Residents ushered in the Bengali New Year on Tuesday using new technology. They sang, danced and recited like on any other year but without laying a foot out of their houses. Their stage was their liv...
Parents confined in homes and bickering over uncertainty in their workplaces is affecting children, the state child rights watchdog has said.The state commission for protection of child rights has ask...
Mamata Banerjee on Friday talked about an octogenarian who donated Rs 10,000 to the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund to stress the importance of “positive things” amid the Covid-19 crisis.“Many ca...
Some roads in Calcutta were sealed with guardrails on Friday to prevent vehicles and residents of the neighbourhood from coming out.In these areas, police used loudhailers to announce that people shou...
A temporary market in Jagatpur near Baguiati was shut down on Thursday because it had been attracting large crowds every day in violation of the social distancing norms.There are around 200 stalls mad...
Belle Vue Clinic has set up a fever clinic outside the hospital building, the culmination of a process that officials said got delayed because of the lockdown. The fever clinic started earlier this we...
The Union health ministry on Wednesday listed 170 districts nationwide, including Calcutta, Howrah, East Midnapore and North 24-Parganas, as “hotspots” for Covid-19 that can earn the infection-fre...
The Presidency Alumni Association started providing its elderly members, present students, teachers and other members of the staff of Presidency University with hand sanitisers and masks from Wednesda...
The tests for the remaining papers of the Bengal higher secondary exams will be held in June and all Class IX students of the schools following the HS curriculum will be promoted to Class XII, the chi...
The Indian Council of Medical Research has distributed 7,500 kits among the five state-run laboratories in Bengal that are conducting Covid-19 tests, officials at Niced, the laboratory that is distrib...