India is celebrating 75 years of Independence but there is hardly any mention of Rash Behari Bose anywhere, the author of a new book on the freedom fighter said at the launch in the city. Prasun Roy,...

The Kolkata airport authorities started making announcements on Thursday asking all passengers to wear masks. Officials said they have set up a surveillance team that would from Friday slap fines on ...

The last few kilometres of roads in northeast Kolkata leading to the airport are a traffic mess. A meeting of the airport advisory committee on Tuesday discussed how traffic congestion was leading to...

A task force, formed with representatives of the state government, airlines and tour operators, will meet regularly to discuss passenger grievances, operational issues of airlines and how to promote d...

“At times several passengers of a particular flight are stuck in security check queues, delaying the flight,” said an airline official. The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) is res...

The situation was similar at one of the prepaid taxi booking counters outside the terminal that he visited. “Hundreds of people had queued up for taxis,” he recounted. After several app c...

Foreign currencies, including US dollars and Euros, worth Rs 1.53 crore has been seized from a passenger at the Calcutta airport, the Enforcement Directorate said on Monday. The seizure includes USD ...

Ghose’s book has delved extensively into the political activities of the revolutionary groups in Bengal and other parts of the country and has presented a lot of information on Bose’s pers...

Officials of international airlines said Kolkata still did not have enough corporate passengers for a flight to Europe or the US to sustain. They also pointed at the lack of enough initiative by the A...

Airport officials said no new international airline was approaching the authorities for slots from Kolkata. Despite resumption of regular flights after a gap of two years, the city does not have dire...