Three fliers from Dubai who had tested positive for the UK strain of the Covid-19 virus on arrival were discharged from the Infectious Diseases and Beleghata General Hospital on Thursday, officials of...

A number of doctors, hospital officials and other healthcare workers have tested positive for Covid-19 even after taking two doses of a vaccine against the disease. However, all of them are either asy...

The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has urged the Bengal government to consider extending the benefit of Employees Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 to casual e...

Superintendent of police (Howrah Rural) Soumya Roy has been transferred by the Election Commission, citing his wife Lovely Moitra’s candidature from Sonarpur (South) Assembly constituency on beh...

Bengal on Wednesday — exactly a year since the first Covid-19 case was detected in the state — reported the sixth consecutive day of rise in the total of active cases, by 30, to 3,188. Th...

Union home minister Amit Shah reportedly pulled up Bengal BJP leaders at a late-night meeting here on Monday over the growing discontent among party workers at the grassroots level over selection of c...

Public health experts have called for stringent adherence to the Covid-19 safety protocols, including wearing masks, maintaining physical distance and sanitising hands regularly, following a fresh ris...

In-person classes in colleges and universities in the state are unlikely to be held in the upcoming semester, to start in April, because of a fresh rise in the number of Covid-19 cases, an official in...

Schools where students will appear in the ICSE and ISC exams will have an additional round of inspection, during which officials will check seating arrangements, sanitisation system and other Covid-19...

The spirit of the farmers’ movement on Delhi borders permeated a wedding over a thousand kilometres away in Galsi, East Burdwan, where a newly married couple decided to urge their 400-odd guests...