Infighting within Trinamul in Cooch Behar took a new turn with party leaders close to district party chief Partha Pratim Roy slamming party colleagues critical of Roy and demanding stringent steps aga...
The Trinamul Congress and the BJP have pointed fingers at each other over a stark contrast in air connectivity in districts on the Bengal-Assam border.
While the longstanding demand of residents to r...
By Avijit Sinha, Main Uddin Chisti in Siliguri, Cooch Behar
A bullet hit Altaf Ali, a vegetable vendor of Okrabari under Dinhata-I block of Cooch Behar, on his right hand when he chanced to come between two warring Trinamul groups late on Friday evening.
Sour...
Former Bangladeshi citizens, whose enclaves were incorporated in India in 2015 and who became Indians, have written to the Bengal government to allow them to change the name of their father in the tea...
The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has decided not to renew the licence for the Cooch Behar airport from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), leading to a fresh controversy in th...
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee was due to give an interview to the Oxford Union Society at 5pm (10.30pm IST) on Wednesday but the event did not take place.
A spokesman for the Oxford Union Society, w...
The Covid-19 pandemic that has curtailed some major festivities of Bengal has also cancelled this year’s Raas Mela in Cooch Behar, an annual event with a 200-year-old tradition and one of the la...
Mihir Goswami, the Trinamul MLA of Cooch Behar (South), said on Thursday that he had decided to sever ties with the party.
Goswami, who has been vocal against Trinamul and its leaders for the past on...
The Tufanganj subdivision of the Cooch Behar district has been rocked by clashes between two groups of the Trinamul Congress.
The violence that is the fallout of an alleged attempt to gain control of...
A new sight — that of a lush green tea plantation — greets people at Bajejama Pakhihaga village of Cooch Behar these days.
So far, the village under Matalhat panchayat of Dinhata never ha...