The enforcement branch of Calcutta police on Saturday night arrested a man for allegedly hoarding medical oxygen cylinders. Three cylinders of 10 litre capacity — two of them filled and one emp...

Bengal on Sunday recorded 19,441 new infections, 124 deaths and 18,454 recoveries. The number of active cases has risen to over 1.26 lakh. Of the 124 deaths, 28 were reported from Calcutta and 34 fro...

The body of an 85-year-old woman who had tested positive for Covid-19 remained in her flat at Karunamoyee Housing Estate in Salt Lake for at least 19 hours before it was removed for cremation by the B...

The Covid-infected couple who had travelled 850km in an ambulance from Ayodhya to Bengal’s Hooghly for oxygen, have recovered and were  released late on Friday. Lalji Yadav, 50, and his wif...

A young brigade of the CPM and other Left parties, who formed the Red Volunteers group last year, has been providing aid to people during the pandemic across the state.  Debashis Nandy, a member...

The Bengal government has decided to include isolation beds in all block primary health centres, rural hospitals and primary health centres with basic facilities after a sudden spike in Covid-19 cases...

Darren Caldeira’s phone hasn’t stopped ringing for the past few weeks. As the country lies battered and bruised by the second surge of Covid-19, former footballer Caldeira, like many othe...

Bombay High Court on Thursday said it was “imperative” for all private hospitals in Maharashtra to have their own oxygen plants to deal with the increasing cases of Covid-19. A bench of C...

Delhi High Court on Thursday said the existing medical infrastructure in the national capital had been “exposed” and found to have been in a “shambles” when put to the test dur...

The Congress on Thursday said central committees should be deployed to investigate the mismanagement of the Covid crisis with over 4 lakh daily cases and close to 4,000 deaths, not to probe stray inci...