A 12-year-old girl in Hingalganj in North 24-Parganas messaged her school headmaster at 7.30pm on Wednesday that her house was about to collapse.“Sir, amra khub kharap poristithi te achhi. Amader gh...
Cyclone Amphan has killed at least 76 people across south Bengal, 19 of them in Calcutta.Most of the victims died of electrocution, after being crushed under uprooted trees and branches or after being...
Four more teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) are being sent to Bengal that has borne the brunt of the devastation caused by cyclone Amphan which made landfall at Sagar Island, over 1...
Rajdeep Ray, GreenfieldResident of Heights New Town, 18 floorI have been living here in New Town for the past several years and seen several storms but this time it was surely different.I had made it ...
Amit Sen, 54, filmmakerResident of South City, 34th and 35th floorI have been living here for 10 years now. By now we (my wife, my sons and I) have become accustomed to earthquakes.We have seen the e...
Residents of highrises have been advised to keep their windows shut and jam their rails using cloth pieces or erasers so they do not slide open when hit by gusty winds to be brought by Cyclone Amphan....
A woman has been socially boycotted by her neighbours in Subhasgram, South 24-Parganas, after she returned from Pushkar in Rajasthan’s Ajmer and stayed in home quarantine and tested negative for Cov...
St Xavier’s Collegiate School has sent a circular to parents on Monday to place an online order for books that will be delivered to them within seven days.The school will start the interactive onlin...
A flight from Dhaka landed at the Calcutta airport with 169 passengers on Monday afternoon, the first plane to touch down the city under the second phase of a project to bring back Indians stuck abroa...
The state’s regulatory commission for private hospitals has received several complaints over the past few weeks that healthcare units are overcharging patients for personal protective equipment and ...