An 18-wheel trailer truck carrying a heavy container rolled down the sloping ramp of Vidyasagar Setu in Howrah’s Mandirtala when the driver stopped to ask a passer-by directions to Liluah after he had ...

A man riding a scooter was crushed to death on Vidyasagar Setu by a rogue truck that came from behind, hit him and fled, leaving the man to die, early on Friday. Manoj Shaw, 46, was riding pillion on ...

Kolkata: After Howrah bridge and Vidyasagar Setu, Kolkata can now look forward to a new landmark on the Hooghly riverside: a colossal Ferris wheel, much like the London Eye overlooking the Thames.

Around an hour before, another biker, Soumik Ghosh (30) from Howrah, skidded on Vidyasagar Setu. He was admitted to SSKM Hospital with injuries to his right leg.

The beautifully lit Vidyasagar Setu in the background makes it even more picturesque. Tucked away in North Kolkata, Marble Palace is one of the city's best-kept secrets. This 19th-century mansion ...

A man suspected to be behind a digital arrest scam, where a city doctor was held hostage over the phone for three days and then cheated out of ₹80 lakh, has been arrested. According to police, a group ...

A Class I child told his friend that he went to Singapore for a holiday and not to a desert city in the country like his friend. A girl in the primary section was made fun of because she brought rice, ...

Jadavpur University student Souptik Chanda, who was arrested last week in connection with arson and vandalism on the campus hours after education minis- ter Bratya Basu’s visit on March 1, was granted ...

Hundreds of Jadavpur University students marched on a stretch of south Calcutta on Monday in protest against the "heinous attack" on a student who allegedly came under the wheels of education minister ...

The high court issued an interim order on Tuesday asking the officer-in-charge of Girish Park police station to take steps so the authorised vice-chancellor and registrar of Rabindra Bharati ...

Howrah's solid waste will now be dumped in Calcutta's Dhapa and in Hooghly's Baidyabati to stop the piling at the saturated Belgachhia waste disposal ground, which needs to be cleared immediately.

Water supply to large parts of Howrah was severely affected from Thursday morning till Friday evening after a supply line from the Puddapukur water treatment plant was damaged. Almost all the 50 wards ...