West Bengal

CBI on Saturday interrogated West Bengal minister Paresh Adhikari for the third consecutive day over his daughter Ankita's "illegal" appointment as a primary school teacher. Calcutta Hi...

Calcutta High Court on Friday ordered the Cooch Behar district inspector of schools to sack Ankita Adhikary, daughter of minister Paresh Chandra Adhikary, as assistant teacher at a government school w...

Five youths hailing from Dhupguri block of Jalpaiguri district have gone missing since Thursday as a slide occurred in a tunnel that was under construction along the Jammu-Kashmir highway. According ...

A majority of members at a Trinamul Congress-run gram panchayat in South 24-Parganas on Friday moved a no-confidence motion against the chief, accusing him of malpractices and anti-people activities. ...

The state administration has launched a first-of-its-kind crackdown on illegal transportation of coal across the state after the chief minister instructed the authorities to ensure that Bengal was not...

The Malda district administration has unearthed embezzlement of around Rs 50 crore under the MGNREGS or the 100-day work scheme. The administration has terminated the services of three employees and ...

Calcutta High Court on Friday upheld the state administrative tribunal’s verdict that Bengal government employees had the right to dearness allowance on a par with that of the staff of the Centr...

The Bengal government on Friday appointed three returning officers and 60 assistant returning officers for elections to the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration. The subdivisional officers of Darjee...

Birbhum district Trinamul Congress chief Anubrata Mondal on Friday evening returned to his district after one-and-a-half months, bringing relief to party workers who had been left rudderless during hi...

Four boys at a village near the India-Bangladesh border in North Dinajpur district were injured after a stun grenade which they found in a field exploded on Friday morning. All of them suffered burn ...