West Bengal

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday directed Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim to rename a road and a park in the city after former president Pranab Mukherjee. Speaking at the inauguration of Chetla Ag...

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will fight for people's right to proper education and health infrastructure, the party's state in-charge, Sanjay Basu, said on Sunday. Basu, talking to reporters aft...

A rail blockade by Kurmis, demanding scheduled caste status, at two stations in Adra and Kharagpur divisions was withdrawn after five days, an official here said. The agitation since Tuesday led to t...

Bengal BJP leaders have trained guns at the South Dinajpur district administration for not allotting a room to actor-politician Mithun Chakraborty at the Balurghat Circuit House, alleging that officia...

Bengal on Saturday reported 314 new Covid-19 infections, 196 recoveries and one death. The state currently has 2,952 active cases, including 104 in hospitals. Covid recovery rate was 98.84 per cent a...

For Jharna Goswami of Nadia’s Chakdah, cricket will never be the same again. Jharna, 70, is the mother of pacer Jhulan Goswami, 39, who wore the Indian cap for a last time on Saturday, ending h...

The Special Task Force (STF) of Bengal arrested a 39-year-old man from Kalimpong for allegedly sending “sensitive information” about army installations in north Bengal to intelligence agen...

A BJP committee that looked into the clash between West Bengal Police and party members during its march to the secretariat, has sought CBI and National Human Rights Commission probes into the violenc...

The Rs 100-crore Jagannath Temple being built by the West Bengal government at the beach town of Digha in Purba Medinipur district will be completed by December 2023, an official said on Saturday. Th...

Four Bangladeshi nationals — all women — were apprehended by troops of the 15 battalion of the Border Security Force(BSF) posted at Pathanpara border outpost in Jalpaiguri district on Frid...