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...

Four swab sample collection centres are being set up in the Howrah municipal area so people suspected to be carriers of the novel coronavirus need not visit hospital for a test, officials of the civic...

The Howrah Municipal Corporation has started home delivery of essential items in six Covid-19-sensitive wards to tighten the lockdown.“A number of Covid-19 positive cases were reported from one ward...

Residents of a small pocket in Howrah city have started separating biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste at home before handing them over to waste collectors every morning.The move is part of a sc...

The state election commission on Wednesday set the ball rolling for polls to 102 civic bodies, including the Calcutta Municipal Corporation and the Howrah Municipal Corporation, by April, holding the ...

The Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority will clean up 88 “legacy dumping sites” in the state except in the Calcutta Municipal Corporation, Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation and Howrah Muni...

A one-man judicial panel headed by a former Calcutta High Court judge has accused police of “committing civil wrong by causing damage and mental injuries” in its probe into alleged excesses during...

A cop from the city’s northern fringes who became a mother last month and a homemaker from Howrah died of dengue over the past two days, civic officials said.Runu Biswas, 28, a Calcutta police const...

The Bengal Assembly passed two bills on Thursday to enable the state government to run municipalities through an administrator or a board of administrators by one more year. The rules were changed as ...

Environmentalists have raised questions about an ongoing study ordered by the state pollution control board to measure various pollutants in Calcutta’s air and the board’s claim that roadside eate...