Calcutta

The legwork was done by youths like Chetan Mukherjee, Ranabir Bhattacharya, Soham Sarkar and Sayan Ghosh, who got in touch with the NGO Nature Mates for help.On June 7, the NGO sent a lifting crane to...

Rathyatra is slated for June 23 but the pandemic-induced lockdown has ensured that celebrations are rather muted this year.Bidhannagar Ramakrishna Vivekananda Kendra is perhaps the only institute in S...

New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) is approaching owners of empty plots to allow the use of their land for plantation till they need to use it themselves. Similar requests will also be made...

How is the lockdown taking a toll on the mental health of residents? And what are the ways to identify symptoms from the behavioural patterns of family members? Psychiatrist Kedar Ranjan Banerjee addr...

The solution? Long-term social change “Thousands of years of conditioning takes time to change” says Kapoor. “However, with the work of women’s organisations over decades, dom...

Three persons were injured when a portion of the third-floor balcony of a house on College Street collapsed on Friday morning.The four-storey house, more than a century old, stands near the intersect...

The Bengal government will audit the reasons for the “large number of Covid-19 deaths” in private hospitals and nursing homes requisitioned by the state government to treat coronavirus patients.A ...

The state government will plant “five crore” trees in the Sunderbans to make up for the loss of mangroves because of Cyclone Amphan, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Friday.Mamata said 1,600...

Autorickshaw drivers are in a Catch-22 situation. If they double the fare to make up for the drastic fall in passenger count, people are not always willing to pay.If the drivers decide to ferry four p...

Many fliers are getting stuck in Calcutta because airlines are cancelling flights following changes in quarantine rules in some states and poor phone network is leading to passengers missing alerts ab...