He was there till Tuesday before the Citizens for Peace and Justice (CJP) helped him secure bail. Nanda Ghosh, the CJP’s Assam chapter in-charge who had accompanied Gangadhar from the northeast...

The Bengal government is contemplating to shift its accounts from some private and public sector undertaking banks as it has been observed that many of them are not participating in the government&rsq...

The construction of an embankment by the Bengal government on Udaipur beach, on the Odisha border of East Midnapore’s Digha, was stalled on Thursday evening by police in the neighbouring state. ...

Stakeholders of the tourism industry in north Bengal have threatened to launch a movement against alleged highhandedness of the Sikkim government over the entry of hundreds of youths who serve in diff...

Bengal on Friday logged 719 new Covid-19 cases, 727 recoveries and nine deaths. Total active Covid-19 cases fell by 17 to 8,008 on Friday, with 89 straight days of a fall. Calcutta logged 138 new in...

A five-member health team from Calcutta reached north Bengal on Friday to check out the health infrastructure available for children in the state-run establishments of the region and to confirm that t...

The state government has decided to throw open the gates of reserve forests to tourists from Friday, causing tourism stakeholders of the Dooars to breathe a sigh of relief. Rajendra Jhakar, chief con...

Hill leaders are raising the pitch for panchayat elections in the region, a demand which could smoothen the path for the state government to hold the rural polls for the first time in two decades. An...

Around 28 per cent of pupils in government-run primary schools in Bengal have got almost disconnected from academic activities, and a balanced diet has become a distant dream for a significant proport...

Gangadhar Pramanik returned to his home in Bengal on Wednesday from a detention camp in Assam, carrying with him a harrowing sneak preview of the probable fate that awaits countless people when citize...