Calcutta

The demolition work of the Tallah bridge resumed a few days ago to ensure the 57-year-old structure is pulled down by the end of this month.The demolition of the bridge had stopped after the Centre an...

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The four Covid-19 hospitals in the city will have a total of 1,425 beds, the state health department has announced.The New Town campus of Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI), MR Bangur Hospi...

The Indian Council of Medical Research has advised all states and union territories to begin antibody-based blood tests in addition to swab tests to identify patients with the novel coronavirus.The �...

Bengal’s health department has started identifying potential clusters or hotspots of Covid-19 cases, chief secretary Rajiva Sinha said at a news conference on Saturday.“We have started work to ide...

The Bengal power sector has been forced into a dizzying scramble to counter the possible fallout of the sudden electricity load reduction at 9pm on Sunday followed by a demand surge that the Prime Min...

The number of vehicles on the roads and lockdown violators came down on Saturday compared with Friday.Police said 706 people were prosecuted for lockdown violation till 8pm on Saturday and 117 vehicle...

In view of the outbreak of Covid-19 and the lockdown imposed to contain it from March 23, the New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has extended the last date for self-assessment and payment o...

Police officials belonging to the New Town Technocity police station are earning kudos for a courier job they have undertaken. They are picking up salaries of the domestic help working in some of the ...

Two men have been arrested for allegedly circulating a clip of a Covid-related conversation that police said contained false information and was “motivated and exaggerated”.Naveen Kumar Poddar was...