Calcutta

More quarantine facilities are being planned across Bengal as part of an attempt to identify as many people exposed to the coronavirus as possible and minimise chances of community transmission of the...

A pandemic and widespread displacement from homes could be the perfect opportunity for human traffickers, the state child rights panel has warned the district authorities and asked them to take necess...

Two men in their twenties were arrested from Pramodgarh in Rajarhat and Kestopur in connection with the circulation of fake coronavirus messages using the template of a Bengali news channel, police sa...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday put the death toll from Covid-19 in Bengal at three, saying figures were being included by a section of the media without confirmation.Later in the evening,...

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A 24-year-old woman who had tested positive for Covid-19 was discharged from the Infectious Diseases and Beleghata General Hospital, along with two other patients, on Tuesday. All three tested negativ...

Children from underprivileged families have been pleading with teachers to resume school and give them respite from the mental, and at times physical, trauma that many of them face at home.Most of the...

The civic authorities in Calcutta and its neighbouring cities have identified schools, clubs and community halls as temporary shelters for people living in dilapidated buildings or on pavements to pro...

Eight-year old Mriganka had been saving up for over three years to buy the complete set of Harry Potter books, but he decided to empty his little blue bag for a community kitchen instead.The Class III...

A doctor who tested positive for Covid-19 last week and decided to stay in home isolation because she had mild symptoms alleged that the local civic body and some residents of the area had been pressu...