The Taki municipality on Friday withdrew the ban on traditional boat rides on the Ichhamati river for immersion of idols on Dashami this year. The blanket ban had been announced in view of the raging...

An explosion ripped through a one-storey homeopathic clinic run by the Hetampur gram panchayat in Birbhum district early on Wednesday. Residents of Champanagari village in Dubrajpur block alleged tha...

Around 100 temporary rapid Covid testing centres have come up on national and state highways in Bengal to check if drivers and passengers entering the state are carriers of the pathogen. Sources said...

Birbhum Trinamul chief Anubrata Mondal on Sunday courted controversy yet again. Mondal, speaking at a party meeting in Nalhati, said that a bridge would definitely come up at a village if there was a...

A 26-year-old tribal woman who had been gang-raped in 2014 following a kangaroo court order at her village in Birbhum’s Labhpur, responded to the Hathras atrocity saying she was “painfully...

“All doors were closed from inside and we suspect the killers entered from the terrace,” a police officer said. Shyam Singh, Birbhum police chief, said one person had been detained for in...

Artisans were also offered breakfast and lunch by the panchayat early on Wednesday. Bhadu is a recognised folk tradition in south Bengal. Roaming bands of folk singers perform across villages, the so...

Bengal state government officials held a meeting with representatives of four gram panchayats in Birbhum’s Mohammedbazar on Wednesday to prepare for a survey that would be carried out among land...

Simmering tension on the India-China border in Ladakh has brought into focus a World War-II airfield in Birbhum’s Surichua as the Indian Air Force wants to use it as a permanent base and is in a...

Birbuum district police will host an open online session via Facebook live on Monday evening to raise awareness on police functions and hierarchy, and clear people’s “misconceptions”...