The Alipore Zoological Garden in Kolkata has reopened its premises for public viewing on Wednesday after almost a 5-month-long break.  The Alipore zoo in Kolkata had closed its doors for vi...

From Thursday, Metro Railway will run 216 trains every weekday, further down from the current fleet of 238 trains, an official said. The Metro daily passenger count, which had touched 1.8 lakh in Mar...

A zebra gave birth to a baby at Alipore Zoo on March 26. The female foal, weighing around 25kg, was let out in the open in front of visitors on Friday. The latest star in stripes takes the herd streng...

Each photograph has a story to tell and has deep-rooted emotions attached. The concept of the city has many interpretations and subjective meanings, which the exhibition has attempted to capture by sh...

A man scaled a 14ft-high boundary wall and jumped into the lions’ enclosure at the Alipore zoo on Friday morning, after which the animal dragged him around 30ft into its shelter. The man, with ...

Two dhole (also called Asiatic wild dog) puppies, born at Alipore Zoo on December 22 last year, were displayed for the first time on Saturday. The dhole (Cuon alpinus) is an average sized canine foun...

Two guards and one supervisor at the Alipore zoo have been taken off the roster for “negligence of duty" following the alleged theft of three exotic birds from an enclosure, officials said ...

The zoo has some 90 CCTV cameras and around two dozen guards are deployed at night. But the cameras do not cover all enclosures properly, said sources in the zoo. In August 2009, eight marmosets wer...

The footfall has been on the rise at the zoo, Science City and the Victoria Memorial.  The average week-day footfall at the zoo was 5,000 in the middle of November. Now, it has climbed up to aro...

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