The state health department has asked NRS Medical College and Hospital and Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital to begin Covid-19 tests from the first week of June.The Bengal government has ...

A scooterist plying along the AJC Bose Road flyover died after his throat got entangled in a glass powder-coated kite thread near Park Circus on Saturday evening, police said.Akhtar Khan, 40, a reside...

A doctor was allegedly slapped by the husband of a patient after she died in hospital early on Thursday. The deceased person’s family has brought charges of medical negligence against the doctor and...

Three kids were injured in a crude bomb explosion at Ghutiari Sharif in South 24-Parganas on Tuesday afternoon. The bomb was kept in a bag behind the house of a man named Rajjak Sardar, police said. T...

A two-wheeler rider in his 30s died after falling from Parama flyover on Saturday evening. Kamalesh Singh, a resident of Karl Marx Sarani, was speeding and fell from the flyover, cops said. He landed ...

Nursing students at Calcutta National Medical College are spending an hour twice a week learning how to communicate in English. The hospital authorities have decided to train the students to acquaint ...

Namita Sardar was resting under a banyan tree barely a few yards from the serpentine queue that led to Kachua Loknath temple around 2.45am on Friday.She and her husband Sujoy Sardar were about to join...

A motorcyclist was killed in a collision with a bus on Basanti Highway in Chowbhaga on Saturday morning. Sujoy Bar, 28, a resident of Sahabad in the Dhapa area and his wife Rina, who was riding pillio...

A four-year-old boy was crushed to death under the debris of a defunct office that was being pulled down in Nonadanga on Tuesday morning.Angry neighbours held a protest, refusing to let police remove ...

Emergency services at the NRS Hospital and Medical College, which had been shut since junior doctors went on strike on Tuesday, resumed on Saturday morning.Patients turning up at the emergency ward si...