The forest department on Wednesday unveiled four mini trucks, which will ferry men and equipment to control marauding elephants. Every truck, called Airavat, is GPS-enabled and comes with a drone to ...

International Business Machines Corp disclosed on Monday it will no longer offer facial recognition or analysis software in a letter to the US Congress calling for new efforts to pursue justice and ra...

Health authorities will this week begin random blood sample surveillance in 10 “hotspot” Indian cities, including Calcutta, to determine the proportions of their populations infected with the new ...

Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said her government was in the process of carrying out a mega door-to-door surveillance across Bengal for a month to identify persons with severe acute respiratory illness (...

The Kamrup (metro) district administration has started to use a mobile app-based solution called COVID Suraksha from Tuesday to monitor the status of each of the home-quarantined persons and the activ...

Two inter-ministerial central teams — one in south Bengal and the other in the north of the state — continued with their visits, mostly to markets and containment zones in Calcutta and Howrah and ...

The Gujarat government has started using the rapid antibody testing kits for Covid-19 surveillance in the state, despite the apprehensions expressed in some quarters in the country over the use of the...

The central team in Calcutta received the “cooperation” of the Bengal government as the members visited a quarantine centre and a dedicated Covid-19 hospital on Thursday and later held a detailed ...

The district administrations in north Bengal will evolve a mechanism to check truck drivers ferrying essential commodities across the region and will also issue passes to them for their convenience.Su...

The Centre on Tuesday announced a plan to use mobile phones — believed held by over 90 per cent of the nation’s households — to check the prevalence of Covid-19 symptoms amid the country’s ris...