The district administration used Kanyashree Day on Friday to ramp up Covid-19 tests among women. The decision to have more Covid tests among women was taken after a survey revealed that the percentag...

Doctors at three hospitals in Purulia and Birbhum districts stood out on Wednesday amid the ceasework by junior doctors at the outpatients’ department at state-run hospitals across Bengal paralysing...

“Ahankarer patan holo (the end of arrogance)” – read about half a dozen posters with photographs of former Purulia Trinamul MP Mriganka Mahato which were found pasted at several places here on S...

Look East (as in cardinal direction, not a government policy): one presiding and four polling officers travel 98 kilometres by road and then walk 6 km uphill to reach the polling booth at Malogam in A...

The heatwave in south Bengal has hit voters and poll staff. Now, even voting machines are vulnerable.In addition to protecting voters and poll officials from the scorcher, the Election Commission is h...

Several unauthorised stone quarries are operating in two blocks of Purulia district close to Jharkhand border, triggering dust and sound pollution and damage to homes. Villagers said a section of loca...

Three successive hauls of explosives in South Bengal in less than a week have raised concerns in civil and police administrations as raids continue in different parts of Birbhum, Bankura, West Burdwan...

Before people’s test, the tech challenge.Political parties in some south Bengal districts are looking for tech-savvy youths to seek the Election Commission’s clearance for rallies and book venues...

Talks between the Congress and the Left Front to finalise seat-sharing in Bengal have it another stumbling block over Purulia, Basirhat and a Lok Sabha seat in north Bengal. While the Forward Bloc is ...

The Bengal government has taken up a project to build dining halls in schools for serving midday meals.Sources in the education department said the move followed complaints about inadequate and unhygi...