Swarms of mosquitoes are laying siege to New Town to the northeast of Kolkata every day, sending residents scurrying indoors and forcing them to keep their windows and doors shut at all times. The sit...

Siliguri and three other municipal bodies have been categorised as “most vulnerable” urban local bodies in north Bengal for vector-borne diseases. The state government has made the catego...

A proliferation in the number of mosquitoes is giving residents a scare in Salt Lake and its adjoining areas in northeast Kolkata. Multiple places along VIP Road, including Lake Town, Baguiati and Te...

Keeping construction work pending on plots in New Town will invite a notice from the New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA). The New Town authorities are mulling to send notices to builders as...

The magic of a cosily curtained bed with boxed in steps does not belong to story-books alone. Earlier, carved and curtained beds were symbols of prosperous comfort, creating a room within a room, a sp...

Secretary of Bidhannagar Horticultural Society Arijit Poddar provided a few pointers on maintaining gardens in dengue season. “If you have unused pots, keep them upturned; if you have a Lily pon...

Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation will seek the help of cops if their teams face resistance from residents in allowing them to enter their houses during a door-to-door campaign to identify if people h...

The number of people testing positive for dengue has been rising across parts of Salt Lake, Bangur, Lake Town, Dum Dum and Baguiati over the past few weeks. People have tested positive for dengue in ...

The monsoon is now active all across India. But with the rains come other problems, particularly the mosquito menace and dengue — a transmittable disease caused by the dengue virus. As there are...

Amid concerns of identifying a cluster of Zika virus in the capital city, five more people, including four women, have tested positive for the infection in Kerala, taking the caseload in the state to ...