The new control room would be set up at Upanna, a three-storey building just beside Nabanna...

Already two companies of the National Disaster Response Force have been pressed into service in East Midnapore...

A middle-aged man was found floating in water on the road outside the north gate of Raj Bhavan, next to a lamp post...

The Met office has predicted more such thunderstorms over the next couple of days...

The wet spell has been attributed by Met office to a high-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal and a cyclonic circulation over Jharkhand and adjoining areas...

Expect thundershowers showers, lower temperatures ...

Two bouts of showers in two consecutive days brought temporary relief from the scorching conditions the city had been subjected to over the past few days...

Some of the western districts got hailstorms, the wind speed in and around Calcutta was around 40 km per hour...

The maximum temperature was 39.4 degrees, five notches above normal for this time of the year ...

Little chance of Nor’wester now: Met office...