Kolkata

While Bengal's Mamata Banerjee government has allowed community pujas with certain strict Covid protocol riders and even funded them from the exchequer, the possibility of no-bar pandal hopping has kept the city’s medical fraternity thoroughly apprehensiv...

Netizens had a rush of nostalgia when the news broke and welcomed the sight of the modernised buses. The double deckers were introdcued in Kolkata by the Britishers back in 1920 but were taken off the roads by the then Left government.

Roy was the governor of Tripura from 2015 to 2018 and of Meghalaya from August 2018 to the end of his term on August 19, 2020. He was a member of the BJP national executive, the party’s central policymaking body, from 2002 until 2015.

At an official function outside state secretariat 'Nabanna', Banerjee urged the people to follow all precautions during the festive season as the COVID-19 pandemic has reached an 'alarming' level.

I-League Qualifiers: William Opoku was the lone goalscorer as FC Bengaluru FC brought up their first win of the tournament.

The family has accused the chairman of Titagarh municipality Prashanta Chowdhury and Uttam Das, chairman of Barrackpore municipality along with seven others of the killing.

Shukla was shot dead on Sunday evening by two unknown bike-borne assailants while he was attending a party meeting at B T Road, following which he was taken to a nearby private hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.

BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya who is the party's Bengal minder, gave a call to defeat the "corrupt, undemocratic and autocratic" TMC in Assembly elections due next year.

Elections to more than 107 civic bodies, including Kolkata Municipal Corporation, has been pending for over a year and these bodies are currently run by administrators appointed by the state.

The Metro Railway will run a total of 58 services on Sundays at a 20 minute interval, its spokesperson said on Tuesday.

Keshav Dixit came to Kolkata in 1950s from Nagpur for Sangh’s ‘samaj kalyan’ (social welfare work) and loved the city so much that he never thought to go back.

Adhir Choudhury said the arrest of six alleged al-Qaeda operatives from Murshidabad district shows 'total intelligence failure on the part of state police who are only busy running errands for Trinamool Congress leaders.'

DGFT is understood to have communicated to the Customs Department to give the go-ahead to cargo that have arrived at the port, but not to ones which are in transit, they said.

The group of researchers also successfully managed to delineate the high and low arsenic zones across the Ganges River delta using AI and quantify the number of people exposed.

The state BJP chief said this at a public rally in Dhaniakhali area in Hooghly district on Wednesday. The video clip is now the doing rounds on Twitter and other social media platforms.

The government has taken preventive measures like social distancing, mandatory wearing of masks and provision of sanitisers in metros to prevent the spread of the pandemic.