Calcutta

The fire inside the abandoned cargo ship MV SSL Kolkata has died out on its own, a salvage team comprising experts from various countries confirmed after the first thorough inspection of the vessel.

Around 2,000 squatters need to be removed and "substantial" land acquired for the Airport-Barasat Metro to have any chance of completion, according to a communication from the railways to the Bengal government.

Some looked excited, some were a tad shy. Girls from Shanti Rani Rainbow Home in Tollygunge attended a fest hosted by La Martiniere for Boys on Friday. 

A WBCS officer's Id gift to his father is a promise to turn a barber's shop run by the 71-year-old in a tiled-roofed hut in Samserganj, Murshidabad, into an air-conditioned salon.

A study on quality of water brought together schoolchildren from Calcutta and Kentucky.

Two groups of students clashed with lathis and stones in front of Dinabandhu Andrews College in Garia on the first day undergraduate admission on Friday.

An elderly woman was injured after being hit by a bus while trying to cross the road in front of the city police headquarters in Lalbazar on Friday afternoon.

Shukla Chatterjee usually takes a train to Sodepur on her way home from her Salt Lake office in the evening. On Friday, however, she took a pool ride.

A 50-year-old man was crushed to death by a bus on Maniktala Main Road, in front of the gate of Bengal Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Ltd, on Tuesday afternoon.

Three motorcyclists were injured in two accidents in Calcutta on Friday.