The proverbial "joy" is steadily fading away from the faces of lower and middle-class families living in and around the City of Joy as reports of tilting low-budget high-rises continue to trickle in ...

A man who borrowed money to pay his child’s school fees and home’s electricity bill has been arrested for allegedly robbing his creditor’s office on Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road. Two men have been arrested ...

Kolkata: A fire broke out at a slum and auto rickshaw union's office in Joka below a metro viaduct on Diamond Harbour Road on Thursday evening. Two fire tenders brought the blaze under control in ...

Kolkata: Lalbazar has ordered a crackdown on ... Ahead of the Road Safety Week, police plan to visit slums and interact with parents, urging them not to allow their minor wards to race on bikes.

The clinic is part of an outreach programme called — Love Thy Neighbour — by the Institute of Neurosciences Kolkata. “This institute’s neighbourhood is economically marginalised and underprivileged.

Social media influencer has come forward to help a man who claimed his life was "ruined" after he was detained and then ...

Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore, both shaped by their unique cultural sensibilities, offered contrasting paths of ...

A social media influencer has come forward to help a man who claimed his life was “ruined” after he was detained and then released in connection with the knife attack on film star Saif Ali Khan. Saif ...

In 1966, he was an AP bureau chief with a huge territory – India, Pakistan, Afghanistan ... to work there in the slums of Calcutta.” The Indian city was a rough place in the 1960s. “Calcutta is a ...

Jagjit Singh Dallewal has reinforced how a fast unto death can serve as a warning and an appeal to the public and the ...