Kolkata is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River approximately 75 kilometres west of the border with Bangladesh, it is the principal commercial, cultural, and educational centre of East India, while the Port of Kolkata is India's oldest operating port and its sole major riverine port. Read More
Three persons were injured, flight and train services disrupted as large parts of Kolkata and other south Bengal districts submerged in water on Saturday following heavy monsoon rains. ...
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Joint Director involved in the Saradha chit fund scam probe are among 32 CBI officers who have been awarded President's Police Medal and Police Medal on the Independence Day. ...
The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday set aside an arrest warrant issued against West Bengal BJP leader Mukul Roy in connection with a case of cheating and extortion. ...
Nearly a month after a passenger was dragged to his death by Kolkata metro train with his hand stuck between its sliding doors, a girl commuter on Tuesday complained that the metro train she was travelling in, started moving with her shoulder stuck o ...
The body of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker, accused in the murder of a Trinamool Congress activist, was recovered from a canal in Hooghly district's Goghat on Sunday, police said. ...
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has stated that SpiceJet engineer Rohit Pandey, who lost his life while servicing an aircraft at Kolkata airport in the early hours of July 9, was "untrained and working without any supervision". ...
