Calcutta

Sushma Yadav, 35, who worked as a domestic help, was arrested on Sunday for allegedly stealing Rs 4.5 lakh from her employers’ residence on Prince Anwar Shah Road earlier this week. The theft w...

Around 84,000 health workers were administered the Covid vaccination in Bengal in the first week of the nationwide exercise, prompting local officials to conclude that the state has done “fairly...

Calcutta is set to have colour-coded tram routes, like the Granton tram network of Edinburgh, from February. “The colours to be assigned to the various routes include pink, red, yellow, violet,...

The current spell of chill, brought on by snowfall in Jammu and Kashmir, is likely to last another four to five days, the weather department said. Sunday's maximum temperature was 26.1 degrees Ce...

A fleet of around 30 vintage and classic cars and two-wheelers made a trip down to Eco Park from Loreto House on Middleton Row on Sunday. The drive was an opportunity for the owners of the golden old...

An attempt is unlikely to be made but if Prime Minister Narendra Modi is keen to find out who made him look like a ungracious host at Victoria Memorial on Saturday, a safe starting point will be the t...

Teachers of a city school travelled more than 80km carrying clothes and other relief materials that students had collected for villagers in the Sunderbans who are yet to recover from the impact of Cyc...

A school in Kasba has installed a bookshelf outside the campus, beside the gate, for residents of the locality to pick up books and read, an initiative aimed at encouraging reading. The idea is to ma...

We never forgot him, but India’s younger generation needs to be taught about the forgotten vestiges of our freedom struggle. Faced with the threat of unequal citizenship from the forces of relig...

The Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) will increase the storage capacity in Mukundapur booster pumping station by more than double, reducing the dependency on underground water pulled up through de...