The extent of damage can be assessed only after water levels recede, but preliminary reports suggest the following:
nTens of thousands of mud houses have collapsed because of the inundation
At lea...
By Pranesh Sarkar, Abhijeet Chatterjee
in Calcutta, Durgapur
Activists of Left outfits block rail tracks in Burdwan in support of nationwide strike on Monday called by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha against the three farm laws of the Centre.
The strike, mainly supp...
The CBI on Monday arrested four persons in connection with alleged theft of coal worth hundreds of crores of rupees from Bengal.
This is the first time that the CBI has made arrests in this case. The...
A youth leader of the Trinamul Congress in East Burdwan’s Ausgram was shot dead by four armed men while he was on his way home with his elderly father on Tuesday afternoon.
Sources said Chancha...
The state cabinet on Thursday approved a proposal to frame two policies, one on ethanol and the other on data, in an apparent bid to boost industrialisation in Bengal.
On Wednesday, at an event in Pa...
The Citu will organise an online, global essay competition as part of its upcoming 12th state conference with an aim to get inputs from across the world in drawing up an updated strategy for the trade...
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday expressed pain over the BJP government’s “apathy” towards rising petrol prices and appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene.
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The enforcement branch (EB) of the Asansol-Durgapur police commissionerate on Tuesday night arrested Sujoy Pal, a businessman with alleged links to sand smuggling in West Burdwan.
Police seized over ...
A junior doctor at Burdwan Medical College and Hospital was found lying in a pool of blood early on Wednesday on the ground behind his hostel by friends, who rushed him to the hospital where he died w...
The loss-making state-run power utility, Durgapur Projects Limited (DPL), is working out a “lucrative” voluntary retirement scheme (VRS) for its employees, mostly those above 50, in a bid ...