Nearly two tonnes of hilsa valued over Rs 20 lakh were burnt to ashes in a fire at a godown inside Digha’s Matsya Nilam Kendra market. The fire reportedly started around midnight from cigarette...

The Digha Sankarpur Development Authority has decided to shift the site for the proposed 214ft-high Jagannath Temple further away from the sea because of the experience of Cyclone Amphan that caused h...

Two tourists from Calcutta were killed when a dumper truck rammed into their bike head-on while the duo were returning home from the seaside destination of Digha late on Thursday night. A fire broke ...

A five-day bar on sea bathing as a precaution against the rough sea has been clamped in East Midnapore’s Digha where tourist rush has given lockdown-weary hoteliers a reason to smile. The ...

Nearly 500 residents, mostly fishermen, in East Midnapore’s Sankarpur have joined hands to temporarily repair a 1km stretch of an embankment that was damaged over a week ago by incessant rain an...

The Bengal cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal by Reliance Jio to set up a cable landing station in Digha at an investment of Rs 1,000 crore. The project, once implemented, will create the neces...

A big part of the road connecting to a 10-acre recreational park, part of the Digha convention centre inaugurated by Mamata Banerjee last December, was severely damaged by strong tidal waves over Thur...

Hoteliers in East Midnapore’s Digha and Mandarmani have a reason to smile after almost six months as tourists are back in decent numbers at the sea resorts to celebrate Independence Day. The ou...

East Midnapore’s Digha recorded its first Covid-19 cases in the past few days, bringing the tourist town’s clean record to an end and threatening to cripple the hospitality sector for long...

Renewed lockdown in containment zones across Bengal starting July 9 has put the tourism industry in East Midnapore’s Digha and Mandarmani on the backfoot again, following a full-scale reopening ...