Calcutta

The Bengal government will set up a plasma bank at the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital to help conduct trials for plasma therapy for Covid-19. Doctors and health department officials welcomed t...

Jadavpur University will shut down its main administrative building, Auribindo Bhavan, till July 12 after a staff member tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday. ...

The urban development department has given technical approval for a flyover that will connect Metropolitan on EM Bypass with Biswa Bangla Gate in New Town, officials said. The tender for the project, ...

This newspaper drove around the township on Monday and found scarcely any block or compactor station that did not have a heap of garbage lying around. The areas near City Centre and the CGO Complex l...

A school has started a helpline for parents to “cope with the difficult circumstances” and manage their children, many of whom have become unruly and defiant after being cooped up indoors ...

The body of a 42-year-old city businessman who had been missing since Tuesday last week was found floating in the Hooghly on Sunday afternoon. His family identified the body on Monday. Bhupal Mukherj...

And yet, those in the know say we have the very first centralised scheme in all of Asia. “Even before Joseph Bazalgette submitted his plans for the central sewerage scheme of London to the Metro...

An evacuation flight from Dubai landed in Calcutta on Sunday evening with 174 people. Of the evacuees, 70 have opted for paid quarantine at hotels, said officials. Nine have been exempt from institut...

In this Covid-hit world, it’s the schoolteachers who are reaching out to counsellors in their institutions and outside to cope with the stress during the pandemic. Some of the teachers are crac...

The urban development department will undertake another round of repairs of several flyovers and bridges in Calcutta, some of which engineers had wanted demolished. The flyover that connects EM Bypas...