Hawkers in Salt Lake have returned to some of the township’s renovated footpaths. The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation had evicted 3,000-odd hawkers from footpaths in the run-up to the FIFA U-17 Wo...

If you go to Sakchi market, chances are you will come out with a sore elbow or a nasty knock. Pavements and roads are chock-full of illegal vendors selling everything from fast food to phone accessori...

Salt Lake: Hawkers have reclaimed several walkways along major roads in Salt Lake as the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation has stopped evicting encroachers.A corporation official who oversees eviction...

The city civic body will digitise licensed street vendor’s records to end the perennial problem of traffic congestion and to ensure quality of food dished out in commercial hubs.More than 4,000 lice...

Twenty-two stalls on a pavement in Lake Gardens were gutted early on Sunday, injuring two men sleeping inside shops. The stalls at the Lords Bakery crossing included eateries, bedding stores, a ready...

Hawkers in Gariahat were a divided lot — only around 45 of them reopened their stalls on Monday as police failed to issue clear orders on whether they could carry on with their businesses.Scenes wer...

Hawkers in Gariahat, who were given stalls by the Calcutta Municipal Corporation, are now occupying double the width of the footpath than what they used to do before. The hawkers have kept their old d...

Door-to-door delivery of fruits began in Hailakandi in view of Ramadan from Friday. The agriculture department, in association with the district administration, started door-to-door delivery of fruits...

Roads in India cannot be called very safe. In 2016, the annual report of road accidents in Indian cities with populations over 50 million from the ministry of road transport and highways placed Calcut...

Calcutta police commissioner Anuj Sharma on Friday told all police stations in the city not to allow any new hawker, sources said.He also stressed that plastic sheets should be removed from hawkers’...