Calcutta

Razzak Mandal, 51, of Buxipur near Murshidabad's Domkol has been breaking down frequently since a call from his 21-year-old son Dalim snapped on Monday.

Two youths were beaten up in front of Garia station on Friday night after a parking row with men who allegedly control the Garia-Narendrapur auto route.

Her father died of cancer five years ago. Her mother runs a paan shop by Kharagpur station to run the family and ensure her education.

Fifty colleges in Calcutta and in the districts are set to get full-time principals by the first week of next month.

The state Joint Entrance Examination board will hold the second phase of counselling for filling 216 of the 705 undergraduate seats at Presidency University.

The liquor made from mahua flowers, a centuries-old traditional drink in the tribal belt of Bengal's western districts, will be available in the city in a few months.

Two youths on a bike were injured when the two-wheeler collided with a bus on Judges Court Road in Alipore on Friday night.

A 14-year-old boy returning home from school lost balance and fell on the road when his bag got entangled in a hook protruding out of a moving Tata Ace on Friday.

Several participants at a tourism conclave on Saturday urged Bengal to add more international flights and sell itself harder to improve tourism in the state.

Parameswaran Thankappan Nair or P.T. Nair says that in all likelihood he was the first to write an anthology on Job Charnock, the Englishman who is said to have founded Calcutta (as we know it) 328 years ago, almost to this date. He doesn't quite agree with the founding theory though, nor with the other theory about August 24 being the city's birthday.