This month, many colleges around the country plan to welcome back thousands of students into something they hope will resemble normal campus life.  But they face challenges unlike any other Amer...

Tractor sales maintained an upward momentum for the second consecutive month in July. Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd’s Farm Equipment Sector (FES), a part of the $19.4 billion Mahindra Group, post...

First, the Pacific Northwest and the Northeast were hit hardest as the coronavirus tore through the nation. Then it surged across the South. Now the virus is again picking up dangerous speed in much o...

The 2020 decade is going to be a challenging one. It started amidst an economic slowdown, and now we’re in the middle of a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic. Job losses, pay cuts and uncertainty&...

Students of higher classes at the state-aided Bengali medium schools in Malda district can attend classes of some key subjects while sitting at their homes from August 1. All they have to do is to sw...

Bengal on Saturday reported the highest 24-hour count in new Covid-19 infections, with 2,589, and deaths, with 48. Nineteen persons died of Covid-19 in Calcutta alone on Saturday, 13 others in North ...

The East Midnapore administration on Friday announced that around 80 per cent of its Covid-19 patients — asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic — would be kept in home isolation in the wake o...

Glass shields such as those at bank counters are coming up on the desks of duty officers at police stations in south Bengal districts to protect cops from possible Covid infection. Duty officers usua...

People take handwriting for granted. If they are not calligraphers, that is. Only schools are serious about it — or were till some years ago — with classes dedicated to handwriting practic...

Former and present boarders of IIT Kharagpur’s Azad hostel are trying to ensure members of the night canteen staff and employees of a photocopy shop beside the hostel have funds to pull through ...