Heavy rains lashed parts of the national capital on Friday, bringing much-needed respite from the humid temperature, but led to waterlogging and traffic slowdown in some areas. Light to moderate rain...

Mukundapur had a large number of marshy plots and water bodies. As the population burgeoned, the water bodies and marshy plots, where excess water from the area would flow into, were filled up and bui...

The southwest monsoon is likely to make an onset over Odisha during the next 48 hours, the IMD said. Chitrakonda in Malkangiri district and some other places in the southern part of Odisha have alrea...

A sudden bout of thunderstorm in and around Malda town in north Bengal, around 350km north of Kolkata, in the early hours of Thursday led to the death of a man and his teenage son who were struck by l...

The monsoon is unlikely to arrive in Kolkata in about a week, an official of the Alipore Met office said on Sunday. The southwest monsoon had advanced into north Bengal and the entire Northeast ...

After a brief respite, northwestern and central parts of the country were back in the grip of a heatwave, with temperatures settling above 45 degrees Celsius across several towns and cities, officials...

The family of one of the two teenaged rowers who drowned at Rabindra Sarobar on May 21 has lodged a police complaint alleging negligence on the part of the rowing club and the school for whose team th...

Cars, bikes and even buses were seen moving dangerously while trying to negotiate the 100m stretch. The worst stretch, however, is near the Salt Lake stadium where there is no sign of the blacktop on...

A day of very high humidity culminated in rain in parts of the city on Tuesday evening, bringing at least some momentary respite from the sticky heat of the past few days. The maximum temperature rec...

The front portion of a two-storey building in a congested lane off Amherst Street in north Kolkata collapsed on a grocery shop on the ground floor of the building on Sunday morning. Police said the o...