Sajal Kumar Kanjilal, 66, used to sell little magazines at Nandan every day. On Saturday, too, he had left his Kasba home around 4.30pm. He was possibly headed home when he was dragged to death at Par...

The closing doors of a Metro train trapped a passenger’s hand as he was trying to get in, dragging the rest of him along the platform to his death and throwing the body into the tunnel.It’s not cl...

An eight-year-old boy whose vision is blurred beyond a couple of feet told his friend his dream was to recite in front of a large audience and win a prize.Avirup Raha, a Class IV student of Louis Brai...

The out-of-a-catalogue living room of the south Calcutta apartment seems to be holding its breath. Aquamarine sofas, carpets, runners, wood and silver and glass, porcelain white roses at attention, no...

The Christmas and New Year carnival at Park Street has become a people’s festival over the past few years but the spike in footfall does not necessarily mean happy tidings for some of the restaurant...

Bashar and Methila Robin of Bangladesh ticked one off their bucket list on Tuesday: an evening in Calcutta’s party street on Christmas. “The carnival here has become popular even in Bangladesh. Th...

A man on a bike was arrested after he had turned up allegedly to sell ganja to students in front of a school on Park Street on Monday afternoon.Policemen in plainclothes were keeping an eye on the sus...

A passenger, who was in the compartment where the hand of Sajal Kumar Kanjilal had got stuck leading to his death after being dragged into the tunnel, recounts to Metro what he saw from inside the coa...

Kotak Securities has planned alternative arrangements to function from its other sites in Calcutta after one of its offices at Park Street’s Apeejay House was gutted in a fire on Monday.The wholly-o...

A fire broke out in the fifth floor of a high-rise office building in the posh Park Street on Monday, a Fire Brigade official said.No one was injured in the fire which broke out at about 11.10 am in t...