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As many as 21 districts and a population of over 4.6 lakh have been affected in the ongoing flood in Assam with water entering Dibrugarh town and coming threateningly close to entering the capital cit...

A Jamshedpur-based company has developed a Covid-19 mobile testing laboratory which it claims is the country’s first with fully automated sanitisation and thermal scanning facilities.The mobile lab,...

At least four elderly women were robbed of their gold ornaments in the past 48 hours and police believe two men on a motorcycle wearing masks and posing as cops were involved in the robberies. The tw...

The Church of North India’s Calcutta diocese will start prayer and meditation with a maximum of 25 people at a time at St Paul’s Cathedral and six other churches from Sunday, Reverend Pari...

Several people who arrived in the city from Bangladesh on Saturday played cat and mouse with police at the airport terminal to avoid going to a quarantine facility. A US Bangla Airlines flight with 1...

The high court on Friday stayed the operation of a clause of the West Bengal School Service Commission (Amendment) Act, 2017, which allows the government to transfer state-aided schoolteachers for adm...

The Bengal higher education department has told universities that final-year students will be assessed in their terminal examination by factoring in 80 per cent “on the basis of best aggregate perce...

Human hands and the heavy metal of a crane have together tried to undo nature’s doing on two 200-year-old trees on the western bank of the Hooghly.On the IIEST Shibpur campus, two mahogany trees ove...

The CPM and the Trinamul Congress found in fuel price hike a common reason to pack a punch at the Narendra Modi government for putting further burden on the people who are already reeling from the adv...

The Bengal government has compiled a report suggesting that at least nine districts in the state could have qualified for the Centre’s Rs 50,000 crore scheme to provide jobs to migrant workers who r...