A 13-member committee of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation will submit a short-term plan to combat the city’s air pollution within a fortnight, mayor Firhad Hakim said on Tuesday. The committee, co...

The Calcutta Municipal Corporation on Saturday snipped television and Internet cables in some places that were, at times, a risk to pedestrians and two-wheeler riders.Civic officials, however, could n...

Calcuttans came out in large numbers and more offices opened but public transport was scarce.Hundreds of people were waiting at bus stops for a commute home till late Monday evening. The number of bus...

A 30-minute downpour flooded Calcutta on Sunday afternoon.The waterlogged roads brought back memories of May 20 when Cyclone Amphan had wreaked havoc in the city.Stretches of Esplanade, Park Street, C...

The Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) has issued a notice asking all its employees to attend office from Monday.The notice issued on Saturday by the municipal commissioner said “all the departmen...

The Bengal government said on Thursday that 58 new Covid-19 cases had been reported in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of active cases in the state to 334. Twenty-four people have been disc...

Rapid antibody blood tests for Covid-19 will soon be introduced in Bengal as a “surveillance tool”, the health department said on Sunday.The rapid tests are likely to begin in the city on Monday ...

Calcutta Municipal Corporation personnel will try to visit every home in the city from this week to seek out anyone suffering from fever in an exercise aimed at detecting any silent Covid-19 carrier.C...

Government officials should not forget dengue while the fight against Covid-19 is on, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Monday.“Please carry on the work needed to prevent dengue. Ensure that a ...

Applications to obtain birth and death certificates from the Calcutta Municipal Corporation are likely to be submitted online from April, a civic official said on Monday.The move will provide relief t...