The Telegraph had on August 11 reported that the organisers had started erecting the pandal in the park. A senior official of the KMC then said they had asked the organisers to erect the pandal on th...

Rowers in Kolkata have not had the Rabindra Sarobar to practise for more than two-and-a-half months now. Two teenage rowers who were practising for a school regatta drowned in the Sarobar during a sq...

THE PROBLEM Caregiving, while something done out of love, a sense of duty, or both, can be overwhelming. Often, we do our duty at the cost of neglecting our own physical, mental, emotional, and spiri...

The police and Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will conduct joint inspections of all the places where the construction of such islands has been proposed to consider the feasibility. The Telegraph...

Throw us into jail, but repatriate our child to India,” says Bhavesh Shah. “In any case, without her home is like a jail,” he adds. Bhavesh, a software developer, arrived in Germany ...

Last year in August, a 33-year-old man with criminal antecedents was arrested for allegedly harassing an 18-year-old girl riding home on a scooter with her 12-year-old brother on the pillion in New To...

Three persons died on spot when a goods truck allegedly rear-ended a motorcycle carrying four persons in Murshidabad’s Beldanga on Friday afternoon. Sources said both the vehicles were speeding...

Autorickshaws flouting every traffic rule, and without caring for the safety of their passengers and others, ply with impunity in Salt Lake and VIP Road, among other places. After commercial operatio...

“We have received the letter. We will forward the same to the NGT,” said an official of the KMDA. The letter follows a meeting between club officials, police and KMDA on July 15. After t...

Abhishek Jain, partner indirect tax, KPMG in India, said: “This has been done by the government to widen the tax base and overall rationalise the exemptions. While such services for most busines...