KMC sero study to find antibodies in vaccinated citizens

This Independence Day, Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is set to embark on a serological survey project to find out if

Bengal crosses 3 crore Covid vaccination mark

Bengal reached 3 crore vaccinations on Monday, a step that will play a significant role in restricting mortality and severe

BJP has brought Duare Gunda to Tripura: Abhishek Banerjee

Trinamool Congress national general secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee came under attack by a group of people waving BJP

Kolkata: Weekend footfall fuels turnaround hopes at malls

During the weekend, malls in the city witnessed the highest footfall and sales so far since reopening in mid-June. Some of

Covid-19: Cinemas set to reopen after break

Free tickets for Olympians, vaccinated staff and opportunity to book auditorium for private screenings of favourite content

Kolkata: Night violations, repeat offenders worry cops

The increasing trend of repeat offenders being prosecuted for violating the 9pm-5am curbs is becoming a concern for police.

Calcutta HC hearing on Post-poll violence: CBI probe sought into serious crimes

Khela Hobe slogan will soon be popular across India: Mamata

Schools may reopen on Sept 1: Assam CM

Life term for main accused in hooch tragedy

A court here on Monday awarded life imprisonment to Khora Badshah, the main accused in 2011 hooch tragedy that claimed 172

Kolkata hospital recalls Olympic boxers visit with mother

When Indias latest boxing sensation Lovlina Borgohain takes to the Olympic boxing ring on Wednesday, the country will be

Requests pour in for KMC doorstep vax enrolment

A day after the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) announced the vaccination-at-doorstep programme, enquiries started

Pay Rs 40 crore, plant 100 trees for axing 62: Calcutta HC

The Calcutta high court has directed a real estate group to pay Rs 40 crore within 15 days and plant 100 trees in order to

Kol: PG-qualified women among 8k applicants for 6 dom posts

Bandana Mistry is a postgraduate in Bengali literature, Swarnali Samanta is a history graduate, while Sikha Sinha is a

Videographer held, no link with Raj Kundra case: Bidhannagar Police

Kolkata: NCB busts high-quality cannabis global supply racket, three held

Kolkata: BJP holds 1-km marathon for athletes despite no police nod

Babul Supiyo slams Bengal BJP chief, Dilip Ghosh says ex-minister wants to be

Abhishek Banerjee to visit Tripura today, BJP says focus on Bengal, not outside

Former Manipur Cong chief Govindas Konthoujam joins BJP

Konthoujam joined BJP in the presence of Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh, state BJP chief A Sharda Devi, Rajya Sabha MP

Brown sugar worth Rs 14 lakh seized in Bengal, 2 held

Two persons were arrested from West Bengal's Malda district after brown sugar worth around Rs 14 lakh was seized from their

Two-time Asansol MP Babul Supriyo says alvida politics

Two-time Asansol MP and former Union minister Babul Supriyo said on social media on Saturday that he was quitting politics

West Bengal: Help held for killing Baguiati woman

Cops probing the murder of a 62-year-old woman living alone at her Baguiati home last week, arrested a young domestic help

Misuse reports prompt govt-hosp meet on Swasthya Sathi tomo

The state health department has convened a meeting of all private cancer hospitals empanelled under Swasthya Sathi after

Former West Bengal higher education minister Sudarshan Roy Chowdhury passes

WB: More micro C-zones in BMC, South Dum Dum areas

Eight areas under South Dum Dum Municipality have been declared as micro containment zones after several cases were reported

Kolkata Municipal Corporation seal on doorstep vax drive

Bedridden due to a spinal cord injury, Lake View Road resident Dipti Mukherjee had given up hope of getting the Covid vaccine

Kol: East-West Metro rake rolls in under Sealdah

History was made on Saturday as the first rake rolled into the Metro station coming up 17m below Sealdah, the busiest

Arun Arora is new GM of Eastern railways

Mograhat hooch tragedy: Nine years later, main accused convicted

Badaun man held for Kolkata murder: Cops

Access to Mrinal Sen's lost gems now possible

Kolkata: Presentation marks World Tiger Day digitally

Needle removed from nasal cavity near brain

Kolkata: Doctors remove needle from 50-year-old mans nasal cavity near brain

Babul Supriyo says hes quitting politics, infighting between senior leaders

Residents power-less as downpour inundates Kol localities

A private bank executive from Biren Roy Road (West) in Behala, Kuntal Saha couldnt attend office for the past two days. At

Kolkata theatres to wait for new content

After Bengal allowed cinemas to reopen, city exhibitors have taken a cautious approach keeping Covid numbers and the

CBSE keeps high-score trend going, UG seat crunch feared

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class XII results, declared on Friday, continued with the trend of high

CBSE topper leads high-scorer club with 1 mark short of 500

One mark short of 500, Archisman Bandyopadhyay from South Point High School is perhaps the highest scorer of CBSE XII this

Fuel rates constant in Kolkata, but revision hope low

Following 42 hikes in around two months, petrol price in the city has remained unchanged at Rs 102.14 for two weeks. Diesel

Compensation pending: BJP sends list of post-poll violence victims to its

TMC notice to Humayun Kabir over threat to fellow MLA at meeting

Heavy rain continues in Bengal, 2 dead in Kalimpong

BJP considers moving court seeking Mukul Roys disqualification as MLA

Suvendu Adhikari to TMC govt: Bypolls can wait, give jabs to 18-plus first

Torrential rain brings life to halt in Bengal

Torrential rain over the past two days owing to the formation of a low-pressure area over Gangetic West Bengal has thrown

NH-10 blocked due to landslide near Kalimpong

National Highway (NH) 10 has been blocked due to a landslide near Kalimpong on Friday

Mukul Roy disqualification issue: BJP to move HC if hearing in Speakers court

Pandemic didnt just take away my livelihood but also passion, says Kolkata

Burning bright: Assam tiger count touches 200

The tiger population has risen to 200 in Assam, the state forest department said on Global Tiger Day on Thursday even as

Kolkata: Fire breaks out at godown in Ultadanga, no injuries

A fire broke out at a godown in Kolkata's Ultadanga area on Friday

Kolkata: Hookah bar, cafe raided, 10 held

Kolkata Police have now started raiding all commercial establishments they find open after 9pm. Cops raided a cafe and a

After 2 jabs, 3 of Salt Lake family went to ICU with Covid

Three members of a family in Salt Lake each of them fully vaccinated against Covid caught the infection earlier this month

West Bengal: Cinemas set to open with 50% capacity

After three months of closure, the state on Thursday allowed cinemas in Bengal to reopen with 50% seating capacity and

Alipore CJM saves 2 lawyers from electrocution death

The chief judicial magistrate of Alipore police court on Thursday afternoon rescued two lawyers, who slipped and touched an

Heavy rain batters south Bengal, man electrocuted in Kolkata

West Bengal: Covid curbs extended till August 15, cinema halls can reopen

CPM member writes for TMC mouthpiece, faces show-cause notice

Magnitude 3.1 earthquake strikes in Assam

An earthquake of magnitude 3.1 was reported near Assam's Tezpur on Thursday, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said

Rain affects normal life in south West Bengal

Heavy overnight rain owing to a well-marked low pressure over Bangladesh and West Bengal affected normal life in Kolkata and

Severe bone disease, months after Covid cure, worries docs

Avascular necrosis, a debilitating disease that causes bone degeneration, has struck a few patients in Kolkata who had

Post-poll violence: File supplementary affidavits on NHRC report by July 31,

Jawhar Sircar files nomination as TMCs Rajya Sabha candidate

Kol: 1,000 booked for curb flouting on a weekday

The city witnessed 1,006 prosecutions between 9pm and 11pm on Tuesday night the highest during a two-hour drive on a weekday

Presi Univ may reopen portal as JEE set to refund test fee

Students, who were disappointed when West Bengal Joint Entrance Exam Board cancelled the entrance tests at Presidency

Covaxin jab only for 2nd-dose recipients: WB health dept

Due to the rising number of recipients whose second dose of Coxavin is due and the scanty supply of the vaccine, the state

Former civic volunteer arrested for posing as cop, duping contractor of Rs 48

Lawyers stage protest near acting CJ's court

A section of lawyers on Wednesday staged a brief protest in front of the court of acting chief justice Rajesh Bindal

Sircar files nomination papers for Rajya Sabha poll

Trinamool Congress announces its support for the retired bureaucrat

Police probe unnatural death at Bengal BJP headquarter

The Hastings police has lodged a case of unnatural death and started a probe into the death of a Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha

'Kata tel back in Kol riding on record petrol price surge

'Kata tel or adulterated fuel sale spike amid the record breaking surge in fuel prices has emerged as a fresh concern in the

WB CM repeats Pegasus demands after meeting PM Modi

Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee repeated her demand for a Supreme Court-monitored probe into and an all-party meeting on the

NHRCs report perverse, absurd, WB govt tells Calcutta HC

The state government has called the National Human Rights Commissions report on post-poll violence in Bengal perverse, absurd

Trial of 3rd vax nears end in Kol; results encouraging

A trial for an Indian version of Russias Sputnik V vaccine which is nearing completion at Peerless Hospital has found good

After over 2 months, 100 take-offs from Kol twice in July

The number of departing flights from Kolkata airport has touched the 100-mark twice this month after a gap of nearly three

Ahead of 3rd wave, experts split over efficacy of vaccines

Even as the supply of Covaxin has been down to a trickle in recent weeks, making thousands of second-dose recipients wait for

Post-poll violence: NHRC team fraught with bias, TMC government tells Calcutta

Mamata terms meeting with PM a courtesy call

I sought more doses of vaccines, says Bengal Chief Minister

'Panel probing post-poll violence is baised

The TMC government in West Bengal has alleged in an affidavit filed before the Calcutta High Court that the NHRC committee

Border clash: 3-day state mourning in Assam

In view of the death of six people in the border clash with neighbouring Mizoram, the Assam government on Tuesday declared

Bengals Pegasus probe panel to inquire into interceptions, find out mechanism

Ghar-wapsi buzz as East Burdwan MP meets Mukul Roy

East Burdwan MP Sunil Mondal on Monday triggered ghar-wapsi speculations after he called on Trinamool Congress leader Mukul

WB sets up two-judge panel to probe snoopware charges

The Bengal cabinet on Monday set up a two-member commission, comprising retired Supreme Court judge Madan B Lokur and former

Mamata to meet PM today, raise vaccine issue & funds

Around two months after their brief meeting in Kalaikunda snowballed into a Centre-state stand-off, chief minister Mamata

BJP leader Raju Sarkar dies after row at West Bengal HQ

A BJP Yuva Morchas Bengal unit vice-president was declared dead at a private hospital off Bypass on Monday evening after he

Venice Film Festival: Film on City of Joy only Indian movie

Twenty-one years after Buddhadeb Dasguptas Uttara won the special directors award at the Venice Film Festival, National Award

Mamata has gone to Delhi to relax, parry queries on violence: Ghosh

Save Visva Bharati, TMC MP urges Union minister

Kolkata: Left ready to work with any anti-BJP party: Biman Bose