Kolkata metro rail services have been hit after a person allegedly jumped before a running train at Chandni Chowk station.

From silent spectators to vehicles of nostalgia and spaces of human connection — Kolkata’s trams have played many roles ...

Tagore and the tram were born in Calcutta almost around the same time — the poet in 1861 and the latter in 1873 — and they both went on to become synonymous with the city. Today, more than a ...

“Tramjatra helped expose younger people to trams too,” says Shi. One north Kolkata tram route was reopened recently. The West Bengal Transport Corporation also tried to make trams cool again ...

KOLKATA; Remember a close shot of a tram’s trolley pole snug against the overhead line sparking at every joint in the film ‘Mahanagar’. It was the opening shot of the1963 film directed by Satyajit Ray ...

A civil society-driven pan-India expert committee has been formed to find a roadmap for the survival of trams End of days? The plan is to discontinue the 150-year-old tramways in Kolkata. Only the ...

Days after reports about the West Bengal government’s announcement to discontinue Kolkata’s historic trams faced widespread criticism, a senior transport officer on Tuesday clarified that the ...

“The year was 1947, and my grandfather had just migrated from Comilla, Bangladesh. Stepping off the train at Sealdah Station in Calcutta, he was greeted by a sight that was both amusing and ...

The petitioners, led by Pradeep Kakkar, founder-member of People United for Better Living in Calcutta (PUBLIC), raised concerns over the bitumenisation of tram tracks, despite a court order that ...

Mamata Banerjee even wanted to acquire the house in which Tagore had lived for a few months in London in 1912. But neither Tagore nor Ray seem to be enough to save Kolkata’s trams. Tagore wrote a ...

“Tramjatra helped expose younger people to trams too,” says Shi. One north Kolkata tram route was reopened recently. The West Bengal Transport Corporation also tried to make trams cool again with ...