Edge over ‘banned’ plastic Flags are being stitched from three types of materials in the market. But the cloth variant is the clear winner, dominating over its paper and plastic...

The Durga Puja that is held on the ground will not be affected in any way as that portion of the ground will not be taken up for the makeshift stalls, he added. The traders have demanded that the KMC...

“Most people in retail markets are now asking for hilsa because it’s a monsoon delicacy. So fishermen, too, prefer to catch hilsa than pomfret around this time. The mesh size of the nets f...

Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s building department will write to the civic body’s market department asking them to pull down or repair a dilapidated portion of the Park Circus market, an ...

Soaring US inflation has worked its way to pull down the Indian rupee to the brink of 80 levels against the dollar as fears grow that an aggressive US Federal Reserve will go for a 100-basis-points ra...

At the broader level, the BSE small-cap index rose higher by 0.28 per cent and the mid-cap index gained 0.20 per cent. Among BSE sectoral indices, capital goods jumped 2.23 per cent, followed by powe...

The New Town authorities conducted a drive on Thursday in various markets where shopkeepers were penalised for giving out single-use plastic bags. A team of senior officials from the New Town Kolkata...

The proposal of merger of HDFC with its banking subsidiary HDFC Bank, the biggest transaction in India's corporate history, has got approval from stock exchanges. Both HDFC and HDFC Bank have got...

Plastic bags less than 75 micron cannot be used from July 1. But across markets in Kolkata, plastics that are much thinner were still being used till Thursday. Traders in several markets felt that it...

The market valuation of the top-10 most valued firms plunged by a whopping Rs 3.91 lakh crore last week, in tandem with a steep sell-off in equities, with TCS and and Reliance Industries taking the bi...