The New Town authorities will start distributing bags and boxes made of jute and paper in markets of Action Area I, II and III and urge shopkeepers not to hand out plastic bags to customers, an NKDA o...

A daycare centre is coming up in AD Block, New Town. It promises to be one of a kind not because of the facilities being offered but because of who it is being offered to.  The working parents, ...

Broken plastic toys, used plastic buckets and plastic bags, among other things, will go into the making of paver blocks that will be used to construct walkways in New Town. The New Town authorities h...

Luckily for Chatterjee, the next and final round was on prawn. Sikha Roy made Bhapa Chingri, Rinku Manna Malaicurry, Tapasi Hazra Sorshe Chingri and Aloka Mondal, who finally bagged the Rs 1,000 shopp...

Multiple bicycle docking stations will be set up all over Salt Lake Sector V as there has been a spurt in the number of people cycling to their workplaces. Many office-goers have taken to cycling to ...

Despite all the smart and digital libraries coming up, a traditional brick-and-mortar library was inaugurated recently at Utsa Condoville and it already has about 100 people waiting to enrol. Also, me...

A five-screen multiplex is waiting to throw open its doors in New Town this year. In fact, one can already see the name “Miraj Cinemas” glowing atop Terminus Building, half of which is occ...

“We had to make several design changes to make the glass walls more durable and the hall as storm-proof as possible.” NKDA chairman Debashis Sen said work on rebuilding the glass hall sta...

A woman in her twenties who had checked into a New Town hotel with a man on Tuesday night was found murdered in the room hours later, police said. The male companion was missing. The body of Chumki G...

Fires on New Town’s grasslands are being lit for reasons ranging from burning waste to scaring away snakes, an official of the New Town Kolkata Development Authority said. Residents’ resi...