The Bengal government’s attempt to advance the rural polls, scheduled in the summer of 2023, to December 2022 has hit procedural roadblocks, prompting Nabanna to settle for February 2023. &ldqu...

The Damodar Valley Corporation, a central power utility, may have to surrender the coal block allocated to it at Loba in Birbhum as it is likely to miss the August 8 deadline to launch the project. Ho...

The Bengal government has decided to bring out special infrastructure projects worth Rs 14,000 crore, which were drawn up around four years ago, from the freezer as part of an attempt to create the ri...

This railway overbridge is different from the Chitpore bridge that was built in 1843 and stands over the circular canal. Senior officials in the urban development department said a meeting was recent...

Team reaches cave A team of 13 from Naihati, in North 24-Parganas district, reached the cave shrine on Monday after a four-hour uphill trek from the Panchtarni campsite, a team member said. They had ...

The Bengal government on Saturday organised at Nabanna the state’s first-ever agri-business meet with 220 participants from agro-related businesses, with the objective of exploring opportunities...

Anit Thapa, whose Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM) won the recent Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) Sabha elections, left for Calcutta on Tuesday for a meeting with chief minister...

The Mamata Banerjee government is in a spot over how to clear wage dues of over Rs 3,000 crore under the 100-day rural employment scheme as the Centre is unlikely to meet the state’s demand for ...

The Mishti Hub off National Highway 2 in Bardhaman will soon buzz back to life. Inaugurated in 2017 by chief minister Mamata Banerjee, it has been lying unused for several years. There are 25 shops ...

The recent plan to appoint consultants from the corporate world to make the Bengal government future-ready has run into rough weather apparently owing to resistance from some senior bureaucrats, sourc...