Calcutta

A septuagenarian lady, just out of hospital, was hounded out of a rented flat in Dhakuria by some residents for fear of “the spread of Covid-19 from an outsider”, her son has alleged.The woman, pa...

Thousands of people have come to Howrah station on trains from Delhi since partial resumption of passenger train services.The 20-coach train that is travelling between Howrah and New Delhi can carry 1...

A private engineering college of Bankura is trying to attract students, riding on its location within a “green” zone on Bengal’s Covid map.A district is labelled “green” if it reports no new...

More Covid-19 cases are now being reported from “buildings” than slums, Firhad Hakim, the chairman of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation’s board of administrators, said on Friday. A civic offici...

Residents of Baisakhi Abasan took to the streets, paintbrush in hand, to raise awareness about Covid-19.A huge coronavirus catches the eye from a distance as one approaches AMP Vaisaakhi Mall from Bid...

Police is on the lookout for nearly 30 people who attended the cremation of a Sukantanagar woman who died purportedly of a stroke but was later found to have been Covid-positive.The lady in her 50s su...

An orthopaedic surgeon who had volunteered to join the fight against Covid-19 at his workplace in East Midnapore, and did what many doctors are shying away from, allegedly faced his neighbours’ wrat...

Only 100 of the 2,000-odd students of a church-run school in central Calcutta have paid the first quarter fees. The unusual number shows how “difficult” the financial situation is for parents, the...

The Bengal government is working on a proposal to have taxis back on Calcutta’s streets against a 30 per cent additional charge on the metered fare.The idea came from taxi operators at a meeting on ...

Cheerleaders are at work in one corner. Cupid has struck in another.Alipore zoo has remained shut to visitors for over a month and a half but keepers are trying to ensure life goes on as normal for 1,...