Calcutta

The Bengal government will set up a plasma bank at the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital to help conduct trials for plasma therapy for Covid-19. Doctors and health department officials welcomed t...

A school has started a helpline for parents to “cope with the difficult circumstances” and manage their children, many of whom have become unruly and defiant after being cooped up indoors ...

Jadavpur University will shut down its main administrative building, Auribindo Bhavan, till July 12 after a staff member tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday. ...

Many of Calcutta University’s colleges have found it difficult to calculate the internal assessment marks of BA and BSc third-year students because they have either not held the selection tests ...

The chief minister announced her decision to extend assistance to single screen cinemas, which were damaged by Cyclone Amphan. A proposal has been put forward to help such halls as they have been suff...

The urban development department has given technical approval for a flyover that will connect Metropolitan on EM Bypass with Biswa Bangla Gate in New Town, officials said. The tender for the project, ...

This newspaper drove around the township on Monday and found scarcely any block or compactor station that did not have a heap of garbage lying around. The areas near City Centre and the CGO Complex l...

Pictures of kids in Howrah posing with the carcass of a Gangetic dolphin like a trophy have been doing the rounds of social media groups of animal activists since Sunday. The pictures show the kids w...

The body of a 42-year-old city businessman who had been missing since Tuesday last week was found floating in the Hooghly on Sunday afternoon. His family identified the body on Monday. Bhupal Mukherj...

And yet, those in the know say we have the very first centralised scheme in all of Asia. “Even before Joseph Bazalgette submitted his plans for the central sewerage scheme of London to the Metro...