The Latest Breaking News from Kolkata

KOLKATA: IndiGo began operation of direct flight between Kolkata and Deoghar on Tuesday.

KOLKATA: Seven people, including four schoolchildren, were injured when a speeding bus hit three other vehicles and a pool car in the southern part of Kolkta on Tuesday morning, police said.

The PM was in Deoghar to inaugurate and launch development projects worth ₹16,835 crore, including the airport and the AIIMS

Commercial services at the swanky Sealdah metro station, connecting the IT hub of Sector 5, will begin on July 15

KOLKATA: A group of six bikers from Kolkata, including an onco-surgeon, travelled all the way to Leh and Ladakh to spread the message of cancer prevention and awareness. They distributed leaflets among the people they met while riding through the mountains. The aim of the group — belonging to varied…

Kolkata: With a steady reduction in the use of SUP carry-bags across city retail markets, the state pollution control board (PCB) has now trained its lens on other banned items, like polystyrene, popularly known as thermocol — another non-biodegradable item — which takes around 500 years- 1 million years to…

KOLKATA: A 22-year-old app cab driver died when he lost control over his vehicle and rammed into a stationary bus of route 211 parked on Rajarhat Main Road at Langolpota, around 10 kms from Vedic Village on Sunday afternoon. He was returning to his Atghara home after observing Eid at…

KOLKATA: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee had, in the past, recollected her association with Manmatha Nath Nandan Girls’ and Boys’ Primary School. “As a college student, I used to come here to teach in a school where I got Rs 60 per month as salary, which I gave to my mother…

KOLKATA: SSKM Hospital has introduced treatment for trigeminal neuralgia — a facial nerve disorder which causes acute pain with burning sensation in the face and had once afflicted Bollywood star Salman Khan — through radio-frequency ablation procedure.

KOLKATA: The state reported a dip in fresh Covid-19 cases on Sunday. Even as the downslide was by a narrow margin - only six cases - this was the first time the Covid graph saw a drop in a week. The overall positivity rate for the state, however, went up…

KOLKATA: The Bengal government has commenced work on rebuilding a primary school for underprivileged children in Bhowanipore, where a young Mamata Banerjee had taught for a while after her father passed away. The state government, which acquired the plot, has also decided to turn the school into an English-medium Higher…