Senior administrative officials posted in at least three districts of north Bengal announced an extension of the ongoing lockdown for up to a week from Monday in the wake of a steady spike in Covid-19...

The number of coronavirus cases continued to climb across north Bengal on Sunday, prompting health officials to make arrangements for more beds at Covid-19 hospitals.According to sources in the Bengal...

Tea industry representatives have requested the Tea Board of India to set up Covid-19 testing centres in the Dooars belt.Tea Association of India secretary (the Dooars branch) R.A. Sharma said they wa...

The North Bengal Medical College & Hospital will admit non-Covid-19 patients but in a restricted manner for some time as around 100 doctors, paramedics and nursing staff are currently quarantined ...

Four doctors at the North Bengal College and Hospital and an equal number of paramedics and a health worker at Chhang’s Super-Specialty Hospital, the private nursing home that was converted into a C...

Laboratories to check Covid-19 swabs in Siliguri and Malda have been lauded for huge number of daily tests they conduct, but both the facilities have backlog of samples because of vast areas they cate...

Darjeeling MP Raju Bista of the BJP has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on “the urgent need to start move Covid testing laboratories” in north Bengal.Bista arrived in his constituency on t...

A 24-year-old youth travelled through forests and tea estates of the Dooars on a motorcycle on Friday to reach a designated Covid hospital here after he tested positive for the novel coronavirus, deci...

The Bengal government on Thursday reported 87 fresh Covid-19 cases over the past 24 hours, eight deaths directly from the pathogen and the hospital discharge of 66 persons that lifted the recovery rat...

A group of migrant workers who had been walking to Assam from Siliguri was provided with ambulances to reach the border by medical officials of Alipurduar 1 block on Monday night.Bhaskar Sen, the bloc...