A total of about 700 companies of central forces will be deployed in the first phase of Assembly polls in Bengal. According to sources, officials of the districts where the first phase would be held ...

Bengal on Friday logged a rise in its total of active Covid-19 cases, by 23 to 3,133, for the first time since October 26, Vijaya Dashami, after an unbroken 136-day fall.  The state reported 253...

 The East Midnapore district authorities on Thursday sent a preliminary report to Nabanna on the incident that had left Mamata Banerjee injured on Wednesday, suggesting that the door of the Scorp...

The Left Front on Thursday released a draft election manifesto with the aim to reach out to young voters with promises of extensively dealing with their demands of jobs. It is for the first time the ...

If Amit Shah has inside information on bomb-making factories in Bengal, his home ministry does not appear to have been brought up to speed. The Union home minister had said in an interview to a news ...

Mamata Banerjee has chosen Nandigram to launch the second biggest battle of her life, too, taking by the horns the bull of polarisation and daring the proponents of the BJP’s brand of Hindutva t...

An international flier, who reached the city recently, has been found positive for the South African-strain of the coronavirus and three others have tested positive for the UK-strain, senior officials...

The Congress on Tuesday agreed to allot seven seats in south Bengal to Abbas Siddiqui’s Indian Secular Front, but reiterated that it would field candidates in not less than 92 Assembly segments....

The district administration in Jalpaiguri has asked leaders of political parties to submit details of booths they feel should be identified as sensitive and information on areas where they apprehend b...

The Bengal health department has said Covid-19 vaccination for people above 59 and those between 45 and 59 with comorbidities is set to start across the state on Monday. The Co-Win 2 app, the digital...