The Mamata Banerjee government on Thursday transferred eight district magistrates in a major bureaucratic reshuffle ahead of next year’s panchayat polls. “Most of the DMs had spent three ...

Spread the love Sir — Every year on Valentine’s Day, advertisements are replete with youthful, heteronormative and able-bodied couples showing their love for each other. Even if there is ...

The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation has started the repairs but their engineers are relying on patchwork — a layer of bitumen that is laid over craters — as a quick-fix solution. Krishn...

The CMDA has started the process of hiring a consultant who will prepare a report on the possible impact of a proposed flyover on the ecologically fragile East Calcutta Wetlands. A tender inviting ap...

The Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) will conduct a “condition assessment” of EM Bypass, which had last received a coat of top layer in 2013 and gets riddled with cracks ...

The civic bodies in Calcutta and Bidhannagar will put up posters at their parks announcing that only fully vaccinated people would be allowed in. The CMDA has asked guards at its parks to check wheth...

Work on erecting barricades along the stretch of the Vivekananda Road flyover that will be pulled down in the first phase, began on Friday. Labourers dug holes on Strand Road to put up bamboo poles. ...

The dismantling of the Vivekananda Road flyover will be done in four phases beginning from the middle of June, more than five years after a 41-metre portion of the flyover collapsed killing 26 people....

A private car hit three pedestrians and a bicyclist near the RK Chatterjee Road and Rashbehari connector early on Wednesday morning.  The accused driver was arrested for rash and negligent drivi...

The police have also been making announcements to evacuate endangered buildings that are vulnerable to gusty winds. The CMC is opening several cyclone shelters across the city where people living in d...