People were out on the streets on the city’s northern outskirts, including in Lake Town, Bangur and parts of Dum Dum, on Monday with scant regard for distancing rules. The South Dum Dum Municip...

Cyclones usually lose steam after making landfall but even a depleted Amphan kept surging through land like a raging bull because of its high wind speed, which peaked at 185kmph during landfall.In add...

Winds howling in at over 180km an hour slammed the Bengal coast as Cyclone Amphan made landfall as a 'very severe cyclonic storm'.At 5.52pm, the Alipore weather office recorded a wind speed of 112km a...

When an octogenarian waved down a police patrol from his window on Saturday, the officers thought he wanted some help. The police team was taken aback when they heard about the real reason.The 82-year...

Train services between Dum Dum and Belghoria were suspended for one-and-a-half hours on Tuesday after a group of people put up a blockade to protest the deaths of a girl and her grandfather who were c...

Passengers will be allowed into the terminal building of the city airport and to board a flight without any physical identity proof once a facial recognition technology is installed early next year, o...

Passengers catching flights from Calcutta will be denied what is considered a basic facility at most airports — inline baggage screening — at least till mid-January, officials said on Tuesday.Thos...

At least five policemen at Lake Town police station are down with dengue and several others with fever, an officer of the Bidhannagar commissionerate said on Wednesday. The list includes officers of t...

Among Puja revellers in Calcutta this year will be a group of corporate bigwigs flying in from all over the world. The men and women in their mid-50s are usually busy running companies but in the comi...

On the first anniversary of the abrogation of Section 377 of IPC, two pujas are embracing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people who are usually left on the margins.At Dum Dum Ta...