Calcutta

Around 12 families were left homeless after a garage next to their homes on Gurusaday Road caught fire early on Tuesday. Police said no one was hurt but the shanties were gutted. Four fire tenders we...

The community prayed for the well-being of farmers and soldiers at the Behala Gurdwara. “Ardas is held after a kirtan, during which we pray for something from our Guru. Usually, we pray Sarbat ...

About 200 cars, almost all with the Tricolour fluttering on them and some with the yellow flag of a farmers union, wound their way through the city on Tuesday in support of the tractor rally in Delhi ...

Soiled currency notes that were found in Kalighat two days ago had been discarded by a temple in Bhowanipore and accidentally reached Kalighat with discarded flowers, police said on Tuesday. A gunny ...

Two professionals, leading figures in their respective fields who have spent long years in Calcutta, were at Saturday’s event at Victoria Memorial to celebrate the 125th birth anniversary of Net...

Recalling how the exhibition was conceptualised, Arijit Dutta Choudhury, director general, NCSM, said: “In 2018, we were approached by Science Museum, London, to develop an exhibition on the sub...

The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission has asked a hospital in south Calcutta to give Rs 50,000 as compensation to a patient who was overbilled during his Covid treatment. Chinm...

The body of a teenage girl, later identified as Nidhi Poddar, was found in front of a multi-storey building in Bangur Avenue’s A Block late on Sunday. Residents of the area, alerted by a thud, ...

A man allegedly drugged seven family members at his in-laws’ home a day after his brother-in-law’s wedding reception and stole the bride’s jewellery worth Rs 8.5 lakh from a cupboard...

Speaking at an event in Hooghly’s Pursura, the chief minister said Dutt and actor Sayoni Ghosh had told her about what they were being subjected to. “I will never bow my head before the BJ...