The Latest Breaking News from Kolkata

KOLKATA: The fire department wanted to demolish an "illegal construction" in the Diamond City South Complex, Tollygunge that Arpita Mukherjee used as a garden. Residents have complained that the construction is an impediment to fire fighting.

KOLKATA: A running Metro rake was repaired on Tuesday morning as the air conditioning system in four coaches developed a snag.

KOLKATA: Motorists challaned by sergeants in central Kolkata can henceforth pay the fine on the spot with cash or debit/credit cards. Sergeants of four traffic guards - Howrah Bridge, Headquarter, South and Jorabagan - have been given e-challan machines where cards can be swiped to make the payments.

KOLKATA: Kolkata Mounted Police, the country's oldest mounted police unit, seems to be discontinuing with its pre-Independence practice of recruiting sowars, civilian horse riders.

KOLKATA: Contractor ITD ITD-Cem has now started shifting Bowbazar residents displaced in the May 11 subsidence, out of their hotels. Their new addresses will be the various flats rented by ITD until the fate of their damaged homes are decided.

KOLKATA: Presidency University has formed a high-powered committee with seven members to inquire into the incidents that occurred last week. Arun Maiti, the dean of students, is the nodal officer to liaison with the committee.

KOLKATA: A group of Hindu men and women, mostly middle-aged professionals from central Kolkata, observed Muharram by offering water and sherbat to those took part in the procession. They offered glasses of sherbat to the mourners as they walked through the city roads in the hot and humid weather.

KOLKATA: The Bidhannagar Electronic Complex and cyber crime police busted an illegal call centre in Sector V on Monday. Sixteen people, including the owner of the call centre, were arrested.

KOLKATA: Of the 30 dengue cases reported in the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) area so far, 11 are from nine houses in Ward 31, which comprises seven blocks of Salt Lake-AE, BE, BF, CE, CF, DE and DF. After the cases were reported, civic teams sprayed larvicide around the houses…

KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court has ordered the governing body of a Kolkata college to reconsider its decision refusing appointment to an applicant to a professor's post on the grounds that he was an amputee. The court said the decision was "regressive" and went against principles of "empowering" persons with disabilities.

KOLKATA: Birbhum’s Trinamool Congress leader Anubrata Mondal on Sunday sent an email to CBI explaining his inability to appear for interrogation on Monday. The leader had been asked to appear before the central agency in connection with the illegal cattle trade case.