Locket Chatterjee’s final victory margin was over 72,000, but she was jittery even when she was ahead by over 65,000 votes and her supporters had started celebrating. She was convinced only when the...

Four centuries ago, the shores of the river Hugli (or, Hooghly, as it is called now), a branch of the mighty Ganges, had turned into “Little Europe”, attracting maritime traders from as many as fi...

Nearly 40 bighas (10 acres) of agricultural land were lost on Saturday night following erosion of the Hooghly embankment in Nadia’s Santipur, with residents blaming soil excavation by the land mafia...

Swachhta in New India remains a distant dream, no matter what governments might say. The most recent evidence of this were the circumstances that led to the substantial hike in the penalty for litteri...

Even as late as the 1920s, squabbling sisters in households across Bengal were rebuked thus — Gaang-e gaang-e dekha hoy, kintu bon-e bon-e dekha hoy na. Meaning, even rivers meet but not sisters —...

Senior doctors of College of Medicine and JNM Hospital here have decided to set up a parallel outpatient department to examine patients from Monday, but will not issue official prescriptions.Professor...

A Bangladeshi barge ferrying fly ash capsized in the Hooghly after colliding with an Indian port craft in Budge Budge, in South 24-Parganas, on Thursday morning.Calcutta Port Trust officials said MV M...

The body of a BJP booth committee president, who was an accused in the murder of a Trinamul supporter, was found in a canal at Kota village in Hooghly’s Goghat on Sunday morning. The BJP has alleged...

The elderly mother of a BJP worker in Hooghly died under contested circumstances early on Saturday, with the BJP making contradictory claims over an alleged police raid and cops denying having conduct...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday expressed concern at the Centre’s move to dip into the Reserve Bank of India’s reserves and asserted that the economy was in “recession”.Mamata, who c...