Calcutta

Fedora Kolentine, 9, has missed the annual ritual of visiting New Market this year to buy Easter eggs and hampers for her friends and cousins.New Market is closed. The few confectioneries that are run...

Three hundred families, staring at hunger because of Covid-19, got a week’s free ration at a distribution camp at St Xavier’s College on Good Friday.Each family got three kilos of rice, two kilos ...

The medical waste generated by contacts of Covid-19 positive persons quarantined at their homes can spread the infection unless collected and treated properly, warn public health experts.Though the Bi...

At a time when the supply lines are running dry with potential donors stuck indoors due to the nationwide lockdown, residents of New Town came together to help in the treatment of a seven-year-old aff...

Arsalan scion Raghib Parwez — the prime accused in the Jaguar crash that killed two Bangladeshis on Shakespeare Sarani last year — was granted conditional bail for two months on Wednesday.The high...

A family of around 14 members, all of who practise art, has made illustrations on the main thoroughfare in Patuli to create awareness about Covid-19. Gurupada Bachar, in his late 50s, and his family m...

Thirty of the 79 healthcare providers of NRS hospital quarantined over the weekend for being exposed to a coronavirus patient have tested negative for Covid-19, the state health department said on Tue...

Focaccia, raisin walnut bread, buns and a few other types of bread will be delivered at homes and also sold from two outlets of Kookie Jar.The confectionery has decided to open its Rawdon Street and H...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday urged people with symptoms of Covid-19 to visit only designated hospitals for coronavirus patients such as MR Bangur Hospital.Mamata’s call came after about ...

At a time thousands in India are infected with Covid-19, several parts of the country responded to the Prime Minister’s call for a nationwide lumiére show by bursting high-decibel crackers like the...