A 30-year-old woman was found murdered in a rented house at Chhit Kalikapur, off EM Bypass in southeast Kolkata, on Sunday afternoon. Police suspect the man with whom she shared her room killed her. ...

The body of a 55-year-old man was found floating in a pond at Parnasree in southwest Kolkata’s Behala late on Friday. Police have identified the deceased as Anupam Roy Chowdhury. Residents of t...

The New Town authorities will install 300 CCTV cameras at all bicycle docking stations and community markets in New Town. The cameras will be all-weather ones, equipped with night vision. Each dockin...

Overhead Internet and television cables have been removed from a stretch of Harish Mukherjee Road four years after the Kolkata Municipal Corporation first spoke of the possibility of taking the wires ...

A glass of water: A daughter of the couple was the first to find a glass of water in the kitchen. The police said the glass of water suggested the presence of a person the victims knew and had offered...

Safer and cleaner The block’s security secretary Rohan Chatterjee said the cameras have, in fact, made things easier for their four night guards of the block. “Previously the guards woul...

The special bench of the National Green Tribunal has passed a series of directives on H.K. Dwivedi, the chief secretary of the West Bengal government, on minimising pollution in the Kestopur and Bagjo...

Kolkata police have started a drive to identify vehicles involved in hit-and-run cases. In most of the cases the offending vehicles fled the accident spot leaving the victim to die on the road, police...

An elderly couple watching television after lunch on the ground floor of their two-storey Behala residence in southwest Kolkata was robbed by a man who scaled the building and entered the house throug...

The decomposed body of Kundu, who had been living alone since the death of his wife a few years ago, was found wrapped in a polythene sheet and a bedsheet under a bed in his apartment in Bijoygarh in ...