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Street lights that brighten by up to 40 per cent when it detects an approaching vehicle will be installed in all three action areas of the township.These lights turn on automatically when it gets dark...

“From 2,500 tigers to 2,700 tigers is not a big leap. The problem is that there is a shift in baselines. At the turn of the century there were 1,400 tigers in 2006, that’s the new baseline. The sh...

The Mamata Banerjee administration has asked all government primary and secondary schools to observe Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday on October 2 on their premises, bucking the trend of Bengal’s holiday...

I was in central Calcutta’s Bowbazar area five days after 52 houses in the neighbourhood came crashing down because of the troubled East-West Metro tunnel boring operation. “Just imagine,” says ...

 The Mitra Sangha Puja committee here will showcase Adivasi lifestyle in their 37th edition of Durga Puja this year.A total of 22 skilled artisans from Calcutta are making the pandal.Committee se...

Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Saturday said the people of Barak Valley need not worry as their safety and security is the responsibility of the government, apparently dispelling fear and ...

Atifa Shahnaz Begum and Chara Al-Firdausi of Guwahati are inspiring protagonists of a mother-daughter story. And when Atifa presented Chara with the TTEF Award for Courage and kissed on her head durin...

Chandan Chandra has no time to sleep or eat these days. He wakes up long before daybreak, takes a quick bath at the well beside his tenement and cycles 25 kilometres to reach his makeshift studio. Thi...

On the first anniversary of the abrogation of Section 377 of IPC, two pujas are embracing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people who are usually left on the margins.At Dum Dum Ta...

BJP national working president Jagat Prakash Nadda on Friday hit out at Mamata Banerjee over her stand on Narendra Modi government’s abrogation of Article 370 on Jammu and Kashmir, accusing her of p...