“Only rights can stop the wrong,” reads a poster inside the community centre at the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC) office in Sonagachi, Kolkata, West Bengal’s capital. The poster dates back ...
The ripples of unrest raging across Nepal have travelled nearly 800 km south to Kolkata’s Sonagachi, Asia’s largest red-light district, where Nepali sex workers are unable to get in touch with their ...
KOLKATA: The ripples of unrest raging across Nepal have travelled nearly 800 km south to Kolkata's Sonagachi, Asia's largest red-light district, where Nepalese sex workers are unable to get in touch ...
Kolkata: Call it a puja breather for the New Market hawkers. Two-and-a-half months after a successful joint operation by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation and the police to clear carriageways in and ...
The Kolkata downpour has left a trail of damage at Asia's largest secondhand books market in College Street. Thousands of books damaged by rainwater have been dumped into garbage bins on both sides of ...
Kolkata: A short circuit in the outdoor unit of a split AC, installed at a jewellery shop in New Market, started a fire on Tuesday evening, spreading panic among shoppers. Prompt action by shopkeepers ...
Five people died in rain-related incidents across Kolkata and its suburbs overnight Waterlogging caused traffic, suburban rail, and Metro disruptions in several city areas Homes in low-lying parts of ...
Kolkata rain highlights: Heavy rainfall lasting hours from Monday night to early Tuesday morning inundated large parts of Kolkata, leaving at least ten people dead. The intense downpour brought life ...
A cyclist uses a phone covered in plastic as he wades through a flooded street during heavy rain showers.(AFP) Kolkata is set to receive spells of rainfall over the next few days as a low-pressure ...
Heavy rainfall in Kolkata has triggered severe waterloggin in the city disrupting the durga puja festivities. Metro services on Blue line was also suspended. Heavy rainfall has lashed Kolkata and the ...
Kolkata is reeling from heavy rainfall, leaving large parts of the city waterlogged just days before Durga Puja. The downpour has claimed three lives due to electrocution. The city remains paralysed, ...
Armed men opened fire at a gym in the busy Charu Market area in south Kolkata on Sunday, triggering a panic, police said. The gunmen, wearing raincoats and helmets, arrived on a two-wheeler and barged ...