Residents of Laltongbusty, a tiny hamlet located on the lap of the Teesta and adjacent to the Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary, are set to receive electricity for the first time. The West Bengal State El...

“Altogether, these are some places which can draw tourists. If we can promote the city as a destination with varied options for entertainment, it would also give a boost to the tourism sector th...

State tourism minister Gautam Deb on Thursday hit out at his cabinet colleague Rabindranath Ghosh, heading the north Bengal development department (NBDD), for the alleged lack of infrastructure develo...

Taxi owners and drivers of Bagdogra and Siliguri, planning a strike earlier this week to demand revised fares, among others, decided to defer it for a fortnight after talks with state tourism minister...

State tourism minister Gautam Deb on Monday alleged that it was because of the Centre that the Bagdogra airport’s expansion was delayed and traffic snarls along a stretch of NH31 near Darjeeling...

Trinamul’s Gautam Deb and CPM’s Asok Bhattacharya, two prominent political faces of north Bengal, had a busy Sunday. State tourism minister Deb played the development card to drum up supp...

Ranjan Sarkar, Trinamul Darjeeling district committee chief (plains), on Sunday visited the home of CPM’s Siliguri MLA Asok Bhattacharya in ward 20 of the SMC to hand over the state government&r...

State tourism minister and Trinamul leader Gautam Deb on Thursday urged chief minister Mamata Banerjee to form a full-fledged district committee of Trinamul’s Darjeeling (plains) district unit. ...

State tourism minister Gautam Deb visited the state–run motel, Pather Sathi, located at Fulbari on Siliguri’s southern tip which was allegedly ransacked by BJP supporters during the party&...

CPM MLA Asok Bhattacharya, also the immediate past mayor of the Left-run board of Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) who chairs the board of administrators of the civic body, has invited three minis...