Subrata Dey

Around 20% of children in urban Bengal are overweight. Many grow up as obese adults due to which they have the risk of developing diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol and coronary artery diseases.

Kendriya Vidyalaya (KV), Borjhar, has been selected for a national-level dance competition to be organized by Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) this month

BHATPARA (North 24-Parganas): One hospital and 138 beds for 4,41,000 people, 32 delivery cases on an average day and over five per cent of the population suffering from leprosy and tuberculosis. This sums up the diseased state of the health care system of this old township. The Bhatpara state general hospital is about the only hope for people here.

A clash between two Trinamool Congress factions left at least five injured, three of them critically, on Friday evening.

The opposition Congress in Tripura on Sunday suffered a jolt as over 500 activists of the party today joined the newly-formed state unit of the Trinamool Congress, party sources said.

A man, believed to be prone to bouts of insanity, kept police and fire services personnel on the tenterhooks for nearly seven hours after he threatened to jump off from the terrace of a four-storey building in Kasba on Friday morning.

Investigation in the crypto currency racket busted in Kolkata by Surat cybercrime sleuths revealed that the key operators have escaped to Bangladesh. The accused from Bangladesh would come to Kolkata and return after a few days, some times as frequently as in 15 days.

Never mind if Santanu Das is pious. He has incurred the wrath of Zeus. And even though it is winter, Subrata Dey is feeling the Heat.

The number of adolescents suffering from Type II or adult diabetes has doubled over the last 10 years and could reach 2% of the city’s under-18 diabetic population by 2023, believe experts.

The sudden demise of the vice-chancellor of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, popularly known as West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT) Ranjan Bandopadhyay in December has left the insitution in a limbo.

A sea of men and women colourfully decked in the red and yellow colours of the two-year-old Tipra Motha party burst into cheers of 'Bubagra (Raja)' as Pradyut Kishore Manikya Debbarman came forth onto a raised platform in a black kurta.

Three of the city’s big-budget Durga Pujas are paying tribute to those who fell in the war against the pandemic — prominent citizens, artists, club functionaries whose decades of association with their respective pujas was abruptly halted by Covid-19.

High-speed internet and easy access to content on smartphones has dealt a killer blow to not only single-screen theatres, but even multiplexes. The rules of the entertainment game have c completely changed, writes Priyanka Dasgupta