Calcutta

Final-semester students of the state technology university have appealed for a rollback of the examination fees on the ground that the authorities have scrapped the exams this year because of the Covi...

In this Covid-hit world, it’s the schoolteachers who are reaching out to counsellors in their institutions and outside to cope with the stress during the pandemic. Some of the teachers are crac...

The app cab owner arrested for allegedly stabbing a woman in his vehicle had placed an order for a knife with a shop in Bishnupur in South 24-Parganas during the lockdown, police said on Sunday. The ...

An evacuation flight from Dubai landed in Calcutta on Sunday evening with 174 people. Of the evacuees, 70 have opted for paid quarantine at hotels, said officials. Nine have been exempt from institut...

Cyclone Amphan has turned the lives of many in villages of East Midnapore upside down and when such catastrophe strikes, the response has always been the same: they paint. The patuas of East Midnapor...

The sky was overcast throughout Sunday and the city received uniform rain in the first half under the impact of a cyclonic circulation off the Andhra coast that led to the formation of a low-pressure ...

The urban development department will undertake another round of repairs of several flyovers and bridges in Calcutta, some of which engineers had wanted demolished. The flyover that connects EM Bypas...

A fire brigade official said eight fire tenders were deployed to control the flames. “We got a call at 9.50am. The fire was doused by noon,” said the official. The smoke rising in the air...

Titas Mukherjee runs Animal Rescue and Care Kolkata (ARC) in Thakurpukur, which feeds more than 500 dogs in places like Thakurpukur, Pailan and Joka. Now they have started feeding them on alternate da...

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