“The city is enjoying ‘revenge puja’ after two years of Covid, doubly energised by the Unesco inscription (of Kolkata’s Durga Puja on its list of intangible cultural heritage),...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said Durga Puja committees in the state must take measures to ensure that pedestrian and vehicular traffic movement are regulated well without an...

Traffic management and crowd control on VIP Road in northeast Kolkata during Durga Puja emerged as a major concern at a meeting organised by the Bidhannagar commissionerate on Monday. The meeting was...

Sheuli, who won India’s third gold medal in Birmingham in the men’s 73kg weight division, was handed a cheque for Rs 2 lakh, sweets and flowers by minister for fire and emergency services ...

Priest Somesh Shastri did a series of pujas from 10am to 1pm. There was a break in between when actor-MP Dev, cricketer-MLA Manoj Tiwari and footballer Shilton Paul arrived. Srikumar Chattopadhyay san...

A bill was passed in the West Bengal assembly on Friday that sought to bring parity in the fire clearance norms for highrises in Kolkata. "An NOC (no objection certificate) of the fire departmen...

Marathon planned Bose also announced a year-round calendar of activities to mark the jubilee year. “We will host a marathon in September in which runners from across the world will participate....

A fire broke out at the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB), one of the oldest biomedical laboratories in the country on Monday, a fire official said. No casualty was reported in the blaze wh...

Chakraborty later got bail and soon switched to Trinamul. Now with his wife as MLA and Bose out of the picture in the Rajarhat-Gopalpur belt, Chakraborty has been calling the shots in the area. Chakra...

Pandal-hoppers headed to Sreebhumi puja this year can now take a subway instead of walking across VIP Road. The new Lake Town subway was inaugurated by minister and local MLA Sujit Bose on Mahalaya. ...