KOLKATA: In the past 12 months, the city has lost over 1,000 full-grown trees, around 100 of them uprooted in storms and the rest hacked down to make way for infrastructure projects.

KOLKATA: The dengue onslaught refuses to stop even after claims of combative steps by health officials and civic bodies.

KOLKATA: New Town will get an e-health centre, the first in the city, on Wednesday. A CSR project of Narayana Health (NH), it's being jointly set up by NH and CISCO.

KOLKATA: Though they have earned appreciation from none other than the chief minister Mamata Banerjee for successfully combatting dengue outbreak in Kolkata, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation healt

Kolkata: After Monday's schoolbus accident in New Town, the Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation (Hidco) authorities are planning to install smart poles in the township.

KOLKATA: Heavy rain lashed Kolkata on Wednesday evening, flooding large parts of the city, but it won't be enough provide relief from dengue, fear experts.

KOLKATA: Even as dengue and malaria cases continue to spiral in Kolkata, an 'unclassified fever' is on the prowl as well.

KOLKATA: At a time when the Kolkata Municipal Corporation is struggling to combat outbreak of dengue in the city, scrub typhus, a type of mite-borne infectious disease has kept the civic bosses on

KOLKATA: Dengue deaths in West Bengal since January rose to 17 with medical reports today confirming the recent death of two women due to the vector-borne disease, a senior government official said

Kolkata: With two city students having succumbed to dengue and at least two more testing positive, schools are on high alert.

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