Rowing in the Rabindra Sarobar in south Kolkata, where two teenage rowers drowned during a storm last Saturday, will be suspended till police draw up a standard operating procedure in consultation wit...

Where: Hazra Road What tree: Chhatim The problem: The tree is tilted in a manner that it is likely to topple. Improper trimming over the years has led to the tilt, experts said. The recourse: &ldqu...

Dark clouds gathered over the city on Thursday afternoon but the rain that followed was scattered. Parts of central Kolkata and Howrah received a spell of rain. South Kolkata was mostly dry. The Met...

IMD also predicted thundershower with moderate intensity rain and gusty winds with speeds of 60-90 Km/h would continue to occur over and adjoining areas of entire Delhi and NCR during the next tw...

The high moisture level behind the sweaty conditions in the city has kept the Celsius under check at a time northern parts of the country are being fried by the scorching sun. On Sunday, parts of Del...

Come rain, come shine Elsewhere, people tried to stay tuned despite the forces of nature. At New Town’s Rabindra Tirtha, the crowd had started pouring in from 6.30am, well before the harsh ray...

Cyclone Asani lost strength rapidly between midnight and the early hours of Wednesday. The storm was a cyclone on the west-central Bay of Bengal on Wednesday afternoon and was tipped to dissipate ove...

Civic officials said electrical department engineers were assessing the condition of the wires supplying power to trident lamps since Sunday afternoon. “The engineers found that in some places ...

On Monday morning, the water level of the river rose to 3 metres at the peak of high tide. “As a result we did not have to close the gates of the drainage channels, which open into the river, re...