West Bengal

East Midnapore’s Sutahata police on Wednesday started a probe into alleged misappropriation of Amphan aid by a panchayat pradhan after the block administration lodged an FIR, the first in the di...

The Border Security Force (BSF) for the first time tried to thwart the smuggling of cattle across Bangladesh by pointing out to consumers how the stressed and torturous journey of cattle heads to the ...

The State Administrative Tribunal (SAT) on Wednesday rejected the Bengal state government’s plea to review its earlier directive to pay dearness allowance (DA) to state government employees on a...

The chief minister cited the example of her own neighbourhood to suggest that a properly implemented lockdown could yield results. “In my own neighbourhood, when Toma (Trinamul Congress treasur...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee, whose party is facing people’s ire over alleged graft in the distribution of Amphan relief, on Wednesday blamed the Left Front’s legacy of “theft&rdqu...

A state government team, led by chief secretary Rajiva Sinha, will visit Birbhum’s Deocha on Thursday to meet representatives of residents and convince them to accept the rehabilitation package ...

Bengal on Wednesday smashed the 24-hour record for new Covid-19 cases, with 986 reported till 9am, substantially higher than the 895 reported on Sunday, taking the total cases past 24,000 to 24,823. ...

The district administrations of Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri announced complete lockdown in nine wards of Siliguri for “complete lockdown” from Thursday 5pm. These are wards 2, 4, 5, 28, 37,...

Tension erupted on NH 31C near Banarhat in Jalpaiguri after schoolboy Abhijit Sanyasi, 12, was killed by a pick-up van near Lakhipara tea estate on Wednesday. Furious residents blocked the highway and...

The Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) on Wednesday announced its decision to ban the entry of tourists in the hills till July 31. The GTA had earlier decided to open the hills — close...