An engineer and a technician were crushed to death and five workers suffered serious injuries when a girder of the second Farakka bridge under construction collapsed on the right bank of the Ganga in ...

In the 1950s, when Kedarnath Mondal was a student of Class V, a sadhu visited his parents’ house in Malda district, the gateway to north Bengal. Those days it was an accepted thing to wash the feet ...

Human civilization has been known to split hairs over tresses. There are numerous recorded instances of people, especially the young, being in the crosshairs of ageing — balding? — figures of auth...

A purported promise by former president Pranab Mukherjee and his son Abhijit to build a bridge and their alleged failure to deliver have become the talking point among 80,000 voters of Suti in the Jan...

The Farakka police station in Murshidabad has secured third place in a nationwide competition organised by the Union home ministry which picked police stations based on parameters such as cleanliness,...

Indian Railways has started augmenting the infrastructure at Haldibari station in Cooch Behar to resume train services to Chilahati across the Bangladesh border. The border is just 3.5km from Hal...

Many people turned up at Malda Town station for information on their relatives and friends after the New Farakka Express that left the station on Tuesday evening derailed in Uttar Pradesh.None of the ...

The engine and six bogies of a train from Malda derailed after leaving Rae Bareli station in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday morning, killing seven persons and pointing the needle of suspicion at a last-mi...

The raging Ganga has eroded its banks at Hossainpur near here, gobbling up 16 homes and posing threats to 25 other houses. A part of a metalled road running parallel to the riverbank was also eaten up...