“The potholes on the stretch leading to the Dum Dum railway underpass are very big and deep. The situation worsens on the underpass as the craters remain hidden under water and the stretch ...

“We have already spoken with the PWD and they have assured us that the stretch will be repaired before the Puja,” said Choudhury. A large circular portion of the road on the Kasba end of ...

A researcher filed a rape complaint against an assistant professor of Kalyani University’s visual arts department on Monday. Nadia police have started a probe. A case has been started on the ba...

Trinamul Congress’s Banasree Chatterjee has won the municipal election in Bangur Avenue (Ward 29 of South Dum Dum Municipality) by over 8,500 votes. She got 9,583 votes, while the BJP and the CP...

A neighbourhood in Dum Dum, which is known by the name of a colonial structure it houses, was once a part of a trade route between India and other Asian countries and China, the Archaeological Survey ...

A man, who had gone to Girish Park police station with a bandage on his head to report a robbery at his office, has been arrested for allegedly stealing gold bars and then feigning the heist. Nitish ...

The number of trains in Kolkata Metro’s North-South corridor on weekdays will go up from July 1. The carrier will run 288 trains from Monday to Friday, up from 282, between Kavi Subhas and Dum ...

2000-2013: Trinamul councillor Mriganka Bhattacharya earns laurels for giving Bangur Avenue a facelift, particularly for improved drainage systems. 2015: Ward 29 is reserved for women by the election...

Two persons were killed when the branches of a shirish tree fell on a meat shop on Jessore road at Chandpara in North 24-Parganas on Sunday morning. Police and local sources said shopowner Ratan Mond...

The work on a rainwater pumping station in north Kolkata has been stalled because of a land dispute between the state government and the railways.  Kolkata Municipal Corporation started the cons...