As the CPM prepares for its 23rd all-India Congress, the shadow of Bengal looms large over the party in Kerala. In its determination not to repeat the mistakes of the party during its over three-deca...

Besides cash, free electricity is another incentive for the organisers, though they have to submit a security deposit. The state had this year raised Rs 9.36 crore as a security deposit. “If th...

The Bengal irrigation department has submitted project proposals worth Rs 110 crore to the Brahmaputra Board for carrying out flood-protection and anti-erosion works along the banks of five prominent ...

The parliamentary standing committee on home is learnt to have decided to take up border management for closer scrutiny in light of the Narendra Modi government’s recent decision to widen the ju...

The Mamata Banerjee-government is hoping to award the contract to build a deep sea port at Tajpur to an eligible developer by early next year. The West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation, whic...

The West Bengal government has alerted its district administrations, particularly those bordering Bangladesh, against the misuse of social media and circulation of fake news related to the recent spat...

Officials of the West Bengal Council of Yoga and Naturopathy, a branch of the Union Ayush ministry, have requested their central counterpart, the Central Council for Research in Yoga and Naturopathy (...

The Bengal BJP has seized upon the clashes over Durga Puja in Bangladesh, sniffing the odour of a polarising plank ahead of the by-elections in four Assembly seats on October 30. The attempt to fish ...

Bengal on Saturday logged 443 new Covid-19 infections, 501 recoveries and 10 deaths. Active cases fell by 68 to 7,445. Bengal  snapped out of a 97-day streak of constant fall in its active cases...

At least one hospital in Calcutta has seen a sharp rise in admissions of patients suffering from dengue, forcing it to form a separate ward for their treatment. Woodlands Hospital in Alipore had seve...