An outgoing Calcutta Municipal Corporation councillor has in a Facebook post requested people to not burst firecrackers this Diwali, citing the threat posed by “poisonous gas” to Covid-19 ...

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Several hospitals in the city have admitted more dengue patients in October than in previous months this year, and CMC officials attributed the rise in numbers to more people stepping out of their hom...

The uploading of data on the prevalence of comorbidities among Calcuttans, which was supposed to be done before Durga Puja, is far from complete, government and Calcutta Municipal Corporation official...

Schools are calculating what fees they can charge after the Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to immediately interfere with Calcutta High Court’s order to waive 20 per cent of tuition fees and...

“Every evening our heartfelt desire was to sit around Thakurda and listen to stories. The whole day would be spent in studying, running small errands for our mothers and grandmothers, in school ...

Calcutta has toppled Hyderabad to become the most affordable city for buying property in the country even as doubts persist if this will be an incentive enough for homebuyers to come out and shop. A ...

For 32-year-old Ruby Khan, the air bubble gave her a chance to go back to her husband and son. Khan had come to India to visit her husband’s relatives in Ghatal, West Midnapore, and got stuck f...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to immediately interfere with Calcutta High Court’s directions to private schools in Bengal to waive 20 per cent of their tuition fees and completely waiv...

The North 24-Parganas district administration on Tuesday morning started the cleansing of the Ichhamati river following the pollution of water during immersion of idols on Dashami. The authorities of...