South 24-Parganas district administration launched 11 decorated totos to use them as mobile units of Duare Sarkar facilitation counters at Sagar island on Wednesday. Since several areas in Sagar bloc...

The decomposed carcass of an adult wild leopard was recovered from the plantations of Kilkot tea estate, located in the Matialli block of Jalpaiguri district on Monday. Sources said a group of worker...

A butterfly garden was opened at the biodiversity park in Alipurduar district’s Madarihat on Saturday. Surendra Kumar Meena, the district magistrate, inaugurated the garden which consists of bu...

After the incident, a team of foresters went to the spot and installed a cage. On Sunday morning, the workers heard the animal’s growls and found it trapped in the cage. In a similar manner, a...

The state forest department on Thursday will commence estimation of population of tigers — the principal predator — and the herbivores — the prey base of tigers and co-predators like...

Plans to set up a resort at Jungpana tea garden in Kurseong has prised open the land rights issues for tea garden workers in the hills.  Anit Thapa, president of the Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantri...

The management of the Carron tea estate in western Dooars under Jalpaiguri district announced suspension of work in the garden from Friday, citing lawlessness in the tea estate. The decision rendered...

Ribesh Thapa, Deewar Thapa, Amar Nayak and Shivraj Mahali — all associates of Thapa — suffered injuries. When the gunfight had started, Thapa’s wife, Sandhya Tamang, fled the house ...

Three associations of tea planters in the Dooars, which has the highest concentration of tea estates in the north, have ordered all their member gardens to ban workers who have not received both doses...

The tourism industry, which has been forced to walk on eggshells by the Covid-19 pandemic, has been immediately hit by the partial lockdown announced by the Bengal government starting Monday. Cancell...