Eight people were injured as a fire broke out at a slum in south Kolkata's Beltala area on Monday afternoon, officials said. A fire engine managed to put off the flames in an hour, they said. The ...

Robbers and vandals never suspect what’s inside the ugly, battered five-story building. It blends in with the dangerous slums of Kolkata (the modern name for Calcutta), India, that sprawl all around ...

Residents of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) have criticised a sequence in The Avengers that features the city's slums. In the film, The Hulk's alter ego Dr. Bruce Banner, played by Mark Ruffalo, is seen ...

The Bhowanipore assembly constituency is a stronghold of the ruling-Trinamool Congress (TMC) from where party convenor ...