2018: Two underground passes on the EM Bypass are inaugurated in September — one at Beleghata Connector and the other near Hyatt Regency.1914: A Japanese ship Komagata Maru arrives in Calcutta from Canada on September 27 carrying hundreds of ...

The World Rhinoceros Day on September 22 may have quietly passed by this year but the colourful presence at the junction near Aliah University, where two colourful rhino sculptures stand, is a reminder of the informative session that used ...

● Kolkata Uchchhas, a DB Block-based dance group celebrated Independence Day with an online dance contest. Named Bivongo, the contest was announced a month in advance and dancers recorded their videos and sent them in for judgement.“This was the ...

People with existing predispositions, who do not have diabetes, would do well to keep a watch over their blood glucose level in this pandemic season.We are getting a lot of new patients now. One big reason for that is ...

Misti Hub, which brings sweets from multiple makers under a roof in New Town, finally reopened on Monday. Though only seven of the 11 outlets have opened shutters, residents are more than happy to see the confectionery address back ...

Thousands of women working as help in city homes have been jobless for the last six months after the local train services were paused because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The trains may soon be back, but the jobs may ...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday announced a one-time financial assistance for hawkers ahead of the festive season and also a salary hike for civic volunteers and Asha workers.She also announced that Anganwadi workers would now get pension.“Hawkers are ...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee said the impact of Covid-19 made her sad, which was why she could not be cheerful during the coordination meeting with Durga Puja organisers on Thursday.Mamata asked the organisers to adopt a host of safety ...

Former Atomic Energy Commission chairman Sekhar Basu, who had tested positive for Covid-19, died at a private hospital in Calcutta early on Thursday. He was 68.The nuclear physicist, who was awarded Padma Shri in 2014, is survived by his ...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday laid out the plan for Durga Puja 2020, issuing guidelines from inauguration to immersion that the organisers and administration are expected to follow. A set of directives has been issued keeping the spread ...

Durga Puja celebration in the city may not be the boisterous extravaganza it usually is as most big puja organisers have had to slash their budgets.One puja committee has taken a conscious decision to cut its budget and against ...

Two men were arrested in Bangalore on Thursday on charges of cheating a businessman in Calcutta of Rs 82 lakh by promising to help him set up a seed and fertiliser company’s distribution network in eastern India, police said.Donous ...

Robbers broke into a ground-floor shop in a three-storey building on Lenin Sarani by drilling a hole in the ceiling after getting into a first-floor abandoned room through a window AC opening, police said.The owner has reported Rs 50,000 ...

Soumadeep Mondal got a call in the dead of the night one of these days. It was from the CBI. “I got alarmed until I heard the reason,” says the director of PharmaCo, a medical equipment company. “They needed ...

The Sector V authorities are running a pilot project with a machine that will determine the kind of mosquitoes swarming the area.“The machine has been developed by a start-up and attracts mosquitoes using lactic acid. It can determine the ...

Police on Thursday morning arrested the son-in-law and a contract killer he had hired to murder the retired army man and his wife at their home at Habra’s Tunighata-Mandalpara in North 24-Parganas early on September 16.The police claimed that ...

The Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) and tourism stakeholders have lined up an array of events in the hills and in plains for World Tourism Day on September 27.The events, which include car and bike rallies, seminars, award functions, panel ...

Over 1,000 residents of villages near the Leesh river that flows through Malbazar subdivision of Jalpaiguri on Thursday went to the BDO office to demonstrate for over five hours, alleging government and administrative negligence in addressing erosion for years.The ...

The superintendents of police of Murshidabad and Jangipur police districts have submitted proposals to the state home department for creation of new police stations and manpower.In the Murshidabad police district, authorities have requested the formation of four new stations ...

A rise in Covid cases in Krishnagar prompted its municipal authorities to form a team of 50 dedicated volunteers to deliver essential items at the doorsteps of positive patients in home isolation in the town’s 25 wards.The volunteer service, ...

Traffic to and from Sikkim along NH10 — the principal highway that connects the Himalayan state with the rest of the country — was restored on Thursday morning, a day after four landslides had occurred along the road between ...

A minor girl abducted from Siliguri and rescued in Cooch Behar district died in a road accident with her mother and uncle on Thursday, hours after she was reunited with her family.A police constable also died in the accident.A ...

Bengal on Thursday reported 3,196 Covid-19 cases and 62 deaths on one hand, and 3,014 recoveries on the other, taking the total number of patients past 2.37 lakh, of whom over 2.08 lakh recovered and 4,606 died.Of the new ...

Leaders of Opposition parties in Bengal have written to chief minister Mamata Banerjee, requesting her to call a special session of the Assembly immediately to pass a resolution against the contentious farm and essential commodities laws enacted by Parliament ...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday announced Rs 50,000 each for all community Puja organisers in Bengal and waived the fees they normally have to pay to the civic body and fire services.She added that the Puja organisers would ...

The clinical establishment regulatory commission on Wednesday issued an interim order asking two private hospitals to deposit Rs 1 lakh and Rs 4 lakh after they were prima facie found negligent in the way a Covid-19 patient was treated.Woodlands ...

An extension of timing and more trains are likely by next week, Metro Railway officials said on Wednesday, 10 days into the resumption of commercial services.The last trains leave the terminal stations at 7pm now. Fifty-five pairs of trains ...

The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation will send notices to all guest houses and lodges in Salt Lake and its adjoining areas and ask them to show the documents and licences needed to run the businesses, an official of the corporation ...

An AC single-coach tram on one of Calcutta’s oldest routes — Shyambazar to Esplanade via College Street, commonly referred to as boi para — will now have a library.When tram services on the route resume on Thursday after being ...

Jadavpur University will revive free coaching classes for NET (National Eligibility Test) aspirants on digital platforms in October, said a university official.The classes, which used to be held on the campus, got suspended in March as the campus had ...

The lockdown and discrimination have struck up a nexus to undermine the right to livelihood.“The trips have come down by half. We are stretching every limit to survive. On top of that, we are being discriminated against,” said Mansoor ...

With their crown of parasitic plants and without any plaster left to conceal the brick-and-mortar structures, the four buildings at Nos 1A SN Banerjee Road, and 9, 10 and 11 JL Nehru Road — all LIC property, and all ...

The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations will hold improvement exams for the ICSE and ISC batches of 2020 from October 6 to 9, the council said on Wednesday.The improvement test for ICSE students will be held between ...

The boss of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation has promised to “rectify” public utility buildings and other public spaces that are not friendly towards the physically challenged in terms of facilities.Firhad Hakim, the chairperson of the CMC’s board of administrators, ...

Mosquitoes have laid siege to places along the banks of the Kestopur and Bagjola canals and the Eastern Drainage Channel in Salt Lake, Baguiati, Kestopur and parts of Rajarhat.The reason: stagnant water in these canals.The situation is such that ...

The State Administrative Tribunal (SAT) on Wednesday directed the state government for the second time to obey the Calcutta High Court directive to pay dearness allowance (DA) to its employees on a par with central government employees.The SAT bench ...

Move over, flashy birthday parties at food courts of malls and banquet halls. A couple in West Burdwan’s Jhanjra celebrated their two daughters’ birthdays at a blood bank. Parents Saugata and Parama Mandal hosted an unusual birthday party for ...

Road connectivity between Sikkim and Siliguri snapped on Wednesday when four landslides triggered by heavy rain struck NH10, the principal highway to the Himalayan state.As traffic to Sikkim and Kalimpong came to a grinding halt, local people were not ...

Consistent bouts of monsoon rain in the sub-Himalayan region of Bengal for the second day on Wednesday led to flooding and waterlogging at several places in the plains and triggered major landslides in the hills.As it rained heavily in ...

A Birbhum panchayat on Wednesday helped out Bhadu folk singers, whose earnings have virtually stopped amid the Covid pandemic, by hosting a contest for them and giving all participants money ahead of Durga Puja.Bhadu singers, who roam and sing ...