West Bengal

Police in Jangipur have decided to prevent children from bathing in local rivers until the monsoon recedes in September to avert any untoward incident. Y. Raghuvamshi, the police chief of Jangipur in...

Bengal chief secretary H.K. Dwivedi has asked district magistrates to explore new areas from where sand could be mined, an instruction which is a clear attempt to generate more revenue at a time when ...

Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts on Tuesday reported the first confirmed cases of the Delta variant of novel coronavirus. Five Covid-19 positive samples, sent for genome sequencing earlier this mon...

Five persons were arrested from Nimti Jhora tea estate for allegedly running a fake Aadhaar card racket in Alipurduar on Monday evening. Sources said two laptops, a camera, one scanner and some Aadha...

“He (Sharma) is an agent of the state government. He has no political morality. I will send him a book on moral science soon,” Zimba said on Friday and used many words that some described ...

Calcutta High Court on Tuesday held that university authorities had the right to donate funds for relief but not the power to forcibly collect funds from  employees. Justice Amrita Sinha of Calc...

The state government on Tuesday asked the Birbhum land department for an action-taken report on allegations of land-grab through fake deeds, a day after over 100 landowners demonstrated in front of th...

Eleven elected Trinamul members of Daulatnagar panchayat, under Harischandrapur-II block of Malda, were on Tuesday morning allegedly abducted by two party leaders, including panchayat head Najibur Rah...

Bengal on Tuesday logged 662 Covid-19 cases, 10 deaths and 838 recoveries as the state completed 23 consecutive days of logging less than 1,000 infections. The total of active cases fell by 186 to 11,...

The Mamata Banerjee government on Tuesday filed a 95-page affidavit before Calcutta High Court, taking exception to the report submitted by a National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) probe committee to...