The Latest Breaking News from Kolkata

KOLKATA: Ajay Pratap Singh, the new director-general of the National Library (NL), plans to restore and rejuvenate the National Library’s historic city hub at Esplanade which used to house newspapers and periodicals with IT support; develop repositories of all 22 scheduled languages; and focus on developing virtual environment to provide…

KOLKATA: Lalbazar is set to increase the number of no-honking zones in the city from next week when schools start reopening. Lalbazar has identified school clusters (and not just the gates of the schools) where its special raid section will carry out regular drive against those honking unnecessarily.

KOLKATA: BJP national president J P Nadda, on a two-day tour of West Bengal, is likely to address the state executive of the Bengal unit, which is still facing internal bickering and exodus. He will also address an interaction with city intellectuals as part of his outreach programme.

KOLKATA: The body of Territorial Army (TA) jawan Narayan Chanda, who died during evacuation operations in flood-affected Assam on Saturday, was brought to his Asokenagar home in North 24 Parganas late on Sunday.

KOLKATA: A couple in their 50s were found brutally murdered at their ground-floor apartment on Harish Mukherjee Road in Bhowanipore, south Kolkata, on Monday evening, the sheer violence and impunity of the crime sending shockwaves through the upper middle-class residential neighbourhood.

KOLKATA: The Bengal cabinet on Monday approved a proposal to allot four bicycle manufacturing companies 5 acres each at Vidyasagar industrial park in Kharagpur, said industries minister Partha Chatterjee. The WBIDC park will thus soon become home to a 20-acre cycle hub.

KOLKATA: West Bengal industry minister Partha Chatterjee on Monday said the state government has given its nod to Adani Enterprises for setting up a hyper-scale data centre park at Bengal Silicon Valley in the New Town area on the outskirts of the city.

KOLKATA: Playing the AFC Asian Cup final-round qualifiers at a packed Salt Lake Stadium will be a "big boost" for the Indian football team, feel Pritam Kotal and Subhasish Bose, the Blue Tigers' two local players.

KOLKATA: Officers of Bidhannagar Cyber Crime Police raided the office of JoinUs Techsoft Consultancy Services on the fourth floor of Meridian Building at Sector V on Friday. They found hundreds of young men and womencalling people in UK, USA and Australia on the pretext of giving tech support.

KOLKATA: The Kolkata Traffic Police has suspended 270 licences in May, down from 786 suspensions in March. The total number of suspensions since February stands at a little more than 1,100 in the city.

KOLKATA: Stray Covid cases have been reported in recent weeks though almost all of them have been mild, said CMRI Hospital pulmonology director Raja Dhar. "Other viruses are more common now but Covid persists, albeit in a mild form. These deaths indicate that we need to be on guard, especially…