A spokesperson for the power utility said their job was to maintain the supply lines and ensure electricity reached the posts. “The BMC is in charge of maintaining the lights, posts and the jun...

A number of unauthorised billboards were pulled down on Wednesday in Salt Lake and several places along VIP Road by teams from the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC), officials of the civic body ...

Driving and even walking through Salt Lake’s roads after sundown is turning out to be risky as most plunge into darkness because of faulty street lights. Lamp posts are installed at an interval...

Pal told this newspaper that she was not given any receipt or parking ticket for the ‘fee’. In Sector III, a vacant plot beside AMRI Hospitals had a number of cars parked on it. Many bike...

Cars, bikes and even buses were seen moving dangerously while trying to negotiate the 100m stretch. The worst stretch, however, is near the Salt Lake stadium where there is no sign of the blacktop on...

A vast stretch of First Avenue, which leads to the tank number 5 bus stand from Baisakhi, is riddled with craters. In some sections, the surface has worn off, exposing the bricks beneath. Such is the...

Cars and bikes sway dangerously while crossing this stretch, in front of a fuel pump opposite the stadium’s gate number 1. A number of residents of IA Block, which is adjacent to the stretch, t...

Both the exercises were done at the insistence of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) that had pumped in funds to modernise the water supply system in the city. In Salt Lake, a civic official pointed ou...

Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation has proposed to hike property tax for residential houses and apartments in Salt Lake. The corporation has in its budget proposed a hike for which in some cases the e...

At least half-a-dozen artistes have died of Covid in the past one month in Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency and a centre of classical music, with the family of at least one ...