Calcutta

Bikes in demand Two-wheelers have become quite popular in the attempt to avoid public transportation. Word has spread that New Town’s Archan Patranabish has a spare scooter and so suitors have...

Essential service workers living in containment zones will have to ask police personnel deployed at the boundaries of those areas whether they can leave for work. It has been left to the discretion of...

The results of the ICSE and ISC exams will be declared at 3pm on Friday, the Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations said. Students can see their results online or through SMS. To know the...

Markets in Salt Lake will be kept open only on alternate days and will be sanitised by civic teams on the days they are closed. Data announced on Thursday said 1,088 people tested Covid-positive in B...

Altogether 1.5 tonnes of fish fingerlings will be released in over 500 ponds in villages bordering the Sunderban tiger reserve by the end of July. The fish farming will reduce the number of people en...

A TV actress has alleged that an acquaintance raped her after calling on her at home to borrow money. “She has mentioned in her police complaint that she had called her friend, whom she knew si...

Doctors and nurses are not monitoring the health of Covid-19 patients close enough in various state-run and private hospitals, a health department team has said after visiting some such hospitals. Th...

The state government has written to the Centre that it would not be “conducive” and “appropriate” to conduct the final exams of graduating students in colleges and universities...

Parents of some primary schoolchildren are doing their school assignments instead of letting them do it, some teachers have said. At times, they are even competing with other parents to be the first ...

A car headed towards Sector V from EM Bypass rammed into three bikes that were parked under the Chingrihata flyover on Thursday afternoon. Police said the riders had stopped there to take shelter fro...