Residents of the unaffected buildings in the contained stretch of BE Block are upset at having to visit the immediate vicinity of the affected buildings to collect all their orders. Of the 18 buildin...

A drainage pumping station will be set up near City Centre II to prevent water-logging in monsoon. It will be built jointly by Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and the Housing and Infrastructur...

A visit to the market is not as simple as it used to be. Even besides the mask and sanitiser, you now have to check what day of the week it is and in some cases, what time of the day it is before head...

The Covid-19 pandemic has not spared the god of prosperity. Of the two big Ganesh puja organisers in Salt Lake, one has decided to call off the event this year while the other will make do with a sma...

Cholo Gaan Gai, BK Block Cholo Gaan Gai, a WhatsApp group of BK Block music lovers, organised a Rabindrajayanti for themselves over a virtual platform. At least 35 people joined the event with parti...

Arnab Basu, the owner of popular confectionery brands Mio Amore and Winkies, died on July 2 at a city hospital. According to family sources, he was battling liver cancer. A resident of The Residency ...

Swissôtel, the five-star property attached to City Centre 2, has shut for now. The contract between its owner the Ambuja Neotia Group and the French hospitality chain Accor expired on June 30 af...

The New Town authorities are implementing yet another suggestion offered by experts in the aftermath of cyclone Amphan. After deciding to plant on empty plots, the administrative body is proposing to ...

Hidco chairman cum managing director Debashis Sen waters a sapling in CE Block in New Town as block secretary Alok Das looks on. Sixty trees were planted in the block on Saturday. Another 40 will be p...

The New Town authorities have begun an initiative to plant 10,000 trees across the township as a re-greening project in the aftermath of cyclone Amphan. As reported in an article on June 19 in The Tel...