The Latest Breaking News from Kolkata

KOLKATA: Cable operators and internet service providers have kicked off the biggest drive till date to remove the overhead cable clutter across 250km-300km of city roads. In the first phase, the mesh of cables was dressed and redundant cables were removed from 75km-80km of roads while in the second phase,…

KOLKATA: With the rise in the number of flights and passengers at the airport owing to the resumption of international operations and the introduction of summer schedule, violations involving VIP vehicles — an old problem at the airport — is back again. The authorities have designated a free parking zone…

KOLKATA: A 21-year-old pillion rider — a final-year student of a private engineering college at Anandapur — died and the biker, his classmate, was injured when their two-wheeler hit the guard wall of the AJC Bose Road Flyover-Maa Flyover connector in the wee hours of Friday. The accident happened on…

KOLKATA: A 32-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death by three men who dumped his body near a local canal before fleeing the spot.

KOLKATA: The fatal accident on the Maa flyover-AJC Bose Road flyover connector in the wee hours of Friday resulted from the violation of multiple traffic rules by the two students of a private engineering college at Anandapur. However, bikers and motorists are refusing to learn a lesson.

KOLKATA: Around 6 crore individuals in the age group of 18-59 years in Bengal will be eligible for the precautionary third dose which is expected to be rolled out from Sunday. Only those who received their second dose nine months ago will receive the dose now. But those going for…

KOLKATA: Anxiety, confusion, chaos and harassment reigned the first day of post-pandemic reopening of Salt Lake Shiksha Niketan on Friday. It all apparently started with at least two students allegedly going missing only to be found a couple of hours later but while the search was on, none of the…

KOLKATA: Parents and children studying at GD Birla Centre for Education, Ashok Hall Girls’ Higher Secondary School and Mahadevi Birla Shishu Vihar remained on tenterhooks on Friday even as the schools stayed shut for the second day in a row. Sources in the school management, however, said they were hopeful…

KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court on Monday dismissed a Rs 100-crore compensation claim against the Bengal government for vicarious liability, holding it responsible in a case of alleged defamation against a high court judge. “There is no master-servant relationship between the State and a High Court Judge, and accordingly, there is…

KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court handed over the Bogtui upapradhan murder investigation to CBI more than a fortnight after Bhadu Sheikh was killed by motorbike-borne miscreants on March 23.

KOLKATA: The four people arrested from Mumbai in connection with the Birbhum killings were brought back to Kolkata on Friday morning by the CBI, an official said. They were brought back to Kolkata on transit remand, granted by a Mumbai court till April 10, he said.