Private hospitals must further increase the Covid bed count as the number of people getting infected is increasing rapidly, senior state government officials told private healthcare units at a meeting...
The saying goes that his father would thrash him if he missed his riyaz. The training under his father, Allauddin Khan, often stretched from early morning till late at night. Along with him trained si...
Bishop Philip S. Masih of the Methodist Church, who was the chairman of Calcutta Boys’ School and Calcutta Girls’ High School, died in Lucknow on Tuesday.
Masih had tested positive for Co...
The ICSE council will take a decision on the ICSE (Class X) and ISC (Class XII) board exams and “inform all concerned at the earliest,” Gerry Arathoon, the chief executive and secretary of...
By Jhinuk Mazumdar, Subhankar Chowdhury in Calcutta
A school in the city observed the birth anniversary of B.R. Ambedkar, the father of the Constitution of India, because it felt it was important to “glorify peace, love and unity” in the mi...
The state government on Wednesday asked private hospitals to give priority to Covid vaccine recipients turning up for the second jab and administer the first dose only if enough doses are availab...
Arsalan scion Raghib Parwez — the prime accused in the Jaguar crash that killed two Bangladeshis on Shakespeare Sarani in August 2019 — has been asked to surrender before a court by April ...
Tharoor adds: “Many of these festivals are purely secular, harvest celebrations — Onam for example, or Dusshera, or even Holi— despite their origins in Hindu mythology…. The a...
The election officer and police superintendent of each poll-bound district should ensure that the number of attendees at meetings and rallies does not exceed the limit set for public gatherings by the...
The health department on Tuesday asked private hospitals to increase Covid beds, including critical care beds. An official of Belle Vue Clinic said they had 150 Covid beds till Tuesday morning and add...