Calcutta

A 50-year-old man who was being taken to hospital in a Maruti Omni van died after a Matador rammed into the vehicle near Axis Mall in New Town early on Saturday. The man at the wheel also died.The Mat...

A group of young Calcuttans is using the network of its members in other cities to try and locate Bengal’s migrant workers who are still stuck there.The group, started by former students of Jadavpur...

Two engineering students from Jadavpur University are part of a team of six that won an online hackathon on Solutions of COVID-19, organised by the Center of Emerging and Neglected Diseases (CEND) at ...

A team of doctors, public health specialists and health administrators will identify current and potential Covid-19 hotspots in Bengal, try to predict outbreaks and advise random tests in pockets as a...

The Covid-19 onslaught will redefine many facets of higher education in India. The present crisis has brought to the fore several limitations and points of self-complacency.The most immediate and appa...

The world has its shutters down but you may just find your neighbourhood sweet shop open. At the chief minister’s orders sweet shops can now operate from noon to 4pm despite the lockdown but shop ow...

Locked indoors and bored of bread and butter everyday? Gulsheen Sabharwal, a resident of Uniworld City, New Town and a second year student of IIHM, rustles up fancy dishes made of ingredients you are ...

A woman escaped from a quarantine facility in New Town, along with her two children, late on Tuesday, police said.A search was launched and a police team accompanied by health department officials tra...

Viruses are neither new nor novel. They were present on the planet well before we humans arrived. So why is Covid-19 so terrifying ? For one, it is highly infectious. It spreads by droplets and can ...

Kolkata, Apr 8 (PTI) The correctional services department in West Bengal has prepared a fresh list of 850 inmates eligible for parole and bail, as part of measures to prevent crowding in jails amid th...