Love for hilsa is driving residents of Cooch Behar, especially those living in Mathabhanga sub-division of the district, to the Mansai river for the past couple of days. A number of fishermen casting...

A consignment of over 3,000 tonnes of Hilsa from Bangladesh will start reaching Kolkata on Wednesday, a day after the ban on the catching, sale and transportation of the Padma Hilsa ends in the n...

Two persons were killed by lightning in East Midnapore’s Mahisadal early on Wednesday while drawing in their catch of hilsa from the Rupnarayan river. The deceased, Samir Pal, 35 and Biswanath ...

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Border Security Force personnel on Friday evening seized over 250 kilos of hilsa valued at Rs 4.25 lakh that were being smuggled into India from Bangladesh through a riverine border in Murshidabad dis...

The classic Bhapa Ilish is cooked here with mustard paste and curd along with green coriander. Pair the rich and intense gravy with your choice of rice. We relished it with Mughlai Ilish Biryani, pric...

Indiscriminate netting and inadequate rainfall have come in the way of mature hilsa swimming up the Hooghly from the Bay this monsoon, said scientists studying the movement of the fish whose delectabi...

 Monsoon ushers in relief from the hot and humid summers everywhere, and for Bengalis it also brings with it a silver lining on their plates in the form of the delectable Hilsa fish, usually savo...

Rising diesel price and a dip in the hilsa catch for the second year on the trot have left fishermen and the government worried because livelihoods of around 30,000 people are at stake. Because of th...

Kakdwip police jointly with the state fisheries department and a local fishermen’s association arrested the owner of a trawler for “bottom trawling” hilsa spawn, a practice strictly ...