A senior official of the Union ministry of rural development has sent a letter to the principal secretary of the land and land reforms department of Bengal, asking him to take necessary step...

Bhim Rai, the murder convict who tested Covid-19 positive and fled from an ambulance on August 2 while on way to a hospital in Kalimpong, was nabbed on Thursday evening near the Third Mile area under ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has taken its toll on the toy train services of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, a Unesco-recognised world heritage property.  Since the middle of March this year, train s...

Heavy rain pounded Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri districts since Monday night, triggering landslides in the hills and snapping road and rail connectivity in the Dooars where several rivers and streams swe...

Incessant rains in Darjeeling town bared the threat of landslides posed by dug-up stretches in many roads. These “waterlogged drains” are a reminder of the incomplete Darjeeling drinking ...

The spike in Covid-19 cases across north Bengal has made the administration and civic bodies clamp down lockdown in at least four of eight districts in the region till next Sunday. According to the b...

Residents of the Darjeeling hills rushed to markets on Friday to fill their larders before the start of the eight-day lockdown, but most of them were disappointed. The Gorkhaland Territorial Administ...

Tierpark Berlin, a zoo in the German capital, has much to thank the Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park (PNHZP) of Darjeeling for. The hill zoo had gifted Berlin a pair of red pandas, Joel and Sh...

Heavy monsoon rain in north Bengal made many rivers and streams swell and flood a number of areas. In Malda district, some 300 families were shifted to safer places from the banks of the Mahananda as...

Jatin Chhetri, a 46-year-old policeman from Darjeeling who’s an amateur runner, ran 556.3km over a span of 10 days to win the 10-Day Max Mileage Challenge, an “open category event” w...