The state tourism department reopened 10 of its 32 tourist lodges across Bengal. “Ten tourist lodges of our department are open for visitors. Among these, eight are in south Bengal and two in n...

More than 550 hotels in East Midnapore’s Digha will resume operations from Wednesday after remaining closed for more than three months because of the lockdown. Government curbs on going to the ...

Two out of the three most densely packed industrial clusters of Bengal suffered medium to heavy damage as cyclone Amphan pummelled the southern districts of the state, delaying a resumption of busines...

Several districts of Jharkhand are experiencing muggy weather owing to high humidity caused by moisture incursion into the atmosphere, but some relief is on the way.The sweltering heat has upped the d...

Four Trinamul workers from Hooghly’s Khanakul were killed and two injured when the car in which they were travelling to Digha for a vacation collided head-on with a truck on NH41 in East Midnapore�...

Officials of the Digha-Sankarpur Development Authority have decided to conduct “clean-up and awareness” drives along the main beaches of the sea town from Sunday morning. Sources have said several...

Sir — It is heartening that the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation has started the ‘Meal for Plastic’ scheme in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme. The civic body will se...

Violent protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the resultant cancellation of trains have taken a toll on tourism in Bengal, right from the Dooars to Digha.In north Bengal, several touris...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday launched an initiative to transform Digha, a dusty sea town in East Midnapore, into a tourism hotspot-cum-convention centre in Bengal by flagging off the st...

Rains alone do not a Bengal monsoon make. There must be the ilish — or hilsa — on the plate, redolent with its unique goodness. Ilish fried along with its roe and served with the oil it is cooked ...