CESC net up 6% The CESC has recorded 6 per cent rise in profit in the first quarter to Rs 297 crore on a consolidated basis, compared to Rs 280 crore earned in the same period of the last fiscal. Rev...

Be ready to suffer more pocket pinch as your electricity bills are likely to go up. The Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation (CESC) might consider hiking power tariffs owing to high fuel costs, its c...

A common mynah that had flown into a web of kite strings and electricity wires around 40 feet above the road in Dum Dum Park was rescued on Sunday in an operation that stretched more than eight hours....

Farzan’s father, Fakruddin Ansari, 48, has been working as a car mechanic in Saudi Arabia for four years. He came to Kolkata about 20 days back on a four-month holiday. The boy’s mother,...

“We are waiting for a report from the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), which is running an investigation to identify the cause of death,” an officer said.    At Narkeld...

A youth who was in the rescue team said there was no pump there when Farzan was electrocuted. KMC engineers said a tap of the civic body is located next to the electric pole, which the residents said ...

Two Kolkatans lost around Rs 7.7 lakh on Friday and Saturday after responding to text messages threatening to disconnect power supplies to their homes if they did not pay Rs 11. Senior officers of Ko...

The Bengal board’s higher secondary examinations began on April 2. After a break because of the byelections to the Ballygunge Assembly seat and the Asansol parliamentary constituency, the exams ...

“I saw Shahid holding a gun with both his hands, aiming at me. He pulled the trigger several times but I am not sure whether shots were fired. I immediately bent down to collect a brick so that ...

CESC had claimed in its submission to the WBERC that there has been a sharp increase in fuel prices and urged the regulator to consider an upward revision in tariff. “The financial years of 201...