Students were from 18 schools — all on the forest fringe areas such as Pakhiralaya, Dayapur, Rangabelia and Rajatjubilee — ...

Tens of millions of people are still drinking arsenic-contaminated water 30 years after ‘the greatest mass poisoning in ...

It is considered the second-largest mela in India after Kumbh Mela. The heavy footfall at the mela ground results in soil, air and water pollution every year. Sagar, which is the largest island in the ...

Rising waters and illicit logging are killing the trees in the Sundarbans, the natural wall that protects the India-Bangladesh coast. Tidal surges now isolate parts of Sagar Island, south of ...

Kolkata's air quality significantly improved on the last day of January, with most areas reaching 'satisfactory' AQI levels due to a rise in temperature. Salt Lake saw the best air quality, benefiting ...

Kolkata has become India's most congested city as per the 2024 TomTom Traffic Index, overtaking Bengaluru. The average speed in Kolkata is 17.4 km/h, making a 10 km trip take over 34 minutes ...

A sessions court in Kolkata convicted Sanjay Roy for a life in prison in the rape and murder of a doctor at R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital. The Judge said that it’s not a rarest of the ...

Salanpur: Three labourers died and another was injured after piled-up soil collapsed on them during PHE drinking water pipeline installation work at Dalmia, under Salanpur gram panchayat in West ...

Suman Mukhopadhyay, whose film Putulnacher Itikatha (The Puppet's Tale) is in Big Screen Competition at IFFR, and whose brilliant debut 'Herbert' completes 20 years, talks about what ails & fails ...

In 2023, Kolkata sold 23,030 units, overtaking Chennai, which sold 21,630 units. Sales of affordable homes —those priced at ₹ 40 lakh or less—dropped from 62% in 2020 to 45% in 2024, as per ...

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