State-run Volvo buses will now connect Purulia, Jhargram, Farakka and Asansol to Kolkata with most of the buses travelling overnight. Senior officers of the South Bengal State Transport Corporation (...

Two migrant workers sustained serious injuries as they jumped off the Malda bound Farakka Express while it was moving through Malda town on Thursday in a bid to catch a bus for home. Both were rushed...

Five-sixth of the time has elapsed for the treaty between Bangladesh and India on sharing of the waters of the Ganges at Farakka. It will expire on December 12, 2026. The treaty was necessitated by th...

Angry residents of a village in Kaliachak-III block who lost their houses to erosion caused by the Ganga intercepted a vehicle of the Farakka Barrage Project Authority (FBPA) carrying a team of engine...

Former Congress MLA Moinul Haque joined the Trinamul Congress at Jangipur in Murshidabad district on Thursday in the presence of Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee. Haque was a five-time Farakka ML...

Sabina Yeasmin, the minister of state for irrigation, waterways and north Bengal development, on Monday lashed out at the Farakka Barrage Project Authority (FBPA) for its failure to commence anti-eros...

The rising Ganga gobbled up 40 houses in Malda district, including a concrete two-storey sub-health centre at Bhimagram in Kaliachak-III block on Friday night. Many families could salvage nothing but...

Incessant rain on Friday evening led to the sudden erosion of 70 metres of land below the railway line in Murshidabad’s Ahiran village on Saturday around dawn. The stretch from below the Azimga...

Police in Jangipur have decided to prevent children from bathing in local rivers until the monsoon recedes in September to avert any untoward incident. Y. Raghuvamshi, the police chief of Jangipur in...

A ruling TMC MLA in West Bengal filed a police complaint alleging that he was attacked by ‘goons’ associated with a toll plaza run by a central agency in Murshidabad district on Sunday for...