West Bengal

Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar on Monday stalled appointments of four mandal presidents at Haldia and Moyna in East Midnapore, shortly after their names were announced. The unexpected diktat promp...

Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday asked the departments that execute development projects in the state — collectively called works departments — to set up a “crisis management fund” a...

Advocate general S.N. Mukherjee told Calcutta High Court on Tuesday that Anis Khan had fallen to his death from the terrace of his house when police had raided the Leftist student leader’s resid...

Demolition of one of the buildings that developed cracks during tunneling work of the East West Metro corridor at Bowbazar is underway, a senior official said on Tuesday. "Demolition work of bui...

The Supreme Court Tuesday stayed the Delhi High Court order, which had dismissed the pleas filed by TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Rujira Banerjee seeking quashing of summons issued to them in ...

Actress Kareena Kapoor Khan has made Neena Pradhan of Kalimpong an instant social media celebrity. Neena’s Kitchen, a simple specialty inn and kitchen in the hill town, is now known to over 9 m...

The Trinamul Congress on Monday warned its trade union against extorting money from factories at Haldia in East Midnapore in the name of a public meeting which will be addressed by the party’s g...

The weight of central assignments is proving tough to execute for the BJP’s state unit as party leaders in Bengal continue to struggle to get the organisation up and working in the wake of elect...

The standing committee of the Eastern Zonal Council, a committee under the Union home ministry that met recently to discuss issues of eastern states, has requested the Centre to direct nationalised ba...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has summoned Trinamul MLA from Beleghata Paresh Pal for a round of questioning on Wednesday in connection with its ongoing probe into the alleged murder of BJ...