The party pressed the Modi government asking why it cannot do so when it can spend thousands of crores on a new aircraft for the prime minister...

Calcutta reported 236 new infections and two deaths. North 24-Parganas reported 159 new infections and three casualties...

For ordinary mortals who live or grow up near a crematorium, deaths and corpses are part of daily existence...

The state snapped out of a 97-day streak of constant fall in its active cases on September 26...

The state’s recovery rate is 98.32%, while the national rate is 98.05% now...

The total number of active cases, or people being treated for Covid-19, fell by 81 to 7,576 on Mahanavami, the penultimate day of Durga Puja, Bengal’s biggest festival...

The total of active cases fell by 15 to 7,657...

Active caseload lowest in 208 days...

Compensation to be disbursed from disaster relief funds within 30 days of submitting application...

Country records 22,842 coronavirus infections, 244 deaths...