The city police prosecuted 701 people on Saturday night for multiple offences such as disorderly conduct and violation of traffic rules and night-time lockdown restrictions, officers said. The prosecutions were part of a “special night drive” conducted jointly by ...

The Calcutta diocese of the Church of North India (CNI) resumed communion service at St Paul’s Cathedral on Sunday. Communion services had been suspended at all CNI churches under the diocese since March as a precaution against the spread ...

Sabita (name changed), a resident of North 24-Parganas, has made at least five trips to her local police station to file an FIR against a person who allegedly trafficked her to a brothel in Pune when she was a ...

The first flush from Darjeeling comes in March. It is a light, bright aromatic tea, and the young leaves are delicately plucked. The second flush, from the second foliage, comes in May. It is mellow and full of flavour. ...

A 60-year-old man was found hanging at his home early on Sunday, hours after doctors at a government hospital, where he went with severe leg pain, allegedly told him to go to another hospital as no orthopaedic was available.The ...

Sixty people with visual impairment, out-of-work because of the lockdown, got a few days’ dry ration from two NGOs on Saturday.Many of the recipients used to sell different items on local trains in the Sealdah North section.The distribution of ...

A woman who has tested positive for Covid-19, along with three others in the family, allegedly faced hostile behaviour from neighbours who did not want her and her eight-year-old son to stay in home isolation.Five other families of the ...

Several roads of Calcutta will have bays earmarked for cyclists, the state government has decided.The urban development department has engaged a Faridabad-based consulting firm to conduct a preliminary survey of some thoroughfares of Calcutta where a bay can be ...

A number of city schools are trying to cut costs to remain financially viable at a time when they are not getting fees and finding it increasingly difficult to raise funds for additional expenditure.Reducing the number of buses, discontinuing ...

Over 350 Trinamul Congress supporters from 72 families here have been on the run since June 18 following alleged threats at gunpoint by miscreants led by North 24-Parganas zilla parishad member and party leader Feroz Kamal Gazi who objected ...

Three associations of tourism stakeholders in Bengal have come up decisions and demands to try and pragmatically revive the sector.Tourism is among the worst-hit sectors in the Covid-19 pandemic.Associations Travel Agents’ Association of Bengal (TAAB), Eastern Himalaya Travel & ...

Rising Covid-19 cases prompted the Malda district administration to draw up fresh plans to prevent the infection from spreading in Malda town and across the district.In Malda, 25 new Covid-19 cases were reported on Sunday, taking the number of ...

A Calcutta High Court division bench on Saturday expressed concern over the “alarming rise” in child marriages in Bengal during the Covid-19-induced lockdown.Justice Harish Tandon and Justice Soumen Sen directed the police chiefs of all districts to take serious ...

BJP East Midnapore district secretary Pabitra Das suffered a bullet injury when a clash broke out between armed gangs owing allegiance to the BJP and the Trinamul Congress near here on Sunday morning. Pabitra Das was injured in the ...

Visva-Bharati varsity officials, led by vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty, on Sunday went to Birbhum’s Belgoria to meet the family of soldier Rajesh Orang, who was killed in the Galwan Valley clash, and handed his sister Shakuntala a letter from the ...

Bengal set a new record in intra-day Covid-19 cases with 572 people being infected in 24 hours till 9am on Sunday.The figure surpassed the previous highest count of 542 reported on Friday. The state logged 1,635 new coronavirus cases ...

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said no Bengal district was covered by the Centre’s Rs 50,000 crore scheme to generate jobs for migrant workers who had gone back home during the lockdown as the Mamata Banerjee government ...

 A group of Zomato food delivery platform employees in Calcutta tore and burnt their official T-shirts to protest Chinese investment in the firm.The agitation comes in the backdrop of the killing of 20 Indian soldiers in a clash with ...

A five-member panel has opposed the proposal of separating Central Mines Planning and Design Institute Ltd (CMPDIL) from Coal India, saying that the move could not be helpful for the miner which is pursuing a target of producing one ...

The Church of North India’s Calcutta diocese will start prayer and meditation with a maximum of 25 people at a time at St Paul’s Cathedral and six other churches from Sunday, Reverend Paritosh Canning, the bishop of Calcutta, said ...

Several people who arrived in the city from Bangladesh on Saturday played cat and mouse with police at the airport terminal to avoid going to a quarantine facility.A US Bangla Airlines flight with 164 evacuees on board arrived at ...

Human hands and the heavy metal of a crane have together tried to undo nature’s doing on two 200-year-old trees on the western bank of the Hooghly.On the IIEST Shibpur campus, two mahogany trees overlooking the Oval ground could ...

A 10-year-old boy was abducted from outside his Tiljala home on Friday afternoon after which his family got ransom calls for Rs10 lakh. He was rescued from a guesthouse in Behala’s Parnasree, some 10km from his home, on Saturday ...

Twelve persons, including a few women, were injured in a spate of clashes that began on Friday night between BJP and Trinamul workers over alleged graft in enlisting Amphan beneficiaries at Nazat in South 24-Parganas’ Sandeshkhali block.The clash, which ...

The administrations of Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri and Malda districts have decided to draw up new regulations to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.In and around Siliguri, where over 250 Covid-19 cases and 14 deaths have been reported so far, ...

Nonstop monsoon rain on Saturday led to fresh landslides in many places of Sikkim while swelling rivers led to flooding in some tea plantations in north Bengal.The worst hit is north Sikkim, the district that shares borders with China.As ...

The Trinamul Congress disciplinary committee has served showcause notices to 63 party members, including two heavyweights from Bankura and Durgapur, on Friday on charges of alleged corruption in delivering relief materials to people during the Covid-19 pandemic.Durgapur mayor-in-council member ...

The Bengal forest department has decided to set up 176 beat offices across the state to augment vigilance in forest beats — the lowest tier of the department.“We are taking every possible step to protect the forests and wildlife. ...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s plans to engineer a political consensus to demand Rs 10,000 for every migrant worker and a national disaster status for Amphan has run into a hurdle, as the state unit of the BJP has disagreed ...

The Bengal government has done away with printed application forms and allowed people to apply for compensation by giving their details on plain paper amid growing complaints of graft in Amphan relief. “A simple plain paper application would be ...

Bengal on Saturday reported 521 new Covid-19 cases, taking the total number of infections to 16,711 so far, but the state’s recovery rate of 64.56 per cent is still far ahead of the national rate of 58.41.Although Friday and ...

A mason in East Midnapore’s Egra, reduced to poverty by the Covid-induced lockdown, agreed to get his 15-year-old daughter married off, but he was in for a surprise. His daughter, a Madhyamik examinee, not only refused to get married, ...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced on Friday that private hospitals could not charge more than Rs 2,250 for a Covid-19 swab test and no patient could be charged more than Rs 1,000 a day for personal protection equipment.Mamata also ...

The owners of 6,000 buses will be given Rs 15,000 each a month for three months from July to help them bring out their vehicles, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Friday.The total expenditure over three months will be ...

Bengal has asked the Centre to stop international evacuation flights to Calcutta unless it ensures passengers have booked paid quarantine facilities for themselves before boarding a flight, a move that follows instances of fliers heading home from the airport ...

Mamata Banerjee on Friday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, registering her protest against the Centre’s policy to allow 100 per cent Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the coal mining sector. In her letter, the Bengal chief minister said ...

The Bengal government has compiled a report suggesting that at least nine districts in the state could have qualified for the Centre’s Rs 50,000 crore scheme to provide jobs to migrant workers who returned home during the lockdown.Sources said ...

The CPM and the Trinamul Congress found in fuel price hike a common reason to pack a punch at the Narendra Modi government for putting further burden on the people who are already reeling from the adverse economic consequences ...

Incessant showers across north Bengal since Thursday evening led to flood-like situations in some areas of Cooch Behar and Malda districts where rivers and streams swelled and started gobbling land along the banks.In 24 hours till 8.30am on Friday, ...

The Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) has approved the post graduate course in pharmacy at the North Bengal University and also approved more number of seats than what the varsity had allotted for students pursuing Master of Pharmacy (MPharm).The ...