables by September-end and operators have to pay a "carrying charge" for use of the alternative ducts or channels that are to be created.

The doctor from Madhya Pradesh who was stuck in Bengal because the state government had been refusing to hand him his certificates has finally got back his papers.

Aerial yoga that involves performing seemingly impossible exercises hanging upside down from a hammock is catching up in the city among those looking for a higher adrenaline rush than an exercise mat can provide.

A hot and sultry morning, followed by a rainy afternoon that pulled down the mercury - Thursday's weather followed a pattern similar to the previous day.

Calcutta University colleges running self-financed postgraduate courses will have to admit students through a centralised system and follow a common curriculum, its syndicate, the highest decision-making body, has decided.

A set of traffic diversions will be introduced in New Town from Friday for the construction of a New Garia-Airport Metro station near Eco Park's Gate No. 4.

World Cup football has returned to 200,000 TV sets in the city that run on the signals of multi-system operator Manthan after remaining off the air for seven days.

Around 60 per cent of the upper deck of cargo ship MV SSL Kolkata has been damaged in the fire that broke out late on June 13 and is yet to be put out, a Coast Guard officer said on Thursday.

A carpenter was arrested on Thursday on the charge of stealing Rs 16 lakh from a trader's house on Middleton Street a week ago.