A 53-year-old social worker from Birbhum, who had been to Ayodhya in December 1992 to rebuild communal harmony after the Babri Masjid demolition, has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar ...

First the lockdown ate into his livelihood; now rats have nibbled on the chances of turning around. Haider Ali, a migrant worker from Birbhum who had to sell his wife’s gold earrings and borrow...

Authorities of Birbhum’s Rajnagar block have asked its 80,000-odd residents to inform panchayat or block officials, the police or health workers where they are going and when they will be back b...

Birbhum district administration has ordered a probe into the “conduct” of a doctor of a government hospital who was traceless for hours after he tested positive for Covid-19. After a sear...

Lightning killed at least eight persons, including four women, in Birbhum district on Tuesday evening. Police sources said three persons each were killed in the Bolpur and Suri subdivisions of the di...

Birbhum police on Monday launched a special drive and set targets for each of the 24 police stations in the district to detain people found roaming without masks to spread awareness and check the spik...

A state government team, led by chief secretary Rajiva Sinha, will visit Birbhum’s Deocha on Thursday to meet representatives of residents and convince them to accept the rehabilitation package ...

On a day the Centre released its contentious list that marked 10 Bengal districts in the red zone, Birbhum and Alipurduar lost their green-zone status as seven Covid positive cases were reported from ...

A Bengal company has developed kiosks for collecting swab samples from suspected Covid-19 patients.The company has already supplied four such kiosks to two Birbhum hospitals in Suri and Bolpur and ord...

Doctors and other medical personnel attending to Covid-19 patients in Calcutta will train their counterparts at different hospitals across Birbhum district through video conferencing from Monday. The ...