Kathmandu, Aug. 29 -- The death toll from the devastating flash floods in central Nepal rose to 669 on Saturday as rescue teams continued recovering bodies from the affected areas, while more than 2,4... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and Metro Railway on Saturday launched a joint "special drive" against dengue, beginning at Esplanade Metro station and extending to all metro... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a petition on August 31 seeking a directive to the Centre and others to ensure mandatory and uniform labelling on every dispensing nozzle a... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- State Food and Supplies Minister Ashok Kirtania on Saturday said the state government was committed to rooting out the institutionalised corruption that had allegedly plagued the... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- As part of its wider plan to develop eco-friendly river tourism along the Hooghly, the West Bengal government, for the first time in the country's history, is going to introduce ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- The Coastal and western districts of West Bengal are likely to receive heavy rainfall till August 31 under the influence of a fresh low-pressure area over the northwest Bay of Be... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- BJP has temporarily suspended local leader Sudip Ram for staging a protest by locking the main gate of the Entally police station in Kolkata, sources said. Sudip had earlier bee... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- A political row erupted after the TMC objected to the remarks of Panchayat minister Dilip Ghosh, who allegedly attributed the writing of 'Vande Mataram' to Rabindranath Tagore. T... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- The recovery of three mobile phones, including an iPhone, two Wi-Fi routers, storage devices and Rs 31,000 in cash from the cell of life-term prisoner Aftab Ansari at Presidency ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- State Health Minister Sharadwat Mukherjee clarified that he did not say people need not donate their bodies after death, and he only meant that brain-dead patients who were not d... Read More