A controversy has broken out after Saturday’s Rabindra Sarobar tragedy on whether the rowing clubs at the lake have a dedicated cadre to watch the boats and issue timely warnings about changes i...

“Uprooted trees as well as those that lost significant portions to the storm total 50, at least,” said a KMC official. Hundreds of trees fell in the city during Cyclone Amphan in May 2020...

A 90kmph Nor’wester tore through Calcutta late on Saturday afternoon, felling trees and lamp posts, sending billboards flying, choking traffic and disrupting Metro services. At the Salt Lake St...

The house of a patachitra artist in Diamond Harbour got damaged in the first squall of the season around 10 days back but the woman with a three-year-old son managed to hold an exhibition on Sunday to...

The NGO has been teaching literacy and numeracy skills to the children. “An English-medium school is our USP. We saw that not only the students but also the parents were keen to send their chil...

A cyclonic circulation that formed over the South Andaman Sea on Wednesday is set to transform into a depression by this weekend. It is still too early to predict if the system will intensify into a ...

Several trees on Ballygunge Circular Road in south Kolkata have been hacked randomly in the name of pruning, alleged environment activists. An horticulturist with the Kolkata Municipal Corporation de...

The bees are back in the Sunderbans after two years as the forest recovers from the assault of Cyclone Amphan. Their return has prompted foresters to revive honey collection in the mangrove forests. ...

• He started wearing glasses after 1920 • He stuck to the round glasses from 1930 onwards • The last time he got his eyes tested and ordered a new pair of glasses was on June 2, 1947,...

The Bengal government on Sunday waived the trade licence fee that stall owners at the International Kolkata Book Fair have paid for the 45th edition. The move came days after chief minister Mama...