Nearly one crore people are directly and indirectly employed in the 10,000 garment manufacturing units in this area in the southwestern part of the city. Cutters, tailors, people who stitch buttons an...

A team of 26 personnel of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), stationed at Hooghly’s Arambagh in anticipation of floods, were isolated after two members tested Covid-19 positive on Thur...

Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday accused Narendra Modi of indulging in political opportunism over death of jawans and questioning the patriotism of anybody who criticised the Prime Minister or his governm...

Howrah is the second most polluted city in the country in terms of nitrogen oxide emission, says a report by the Center for Science and Environment.Nitrogen oxide is mainly released by diesel-driven v...

The Calcutta Port Trust on Tuesday asked 19 vessels that had anchored at Sandheads in the Bay of Bengal to proceed into deep sea to avoid the path of Cyclone Amphan.Vessels that were docked at Calcutt...

An air-conditioned passenger train rolled out of Howrah station for Delhi on Tuesday evening, 48 days after passenger services were suspended in an attempt to contain the spread of the novel coronavir...

The Howrah civic body has sought the services of private medical practitioners to tackle the spread of Covid-19.“The Howrah Municipal Corporation is reaching out to all private doctors who can volun...

Rabindranath Pal, terminally ill for the past few years, breathed his last at 62 on Saturday night at his home in Howrah’s Sijberia.Three crematoriums in the region conveyed to the Pal family that t...

A group of young men has been taking care of the daily needs of the residents of Nandibagan and Uriyapara in Howrah’s Golabari, both of which are containment zones, as no one is allowed to step out ...

The Howrah district administration has installed a kiosk to collect swab samples for the Covid-19 test at the quarantine centre in the Dumurjala stadium. At least five such kiosks will start functioni...