The Mamata Banerjee government has laid stress on use of “point of sale” machines at all ration shops to ensure that beneficiaries are not deprived of the foodgrain allotted to them after allegati...

The Bengal government has decided not to allow trucks into Burrabazar, eastern India’s largest trading hub, because Covid-19 has rapidly spread in that part of central Calcutta.“Our primary findin...

The Mamata Banerjee government on Wednesday sought to address many of the criticisms and queries raised by the Opposition or citizens on the state’s handling of Covid-19 and the lockdown. At a news ...

The Mamata Banerjee government on Monday cleared the air over Covid-19 figures, explaining problems which had caused confusion and assuring that they had been solved. “In terms of reporting, you hav...

The Mamata Banerjee government said on Sunday evening that Bengal had recorded 41 new Covid-19 cases and two deaths in the past 24 hours.The new figures released by the state government in a bulletin ...

The Mamata Banerjee government late on Saturday evening released Covid-19 figures for the past two days, stating that the number of new cases had gone up by 127 while 60 people had been discharged.The...

The Bengal government on Sunday put the number of active Covid-19 patients at 461 with 38 new positive cases and two more deaths.The death toll from the disease has reached 20 with the two fatalities....

Two inter-ministerial central teams — one in south Bengal and the other in the north of the state — continued with their visits, mostly to markets and containment zones in Calcutta and Howrah and ...

The Mamata Banerjee government on Tuesday put the death toll from Covid-19 at 15 with three more fatalities and the total number of active patients at 274 of whom 29 were new cases. Chief secretary Ra...

Bengal chief secretary Rajiva Sinha on Tuesday said outsiders couldn’t guide the state government on the execution of the lockdown and wondered how central officials could see from “guesthouses an...