KOLKATA, 12 JUNE: The Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) is planning to auction around 100 acres of its land in and around Kolkata and is awaiting a nod from the Centre.

New Delhi, June 11: A physicist in Calcutta and a graduate student in Bangalore who jointly simulated the solar interior on computers have discovered that the Sun has a short memory — only about fi

KOLKATA, 11 JUNE: Today the season's death toll due to heatstroke rose higher, with five more dying as a result of persistent high temperature.

DURGAPUR, 6 JUNE: Animals trapped inside a closed factory here must be rescued, former minister and animal rights activist Maneka Gandhi has told the Burdwan district administration.

KOLKATA, 5 JUNE: The first three collection points ever for e-waste were set up in the city today by the environmental group Toxic Link.

Kolkata: The relentless heat killed 67 more people across West Bengal on Tuesday, six of them in Kolkata, pushing up the death toll to 86 in just two days.

KOLKATA, 1 JUNE: The chief minister, Miss Mamata Banerjee, who laid the foundation stone for a tourism project and 15 cyclone shelters at Sagar Island today announced that her government will under

Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will provide a special fund for the development of areas under Joka I and II gram panchayats that have come under its jurisdiction.

KOLKATA, 30 MAY: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has increased its earnings from car parking by Rs 82 lakh in 2011-12.

KOLKATA, 30 MAY: Greenpeace India campaigners ~ some dressed as orangutans ~ staged a protest outside Park Street KFC today against the company's alleged use of products containing timber and palm