Several complaints regarding waterbody fill-up and administrative inaction have prompted the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to create a mechanism to ensure that each such complaint is looked into...

A meeting between the police, representatives of the clubs and officials of the KMDA, custodian of the lake, that was scheduled for Thursday has been deferred, sources in the state administration said...

Club officials were tight-lipped on what happened at the meeting, convened by the Bengal Rowing Association and held at the Calcutta Rowing Club. The final set of SOP will be decided at a meeting on ...

Complete care Sir — The environment ministry has notified Ramgarh Vishdhari Wildlife Sanctuary as a tiger reserve. This area is considered by conservationists as critical to the tigers’ m...

Police will be accountable for illegal filling of water bodies and so will be the engineers from the building department of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), mayor Firhad Hakim said on Wednesday. ...

The Telegraph had reported in April about the township’s lack of transport options and the residents’ demand for more buses linking New Town with other parts of the city. The need for ade...

City residents can now upload pictures and state their complaints about civic services through a new WhatsApp service that the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) will launch next week Show to Mayor...

Four senior Calcutta High Court advocates told The Telegraph the traders would get a compensation order in their favour if the court was convinced about their losses. “The traders can seek inte...

The facade has a giant Jamini Roy style painting with graphic wall fins. “We tried to make the architecture welcoming. In the ground floor, the oval public space that opens out to the lawn is de...

The 16.6-km-long East-West corridor, connecting the twin cities of Calcutta and Howrah, is under construction in the congested area, marked by several old and dilapidated structures. A senior Calcutt...