The Belgadia Palace was built in 1804. The heritage hotel today is owned by the erstwhile royal family of Mayurbhanj. It is easily accessible by road, bus or train. From Kolkata, it is about four hour...

Deficit rainfall this year left drains in rural and semi-urban areas choked, creating a situation that is helping Aedes aegypti mosquitoes breed and increase the number of dengue cases across Bengal. ...

 The National Investigation Agency will probe how huge amounts of explosives reached parts of Mohammad Bazar in Birbhum and Beldanga in Murshidabad. The central agency had recently filed a charg...

A CPM leader from Murshidabad’s Samserganj block was arrested late on Saturday in connection with the injury of Trinamul leader Nasiruddin Ahamad.   Ahamad was part of a survey team led by...

His mother rolls bidis for a living. His father, a poor grocer, died five years ago. But Amin Hossain, 19, from a village in Murshidabad district, has ranked 12,335 in the state in NEET whose results ...

Block officials said sand bags were being placed in the area to thwart further erosion. Most displaced families have been shifted to the Pratapganj Primary School. “Given similar events last y...

Babar Ali, a 29-year-old young man from Murshidabad district in West Bengal, who has taught thousands of children in the past decades...

A large number of teachers has shifted from Murshidabad’s government-aided schools to towns, disrupting the teacher-student ratio at many rural institutions. According to sources, rural-based t...

Manoj (name changed), a cook at a Santiniketan hotel, had to sacrifice his two days’ salary and spend Rs 3,000 for a night’s stay and travel to Berhampore after his son Shyam (name changed...

Three children drowned in a pond at Balumati village near Murshidabad’s Islampur on Sunday afternoon when they were bathing. Riaz Sheikh, 10, Khaled Sheikh, 12 and Wasim Reza, 11, were neighbou...