Rowers in Kolkata have not had the Rabindra Sarobar to practise for more than two-and-a-half months now. Two teenage rowers who were practising for a school regatta drowned in the Sarobar during a sq...

A widened stretch of the EM Bypass near the Metropolitan crossing will be thrown open to traffic within a fortnight, promising to bring some respite from snarls at the crossing that is a bottleneck no...

An overhead water tank in Patuli on the southeastern fringes of Kolkata collapsed late on Wednesday injuring an employee of the civic body whose left leg had to be amputated on Thursday. The tank was...

The Rabindra Sarobar compound will be open to visitors from 5am to 7pm, instead of a few hours in the morning and the evening. Much to the agony of many Kolkatans, the 192-acre park, maintained by th...

“We have received the letter. We will forward the same to the NGT,” said an official of the KMDA. The letter follows a meeting between club officials, police and KMDA on July 15. After t...

A little over a month-and-a-half after the demise of singer Krishnakumar Kunnath, popularly known as KK, who passed away hours after performing at Nazrul Mancha, the Kolkata Municipal Development Auth...

Allen Park on Park Street and Rawdon Square on Rawdon Street, however, were closed. The Telegraph visited Jagat Mukherjee Park at 1.20pm, Allen Park at 2pm, Rawdon Square at 2.25pm, Maddox Square at ...

This railway overbridge is different from the Chitpore bridge that was built in 1843 and stands over the circular canal. Senior officials in the urban development department said a meeting was recent...

Exactly a month ago, the city police had announced standard operating procedures for the resumption of rowing in the Rabindra Sarobar. But the sport has yet to make a comeback to its only venue in th...

A Mumbai-based engineering firm with national footprints will assess the condition of the Parama flyover and draw up a report with suggestions for corrective measures, the urban development department...