Quick facts:  Massanjore is 270 km from Kolkata, 70 km from Bolpur and 32 km from Dumka. Buses plying between Siuri and Dumka pass through Massanjore. The Massanjore Dam, built in the 1950s w...

The district administration and police in Birbhum on Tuesday directed all hotel and resorts owners in and around Santiniketan not to allow bookings in their properties till January 15 in the wake of a...

A delegation of political parties, people’s outfits and intellectuals from Calcutta will meet Birbhum district magistrate on January 6 asking forcible acquisition of land for the proposed Deocha...

The Visva-Bharati authorities have stepped away from Santiniketan’s tradition of Pous Mela this year, but an alternative fair bearing the same name will be held in Bolpur from Thursday with the ...

A group of parents with children with autism have taken an initiative to start a residential facility for individuals with autism and their families. There is a demand for such a facility from p...

A section of higher secondary examinees of Bolpur Girls’ High School on Wednesday agitated on the school campus for over three hours demanding that exams —scheduled from December 13 &mdash...

The CPM in East Burdwan’s Khandaghosh is striving to go back to the basics and revive its connect with people through the jatra. The folk form is a huge draw among people, mostly farmers in a d...

he Bolpur Byabasayee Sangha — a traders’ association of Bolpur and Santiniketan — on Monday requested in writing the Santiniketan Trust and the registrar of Visva-Bharati to organise...

The CPM on Tuesday took out protest rallies across Birbhum and demonstrated in front of at least 10 police stations against the murder of their elderly party worker who was beaten allegedly by Trinamu...

Tribal villager Bibhishan Hansda, 48, who had hosted Union home minister Amit Shah’s lunch at his home in Bankura on November 5 last year, on Saturday accused the BJP of reneging on its promise ...