West Bengal

The state health directorate issued showcause notices to a doctor and two nurses of Khardah’s Balaram Hospital for dereliction of duty that led to a mix-up of names of two aged Covid patients, w...

A 71-year-old Jagaddhatri Puja committee in Hooghly’s Chandernagore is worshipping a printed image of the idol this year to make it lightweight and ensure fewer people are involved in its immers...

Around 100 workers of a closed tea estate owned by the Duncan-Goenka Group in Alipurduar district and some leaders of the Trinamul-backed tea trade union walked up to the office of the assistant labou...

The Mamata Banerjee government is working on a detailed plan to generate 35 lakh employment opportunities over the next three years with a move by the Trinamul Congress to highlight the thrust on the ...

Nearly 1,000 people from tribal communities in Bankura took out a protest rally here on Sunday against the alleged “undermining” of legendary tribal freedom fighter Birsa Munda by Union ho...

Bengal on Sunday reported a drop in its total active Covid-19 cases for the 27th consecutive day, aided by 3,726 recoveries that outnumbered 3,591 new infections detected, as the recovery rate rose to...

Foresters rescued a male elephant calf that was loitering beside NH31C near here on Sunday morning. Sources said the calf seemed to have separated from the herd.  The calf was spotted by local ...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee will join a videoconference meeting on Tuesday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold with the chief ministers of several states to discuss infrastructure needed fo...

Three East Midnapore policemen, including an assistant sub-inspector, were suspended on Friday after allegedly being caught taking bribes from a truck driver on the Egra-Kharagpur highway during a sur...

A district Trinamul leader in Jalpaiguri associated with the party since its inception in 1998 expressed his displeasure at poll consultant Prashant Kishor and his agency I-PAC and asked if senior lea...