The Bengal government on Friday issued a 90-day ban on eight fishing boats registered in South 24-Parganas for violating the mandatory annual embargo on deep marine fishing in the Bay of Bengal. This...

“We have received the consent of the guardians but we will take the rowers to Jagatpur only after receiving a written clearance from the Kolkata chapter of the Sports Authority of India about th...

Rowing in the Rabindra Sarobar in south Kolkata, where two teenage rowers drowned during a storm last Saturday, will be suspended till police draw up a standard operating procedure in consultation wit...

“We don’t have a direct channel of communication with the Met office. But from what I have gathered, the two children entered the lake when the sky was clear,” said Debabrata Dutta, ...

“I’ve never had a permanent job. I still survive on the contractual remuneration I receive from various government institutes where I work as research fellow. But during lockdown, I h...

Twenty one persons were feared killed owing to drowning in river Barakar between Barbendia in Nirsa block of Dhanbad and Shyampore Birgaon of Jamtara district on Thursday. The tragedy took place...

A boat containing Covid-19 vaccines reached remote islands of the Sunderbans on Monday where most residents are yet to be inoculated because of lack of awareness, shortage of doses and absence of Net ...

Cyclone Yaas, which lashed the coastal districts of the state on May 26, has dealt a severe blow to fishermen in East Midnapore and South 24-Parganas as only 40 per cent of trawlers could venture out ...

The Indian Coast Guard has spotted at least 12 fishing boats and six merchant vessels that are yet to move ashore. Officers said the boats and the vessels were between Fraserganj and Haldia. Aircraft...

In Nadia's Hogolberia, a third-year BA student, Bibhash Das, 20, drowned in a pond when Durga idol apparently fell on him during immersion on Monday evening. The body of Bibhash Das, 20, was recov...