The Latest Breaking News from Kolkata

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…

KOLKATA: After enduring losses for two years, some college and university canteens in the city have hiked prices of food items to stay afloat, whereas others have decided to stick to pre-pandemic rates to keep their clientele intact. The price rise at Presidency University canteens - Srishti and Puroshottam -…

KOLKATA: The switch to the centralised admission system to government and government-aided colleges and universities will help resolve a lot of issues hindering the entrance process to undergraduate courses and will introduce transparency, said principals and vice-chancellors. Since the admissions will be conducted through a single portal launched by the…

KOLKATA: In 2021, PM2.5 - the tiniest of pollutants that play havoc with human lives - had for the first time touched the annual national ambient air quality standard of 40 g/m³ (microgram per cubic meter) in Kolkata. Compared to 2018, the dip in PM2.5 was 6.4%, revealed a study…

KOLKATA: A woman from Amdanga in North 24 Parganas succumbed to Covid at the Infectious Diseases Beleghata General Hospital on Saturday, six days after the state had rec-orded its last Covid death on May 29. The 35-year-old wom-an was on ventilation for 13 days at a nursing home in Bag-uiati…

KOLKATA: Singer KK had an underlying heart condition that was aggravated by lack of oxygen on Tuesday evening, which led to a fatal cardiac arrest, the final post-mortem report has said. "It is suggested that death occurred following the effects of hypoxia following Acute Cardiogenic Pulmonary Oedema, caused due to…

KOLKATA: Over 30 men, allegedly owning allegiance to a TMC councillor, attacked the former TMC local ward committee president’s house twice in Kasba on Friday night. The tension continued into the wee hours of Saturday, claimed victim Bapi Dev.

Litigant wants Section 213 of Indian Succession Act, 1925, declared unconstitutional because of discrimination on the basis of religion and geographic location