A block development officer, her husband and eight-year-old daughter were stranded on a road for over three hours on Sunday morning when residents of a locality here refused to let the family enter th...

In the heated debate over reopening schools, one burning question has been whether and how efficiently children can spread the virus to others. A large new study from South Korea offers an answer: Ch...

Bengal reported 36 deaths from Covid-19 on Sunday, the highest in a day in the state so far. On July 9, 27 people had died of the disease. The state also recorded highest number of cases at 2,278, re...

Resistance matters. It is a simple enough lesson, but not as simple to implement or emulate. Seventeen American states and the District of Columbia sued the Donald Trump administration for the Immigra...

A rise in the number of Covid-19 patients in New Town has prompted many residents’ associations in the township to “encourage” people to do their household chores themselves and driv...

The spike in Covid-19 cases across north Bengal, especially Siliguri subdivision in Darjeeling district and Malda district, despite the ongoing lockdown led to the closure of wholesale grocery in Sili...

Saturday’s numbers showed yet another 24-hour record jump in new Covid-19 cases with 2,198, cures with 1,286, and tests with 13,465, a day the Mamata Banerjee government held a news meet, spearh...

Belgium may be at the start of a second wave of coronavirus infections after reporting a 32 per cent increase in weekly cases, though for now the resurgence appears more localised than the initial out...

Three markets in the Ultadanga area — in Muchibazar, Kadapara and Joramandir — will remain shut till Sunday, the Calcutta Municipal Corporation has decided following a rise in the number o...

Administrative officials in Darjeeling and Malda are scouting for new facilities which can be used as hospitals for Covid-19 patients with the steady rise in infections in the two districts. While ar...