Every fortnight, scores of madrasas in Bengal have been coming alive amid the lockdown. But those attending the “classes” are not the students but their parents. They are being taught how...

An association of West Bengal Civil Service executive officers has launched a mobile application to address the Covid-19 treatment and logistics needs of the cadres and their families in the wake of a...

Flights will remain suspended at the Calcutta airport on Saturday and the other days Bengal will be under total lockdown, the Centre has decided following a communication from the state government tha...

The new appointees in the Trinamul Congress got to work building bridges with the old incumbents on Friday, trying to minimise the possibility of differences that turn counterproductive for the party,...

Dancer and choreographer Amala Shankar died in her sleep of age-related ailments on Friday. She was 101. The end came at 7.30am at her Kasba home, Udayan Kalakendra, named after her husband, legendar...

A few thousand people from Bengal are living in distress and penury as they have got stuck in Bangladesh where they had gone to visit their relatives in early March but could not return home because o...

The Bengal government will celebrate Independence Day in a truncated manner on the Red Road in Calcutta this year in the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic. “A limited number of guests will be i...

The possibility of free rations is alluring. According to the speech of the chief minister of West Bengal on July 21, that is what the people of the state should look forward to, together with, perhap...

Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday that the chief minister’s grievance redressal cell had addressed 93 percent of 7.89 lakh complaints lodged by common people through various channels over the pa...

A private hospital in the city has promised to return to the family of a Covid-19 patient as much as 76 per cent of the amount charged as “non-medical expenses” that are usually incurred o...