Calcutta

A man has been arrested for allegedly cheating a lawyer of Rs 40 lakh by promising him a job in the CBI, police said. Biswajit Chatterjee, the lawyer from Baranagar, lodged a complaint against Krisha...

An elderly man was critically injured when the balcony of a two-storey house in north Calcutta on which he was standing collapsed on Monday afternoon. Golok Chandra Das, 68, who fractured his hip, li...

Ramakrishna Mission has written to the Centre seeking 4 lakh Covishield doses at a discounted price of Rs 150 a jab to launch a mass vaccination drive in all 23 districts of Bengal and parts of the No...

The state tech university has begun renting accommodation in the vicinity of the campus to set up WiFi-enabled hostels where students can attend classes over digital platforms, a university official s...

A weather system brewing over the Bay of Bengal is likely to bring a wet spell in south Bengal.  The system was in the form of a cyclonic circulation on Monday. It is expected to turn into a low...

Several schools reported that no student had scored 100 per cent in ISC (Class XII) maths unlike other years. Some said the highest in the subject had gone down, too, making them believe that the abse...

Bengal on Monday received around 1.5 lakh doses of Covaxin and got an assurance from the Centre that another 1.7 lakh doses would arrive on Tuesday, paving the way for administering the second jab to ...

“Bada gari hai na bahut, is liye hamare liye time nahi hai tere paas (There are a lot of fancy cars around. That is why you don’t have time for us),” the man barked.   The...

The city police have started prosecuting vehicles with defective number plates and the ones that have registration numbers written in fonts that are difficult to read when the vehicles are in motion. ...

Farhat Anjum, a Class X student of Jagbandhu Girls High School, was eager to do something new when she got an invitation to attend an online drama workshop. It taught Farhat much more than honing her...