Be ready to suffer more pocket pinch as your electricity bills are likely to go up. The Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation (CESC) might consider hiking power tariffs owing to high fuel costs, its c...

The price of a 14.2kg domestic LPG cylinder was around Rs 840 a year ago. Now, it costs around Rs 1,080 in Kolkata, after the latest hike of Rs 50. People already reeling from inflation said the late...

“No es suficiente” — It’s not enough. That was the message protest leaders in Ecuador delivered to the country’s President this past week after he said he would lower the...

Sri Lanka increased fuel and transport prices on Tuesday, a long-flagged move to combat its debilitating economic crisis, but the hikes are bound to exacerbate galloping inflation, at least in the sho...

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka on Tuesday raised the petrol price by 24.3 per cent and diesel by 38.4 per cent, a record hike in fuel prices amidst the country's worst economic crisis due to the shortage of...

Jet fuel prices on Sunday were hiked by 3.22 per cent -- the ninth straight increase this year -- to an all-time high, reflecting a surge in global energy prices. The price of aviation turbine fuel (...

Food bills are set to be dearer in at least some eateries in Kolkata. If the current prices — of fuel and all other ingredients — persist or go further up, many more bars and restaurants ...

Residents of New Town are demanding more buses to improve the township’s connectivity to other parts of the city. The need for adequate public transport is being felt acutely now as most Covid-...

  Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar on Monday said that in the face of an incessant rise in oil prices, people should reduce the usage of petroleum products as an antidote to such price hikes. Af...

A horse and his owner travelled on a local train on the Sealdah South suburban route on Thursday evening. The man was arrested by the Railway Protection Force on Friday after his pictures with the hor...