Students of a girls’ hostel in Burdwan University spread the message of peace and harmony on Saraswati Puja, with boarders cutting across religions joining the festivities.For this year’s puja, in...

A team of East Burdwan police on Monday arrested a couple on the charge of stealing a baby from Anamoy hospital in Burdwan on Sunday.The search for the missing baby began on Sunday evening when the fa...

A portion between his hip and right knee does not exist since birth, but that did not deter Sagar Chanda from studying and playing cricket with equal passion. Congenital short femur, a rare type of ma...

Three Hindu girls studying in a madarsa in a Muslim-dominated area of East Burdwan have scored over 90 per cent in the West Bengal High Madrasah Secondary Exam (Madhyamik standard), bolstering the Mam...

Sufiya, a long-distance runner from Delhi, reached Burdwan on Friday morning, running through the Golden Quadrilateral highway network to spread the message of amity and fraternity as part of her miss...

District magistrates and other officials have been extensively touring rural areas in Bengal to know about and address the problems of the masses, an exercise launched in June at the directive of chie...

Octogenarian Nirod Baran Sarkar, who authored over 20 books on the history of Burdwan, was on Sunday busy going through old photographs of the railway station taken during the visits of historic figur...

Two Muslim youths in East Burdwan’s Galsi organised and funded the last rites and carried on their shoulders the body of a Hindu woman to the local crematorium, having looked after the cancer patien...

The city is doomed to suffer sultry weather at least till Monday, after which conditions might become favourable for thundershowers.The meteorology department has warned that the western districts of ...

At a time the citizen matrix is facing resistance across the country for its divisive design, a students’ organisation here came up with a special message on Valentine’s Day — let love be the an...