Travel details: Amta is about 50km/2hr from Kolkata by road. You can also take the train to Amta from Howrah, and then hire a car or a toto from the station to tour the villages. Driving from Kolka...

At the altar, sits an approximately seven-foot-tall idol of Dakshin Rai. It is dressed in a dhoti with a bandhgala style jacket and pair of boots, and several smaller idols of Dakshin Rai are placed a...

Receding storm Sir — In the month of April and May, nor’westers — kalbaishakhis in local parlance — bring relief from the stifling and sultry Calcutta summer. When d...

As of February 2022, restoration work is underway at the site, including the construction of two on-site museums that will house some of the artefacts found here. Witnessing the layer of lime and bric...

By train: Bhalki Machan can be reached by most trains on the Howrah-Asansol route of Eastern Railway. Mankar (11 km away) is the closest station. A rickshaw can be hired from here to reach Bhalki...

A trip to Lamahatta and Darjeeling can be on the cards with Darjeeling being a four-hour drive away, and so can a visit to Sikkim, with Gangtok being about three hours by road. Travel: Kharka is ab...

The Experience Ganges tour can be booked from the WBTDC website  Package with deluxe river-facing rooms costs Rs 8,599 Package with non-river-facing standard rooms costs Rs 7,899   Ra...

Mamata Banerjee will on Thursday virtually inaugurate from Calcutta more cottages at tourism complex Bhorer Alo in Jalpaiguri’s Gajoldoba, which means rooms for those looking forward to a getawa...

The Jalpaiguri district administration has prepared a comprehensive report of prospective circuits of religious tourism that can be introduced in the district and sent it to the state tourism departme...