Private hospitals have been asked to keep the state health department updated on the number of patients they are receiving.

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.

“The Centre, the State and the DVC officials can sit together and take a decision on long-term measures”

As many as 239 new dengue cases were reported from different districts of West Bengal in the last 24 hours even as the death toll due to the vector-borne disease remained unchanged at 20, officials

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

There were no reports of any Dengue deaths in the state today even as the number of people infected with the vector-borne disease in West Bengal in the last 24 hours crossed the 2,000 mark with 283