A middle-aged woman was run over by a sedan in Ballygunge area of south Kolkata on Sunday, a police officer said.

AAP, which has a negligible presence in West Bengal, has been protesting against the Mamata Banerjee government in the state over the last one year.

India is home to 1,331 bird species, of which about 837 are found in Bengal. In a unique field guide by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), it has documented all these species with their photographs.

A newborn was killed at Tikiapara in Howrah on Friday morning, reportedly following a family dispute over property. Jemima Pervin, the child's aunt, has been arrested.

House-owners in Salt Lake may soon be allowed to construct an additional floor - a proposal that was mooted several years ago. The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started working on a draft plan for this even as civic officials said the proposal has been discussed and accepted in an MMiC meeting. It will now be placed before the board of councillors for approval

Two men, who posed as cops on National Highway 16 at night to extort money from travellers, mercilessly beat up a youth early on Saturday after he refused to pay the amount that they had demanded, leading to his death. The victim's friends alerted cops and a team from the Bagnan police station reached the spot and arrested the duo. They have been charged with murder and snatching.

An assistant sub-inspector of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) dep-loyed at the Indian Museum was shot dead and an assistant commandant injured after a head constable in the force opened fire in the barracks on Saturday evening, shortly after the museum had shut for the day.

West Bengal's Covid-19 toll rose to 21,393 on Saturday as four more persons died due to the contagion while 728 new infections pushed the tally to 20,98,417, a health department bulletin said.

Community market complexes across Salt Lake will soon get a facelift. The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has allocated Rs 2.5 crore funds this year to repair and renovate several markets, which have been in a bad shape.

National Flags made by women in Kashmir are set to flutter in homes of Kolkata soon. Organisations in Kolkata and Kashmir, along with the Army, are facilitating this move to generate funds to help the Kashmiri women earn a living and become self-dependent.

A low-pressure set to form over northwest and adjoining west-central Bay of Bengal on August 7 is likely to trigger rain in the coastal districts of Bengal, including Kolkata between August 9 and 11.

Students of Presidency University on Friday said they were unable to exit the campus after around 50 alleged Trinamool supporters blocked the three gates of the institute. Trinamool Chhatra Parishad, however, denied the claim. A PG student said 10 students were attacked while they were returning home on Friday

Twenty-four hours after the death of a 12-year-old boy at Mahim Halder Street in Kalighat, a rapid action team from the Kolkata Municipal Corporation health department on Friday conducted a special drive in the neighbourhood.

New Covid cases that have dipped below the 1,000-mark since August 1 seem to be on a downward slide with the number sliding to 775 on Thursday from 911 on Wednesday. The number might hover around the 700/800-mark for another two weeks before it plunges significantly and the current surge comes to an end, felt experts.

The Calcutta high court on Thursday asked the Centre not to deport four women Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar till it heard their pleas on August 10. The four women, now detained at Dum Dum Correctional Home after completion of their sentence in 2019, had moved court back in January 31, stating that they fear for their life if deported back to Myanmar and want to stay in India as refugees and be reunited with their minor children now housed in various children's homes in Bengal.

The state government is trying to open the new Tallah bridge before the Pujas, newly appointed state PWD minister Pulak Roy said on Thursday.

A 12-year old resident of Mahim Halder Lane in Kalighat died of dengue on Thursday morning. This is the first dengue death in the city this monsoon, according to Kolkata Municipal Corporation records. Kalighat is a dengue-prone area and has recorded hundreds of cases in the recent past.

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday dismissed a plea filed by the three arrested Jharkhand MLAs that sought a probe by the CBI or an independent agency in the alleged cash scam, saying an accused could not choose which agency should investigate an alleged offence.

The RPF on Wednesday arrested a man from Howrah station for carrying Rs 35 lakh in cash. Rajkumar Soni, 52, was arrested after he failed to explain the source of the funds or the reason why he was carrying the money. The cash was seized and later handed over to the Income Tax department.

Flyers arriving at Kolkata airport are facing confusion and chaos over cab fare due to sudden hike in parking fees for app cabs with no clarity on whether it is included in the fare generated on the app or has to be paid additionally by the passenger. The minimum parking fee for app cabs have been hiked from Rs 60 to Rs 100. The parking time has been increased from one hour to two hours but app-cab operators said it did not help because they do not sit idle for long. App-cab drivers on Wednesday

Two persons - a supervisor and a worker - died and another worker fell unconscious after an alleged exposure to carbon monoxide (CO) at a steel plant in Khardah on Wednesday afternoon.

The Mamata Banerjee government on Wednesday effected its second cabinet reshuffle since being voted to office in 2021 for its third successive term, adding five cabinet ministers and three ministers of state to give Bengal a 44-strong council of ministers.

Former minister Partha Chatterjee's bail plea was rejected on Wednesday by a special PMLA court, which sent him to two more days of Enforcement Directorate custody. His close associate, Arpita Mukherjee, didn't plead for bail and was also remanded in ED custody till August 5.

The man slashed his own throat using that knife at around 3.15 am, according to the preliminary investigation.

Raj Bhavan in the city is gearing up for the 4pm show of swearing-in ceremony of the new ministers, as West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee is going to reshuffle her cabinet. For the swearing-in ceremony at Raj Bhavan, governor La Ganesan who is holding dual charge of Bengal and Manipur is flying down from Imphal.

The short but sharp spells of rain this monsoon have opened up craters on several city roads and made driving a challenge for motorists and a hazard for two-wheeler riders. KMC roads department officials said urgent repairs will be carried out soon.

In the biggest allotment of e-buses in India, the process of handing over of 1,180 e-buses will kick off in Kolkata on Wednesday with the Bengal transport department signing a memorandum of understanding with Tata Motors Ltd for the operation and maintenance of these buses under the Opex model. Under Opex, the buses will be operated and maintained by the manufacturer. The state will pay a per km rate. Also, the driver and conductor will be provided by West Bengal Transport Corporation (WBTC).

The Bengal government, which from mid-July started settling Swasthya Sathi claims directly instead of re-routing it through insurance companies, has now decided to cap package rates for cancer, orthopaedic, neurosurgery and pain-management procedures. It has also fixed rates for 129 cancer drugs while weeding out several expensive ones from the treatment protocol under the scheme besides capping hospitalisation rat-es for chemotherapy.

A woman in her late thirties, Subhra Ghorui, a resident of Amtala in South 24 Parganas, who had come to the OPD of ESI Hospital at Joka for the treatment of a relative, threw her slippers at Partha Chatterjee while he was being taken back to the CGO Complex in Salt Lake by Enforcement Directorate officers after his mandatory health check-up on Tuesday afternoon.

ED officers on Tuesday raided seven premises related to Arpita Mukherjee - three nail salons and four flats - the most in a day since her arrest last Saturday, taking the total number of properties raided in her connection to 15 in the last 10 days.

The incident took place when the overhead shed collapsed around 5.45 PM as a group of labourers were working underneath it, Bongaigaon Superintendent of Police Swapnaneel Deka said.

The agency, which filed a supplementary prosecution complaint in the case on Tuesday said that it has so far issued seven attachment orders in the case.

he property is owned by Arpita Mukherjee, a close aide of former West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee.

20-year-old Achinta Sheuli from a village in Howrah broke the meet's records to win gold medal at Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Photos: Shubhojyoti Kanjilal / TNN

Depressed over their daughter's demise in a road accident on June 2, her parents too took their own lives.

Daily new Covid cases - the most prominent marker of the prevalence of the virus - slid below the 500-mark in Bengal for the first time since June 26. Bengal recorded 436 cases on Monday. Positivity rate, too, came down to 6.3%. The last the state had recorded less than 500 cases was on June 26 when the state registered 493 cases.

The Bengal government is likely to start recruitment of 21,000 upper primary and classes IX, X, XI and XII teachers, including headmasters, before the Pujas, state education minister Bratya Basu said on Monday.

A month after the government banned plastic less than 75 microns, traders and consumers continue to flout the ban. The use of the banned variety is rampant across city wholesale and retail markets right under the nose of the administration.

Deulpur, a nondescript village in Howrah some two hours by road from the city, barely has a population of 15,000. But on Monday morning, most of its residents were out on the streets, dancing, cheering and waving the Tricolour.

At least three private hospitals in Kolkata will start squeezing their Covid units on Monday following a steady drop in occupancy since last week. Two more could follow within the next seven days. The reduction in Covid beds could see a corresponding rise in the number of non-Covid beds at these hospitals, said the authorities.

An eight-year-old child, sleeping on the pavement outside a multi-storeyed office complex near Moulali was mowed down by a car that had rode up a steep incline from the basement parking of the building, which cops said had possibly cut off the driver's vision of the child sleeping on the pavement. The incident happened on Lenin Sarani around 8.30pm on Saturday when little Trisha Dutta (8), a Class III student at a local school was sleeping beside her two infant cousins.

Bengal, in spite of falling figures nationally, has seen a 15.4% spurt in child adoptions - most of them of girls - during the pandemic, propelling the state to the fourth position nationally.

: A Howrah court on Sunday remanded the three Jharkhand MLAs and their two aides - who were caught with Rs 49 lakh in cash in Howrah on Saturday - in 10 days' police custody, even as the Congress suspended the trio and was set to move for their disqualification from the assembly, as the shocked party leadership started looking at the future of hwarting BJP's attempts to dislodge the coalition government in Ranchi.

Amar noy, amar noy, amar noy (not mine, not mine, not mine), former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee told newspersons on Sunday, referring to the money seized by the ED from various locations associated with his alleged close associate Arpita Mukherjee over the course of about a week.

The Kolkata Police STF on Sunday morning intercepted one alleged Murshidabad based notorious arms, ammunition and fake currency dealer.

The Kolkata Traffic Police has proposed multiple changes along EM Bypass and the Kasba connector around Ruby crossing where traffic is expected to increase once the Garia-Airport Metro corridor begins operations till Ruby crossing.

The city is set to end July - the rainiest of the monsoon months - with a rain deficit of 41%, the highest since 2019 when it recorded a massive 62% shortfall for June and July. Gangetic Bengal, too, has a massive 47% deficit for the month, again the highest since 2019.

In an attempt to prevent filling of ponds across the city, particularly the ones located in added areas, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has decided to tweak its assessment policy. From now, the KMC assessment department inspectors, while assessing any particular house which has a pond, will take a dual assessment policy.

Jadavpur University professor Herkan Neadan Toppo, accused of attempt to rape by a researcher earlier in June, was arrested by Kolkata Police on Friday after he reportedly surrendered at the local court on Friday. DC (south suburban) Awadhesh Pathak said Toppo has been taken in police custody till August 6 for further questioning.