Kolkata Lockdown

The West Bengal government today announced that the state will go under a near lockdown for two weeks starting tomorrow. Looking to curb the spread of COVID-19 infections, all offices and educational institutions will be shut down.

Durga Puja 2020: In a pandemic year, Durga Puja organizers have chosen the sudden Covid lockdown triggered migrant crisis and the 'coronavirus' as themes for the pandals. Migrants and Covid have emerged as the dominant themes of pandals and decorations in Kolkata and other places.

India is on course to top the world in coronavirus cases, but from Maharashtra's whirring factories to Kolkata's thronging markets, people are back at work -- and eager to forget the pandemic for festival season.

A restaurant in Kolkata is now offering special masks attached with zips to all the visitors so that they can eat without having to take off the mask.

With lockdown in West Bengal extended till September 20, the Kolkata Airport has allowed incoming flights from six cities in a limited manner.

Bengal has extended the coronavirus lockdown in the state to September 20, with a "hard lockdown" scheduled for September 7, 11 and 12

At a slum of about 40 plastic covered shacks next to the tracks of Majerhat Railway Station in Kolkata, 15-year-old Priyanka Khatoon has trouble remembering the name of her school. This isn't surprising as she hasn't been to school since March 25 when the nationwide lockdown was imposed to take on the coronavirus pandemic.

Authorities of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport Tuesday announced that flight operations at the airport will remain suspended on all the revised seven days of total lockdown in West Bengal this month starting from August 5.

No aircrafts would be allowed to fly into or out of the state capital tomorrow and on July 29 as the Kolkata airport would remain closed for all flights on days of hard lockdown to check spread of coronavirus, the Mamata Banerjee-led state government said today.

Actor and Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Dev has offered to help an elderly man, who has been hit hard by the coronavirus lockdown and walks several kilometres every day with the help of his crutches to sell masks and earn a living.

Pinning blame on the ruling dispensation for the rise in COVID-19 cases in West Bengal, the state BJP on Thursday alleged that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee along with other Trinamool Congress (TMC) ministers has violated the lockdown norms, thereby encouraging others to follow suit.

Lockdown in Bengal's containment zones will be continue for seven days and will be extended further if needed, Chief Minister Mamata Banejee said today, after clearing lists redrawn containment zones in state capital Kolkata and its neighbouring Howrah and the north 24 Parganas districts.

Amid a spike in coronavirus cases, Bengal has declared strict lockdown from 5 pm on Thursday in redisgnated and newly expanded containment zones across Kolkata and the rest of the state. Large parts of Kolkata, among the country's worst-hit by the virus, will shut down.

The iconic Indian Coffee House in Kolkata's College Street area - a favourite joint of poets, writers, painters and artists over the years - reopened on Thursday, 103 days after downing its shutters due to the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown.

देश भर में इंधन महंगा होता जा रहा है जबकि डीज़ल की दरें अपने उच्चतम स्तर पर हैं.

The West Bengal government today announced that the state will go under a near lockdown for two weeks starting tomorrow. Looking to curb the spread of COVID-19 infections, all offices and educational institutions will be shut down.

Durga Puja 2020: In a pandemic year, Durga Puja organizers have chosen the sudden Covid lockdown triggered migrant crisis and the 'coronavirus' as themes for the pandals. Migrants and Covid have emerged as the dominant themes of pandals and decorations in Kolkata and other places.

India is on course to top the world in coronavirus cases, but from Maharashtra's whirring factories to Kolkata's thronging markets, people are back at work -- and eager to forget the pandemic for festival season.

A restaurant in Kolkata is now offering special masks attached with zips to all the visitors so that they can eat without having to take off the mask.

With lockdown in West Bengal extended till September 20, the Kolkata Airport has allowed incoming flights from six cities in a limited manner.

Bengal has extended the coronavirus lockdown in the state to September 20, with a "hard lockdown" scheduled for September 7, 11 and 12

At a slum of about 40 plastic covered shacks next to the tracks of Majerhat Railway Station in Kolkata, 15-year-old Priyanka Khatoon has trouble remembering the name of her school. This isn't surprising as she hasn't been to school since March 25 when the nationwide lockdown was imposed to take on the coronavirus pandemic.

Authorities of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport Tuesday announced that flight operations at the airport will remain suspended on all the revised seven days of total lockdown in West Bengal this month starting from August 5.

No aircrafts would be allowed to fly into or out of the state capital tomorrow and on July 29 as the Kolkata airport would remain closed for all flights on days of hard lockdown to check spread of coronavirus, the Mamata Banerjee-led state government said today.

Actor and Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Dev has offered to help an elderly man, who has been hit hard by the coronavirus lockdown and walks several kilometres every day with the help of his crutches to sell masks and earn a living.

Pinning blame on the ruling dispensation for the rise in COVID-19 cases in West Bengal, the state BJP on Thursday alleged that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee along with other Trinamool Congress (TMC) ministers has violated the lockdown norms, thereby encouraging others to follow suit.

Lockdown in Bengal's containment zones will be continue for seven days and will be extended further if needed, Chief Minister Mamata Banejee said today, after clearing lists redrawn containment zones in state capital Kolkata and its neighbouring Howrah and the north 24 Parganas districts.

Amid a spike in coronavirus cases, Bengal has declared strict lockdown from 5 pm on Thursday in redisgnated and newly expanded containment zones across Kolkata and the rest of the state. Large parts of Kolkata, among the country's worst-hit by the virus, will shut down.

The iconic Indian Coffee House in Kolkata's College Street area - a favourite joint of poets, writers, painters and artists over the years - reopened on Thursday, 103 days after downing its shutters due to the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown.

देश भर में इंधन महंगा होता जा रहा है जबकि डीज़ल की दरें अपने उच्चतम स्तर पर हैं.