Calcutta

When Subhoroop Ghosh reached the Majumdars at Srinagar colony, Panchasayar, the elderly couple had spent 48 hours without electricity and desperately needed to be ferried to a relative’s house in Dh...

Prolonged power cuts and lack of telephone network in the aftermath of Cyclone Amphan have crippled homecare for the elderly, leading to stress and panic which, in turn, are triggering complaints of...

Calcutta is staring at a rise in pollution levels post-lockdown due to uprooting of thousands of trees in the city by cyclone Amphan, environmentalists said.The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has...

A woman in labour was stuck at a flooded Rashbehari crossing on Wednesday night as Cyclone Amphan raged across the city.A police vehicle posted nearby helped her reach a hospital where she gave birth ...

Around 12 trees were uprooted on the sprawling 57-acre garden surrounding the Victoria Memorial Hall. One of the trees fell on a fibreglass rain shed that leads to the office.The statues liberally spr...

Domestic flights are scheduled to start operations and bookings have begun but many Calcuttans stuck in different countries across the globe are still unable to get a seat on the repatriation flights ...

The Army was deployed in Kolkata and neighbouring districts on Saturday for restoration of essential infrastructure and services in the wake of the destruction caused by Cyclone Amphan, a defence offi...

Covid-19 has finally breached the walls of the residential complexes of New Town.Two positive cases have been reported in the last five days. The first was at Animikha Housing Complex. On Saturday, an...

First the full disclosures: I am on the wrong side of 50, I weigh 120-kg-plus, my exercise is limited to squeezing the lemon wedge and shaking the bottle to extract the last drop from both and I gener...

Cyclones usually lose steam after making landfall but even a depleted Amphan kept surging through land like a raging bull because of its high wind speed, which peaked at 185kmph during landfall.In add...