A nine-year-old boy who was reported missing from near his home in Topsia in southeast Kolkata on Sunday was found dead in a water body in a burial ground, not far from his home, on Tuesday night. In...

The Durga Puja that is held on the ground will not be affected in any way as that portion of the ground will not be taken up for the makeshift stalls, he added. The traders have demanded that the KMC...

Given its prime real-estate location, the crematorium is surrounded by buildings that have come up within inches of the complex. Perhaps renewing the operations of this colonial building is out of que...

Year of establishment: 2002 Owned by: Mr and Mrs Akhtar Parwez, directors of Arsalan Number of existing outlets: Nine in Kolkata and one in Dubai Best-performing outlet: Park Circus  Best-s...

“Most people in retail markets are now asking for hilsa because it’s a monsoon delicacy. So fishermen, too, prefer to catch hilsa than pomfret around this time. The mesh size of the nets f...

Gold ornaments worth more than Rs 1 crore were stolen from a bank near Park Circus in south Kolkata by a man who had entered the bank posing as a customer and then hid inside a washroom till the bank ...

One Jesuit priest and many others on Tuesday walked for the cause for which another Jesuit priest lived and died. Father Felix Raj, vice-chancellor of St Xavier’s University, was part of a cand...

A Mumbai-based engineering firm with national footprints will assess the condition of the Parama flyover and draw up a report with suggestions for corrective measures, the urban development department...

The body of Chodup Lepcha, the Kolkata police constable who had fired from his service rifle and killed a woman and injured two other passers-by before shooting himself on Friday afternoon, was handed...