Business is down in all sectors but in a cruel turn of events, photo studios are inundated with calls. With so many deaths in the Covid second wave, there are that many families requiring framed photo...

NKDA has been trying to build a crematorium in New Town. “We had earmarked a plot near the Hanuman Temple behind Eco Park about four months ago but local villagers got wind from the placard put ...

Hemanta Kumar Nayak, the relative of a Covid victim, said: “My uncle Bijay Kumar Nayak, who was a priest in a church in Jatani, passed away last Sunday. When we brought his body for burial, the ...

Bengal on Friday reported a drop by 7,348 in total active Covid-19 cases, which fell to 1.09 lakh, as it reported 19,396 recoveries and 12,193 infections, besides 145 deaths. Bengal now has 4.95 per ...

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Joefred and Ralfred Gregory moved through life as one. They went to the same college. They studied the same thing. They wore matching clothes. They trimmed their beards the exact same way. Identical...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday highlighted some significant positive aspects of Bengal’s fight against the second wave of Covid-19, on a day the state reported a rise by only 19 in t...

A newly-wed bride in Odisha died of Covid-19 on Saturday after allegedly failing to get a hospital bed in the state capital of Bhubaneswar. Swarnalata, 25, breathed her last in an ambulance. Her husb...

Long line-ups for space to cremate loved ones, crematoriums operating 24/7, parking lots turned into cremation grounds, bodies floating down the Ganges. The evidence is overwhelming that the real deat...

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday issued an advisory to all states to ensure the dignified disposal of bodies on the ground that the fundamental right to life and dignity guarantee...