A trip through New Town is now a bumpy affair as roads are dotted with craters. In some places large portions of roads have subsided, forcing the authorities to shut them down. All three action areas...

The New Town authorities will conduct a door-to-door survey after Puja to seek out people with symptoms of Covid and dengue. Health workers will visit cooperative societies, standalone buildings and ...

People keen to visit Durga Puja pandals in Salt Lake and New Town can take guided bicycle tours organised by the New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA). An NKDA official said they decided to h...

“All canals in New Town have become dumping grounds. The practice must be stopped,” said Sushmita Dasgupta, a resident of Action Area II. An official of the NKDA said they had opened a co...

Sen urged the organisers to plan the space in the Green Verge so that it can be used not just for morning walks, but for cultural and educational purposes also. The organisers took the suggestion to ...

While several housing complexes already had Sufal Bangla coming in, quite a few have offered them space inside their gates after the footpath sales stopped. The first was Animikha from August 21. Akan...

Unfortunately, NKDA has failed to realise that this garbage dump has now shifted to a distance of only 200m, very much in the backyard of City Centre 2 and in front of other housing complexes in the a...

Urban development and municipal affairs minister Chandrima Bhattacharya, who is also the minister of state for health and family welfare, lauded the initiative after inaugurating Fuljhuri. “In m...

The water treatment plant in New Town will increase its supply to Sector V and Salt Lake by at least two million gallons per day (MGD) from this week, an official of the New Town Kolkata Development A...

No quiet corner at home to work? A “cocoon” can be your answer. With work-from-home becoming the new normal because of the Covid pandemic, the New Town authorities have come up with the c...