BJP Behrampore candidate Krishna Jowardar Arya has lavished praise on rival and four-term MP Adhir Chowdhury, prompting murmurs within the party of a “got-up game” to help the Congress veteran.Ary...
Even a month ago, Gangadhari village could have been an advertisement for the “remittance economy” model.Today, this settlement of a little over 6,000 people in Nowda bears witness to how fear of ...
A CID team reached Murshidabad’s Jiaganj on Saturday and started probing the triple-murder case even as the district police continued their own investigation, detaining a friend of slain schoolteach...
By Alamgir Hossain and Snehamoy Chakraborty
in Behrampore
Construction of several metalled roads across south Bengal will miss the December 31 deadline set by chief minister Mamata Banerjee as labourers have skipped the work and started search for documents ...
By Snehamoy Chakraborty and Alamgir Hossain
in Bolpur(Birbhum)
Behrampore lynching victim Khabir Sheikh’s widow Aklima Biwi sat downcast on the mud floor of the family’s thatched hut in Sahazadpur village on Thursday, receiving mourners and struggling to beli...
Authorities started screening of migrant workers on Sunday to check for symptoms of Covid-19, particularly in districts like Nadia, Murshidabad and Malda which send a substantial number of people to o...
The Bengal government has decided to prepare a database of migrant labourers so that a health screening can be done when they return home from Covid-19-hit states such as Kerala and Maharashtra.Lakhs ...
The Kulgam carnage in which five labourers were shot dead by suspected militants has prompted some Bengal districts to prepare a database of such migrant workers.The districts that have initiated the ...
By Snehamoy chakraborty and Alamgir Hossain
in Bolpur(Birbhum)