West Bengal

The Alipurduar district administrations has come up with a dedicated website on tourism for travel enthusiasts keen to explore the Dooars and its jungles. The website (www.alipurduartourism.com) is f...

Two tourists were killed when their car crashed into a stationary truck near Contai in East Midnapore on Tuesday. The accident led to a severe traffic disruption on 116B national highway and police h...

The BJP on Tuesday said while it unequivocally condemned the installation of a Mahatma Gandhi look-alike Mahisasura at a Durga Puja pandal in Kolkata, the saffron party claimed that several other puja...

And the food was worth enjoying. Kids were getting their face painted, women were dressed in traditional  Bengali sarees.  Some young girls dressed exactly like Maa Durga, Saraswat...

The Darjeeling administration has given permission to a fair (mela) on the rooftop of a seven-storey parking plaza, raising questions on safety and the logic behind an event at a parking lot during pe...

The Mahishasura resembling Mahatma Gandhi at a Right-wing Hindu outfit’s Durga Puja here got a new look late on Sunday night following public outrage, with spectacles gone and a wig and black mo...

Police on Monday arrested nine CPM activists, including doctor-filmmaker Kamaleswar Mukherjee, and allegedly manhandled veteran advocate Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya from Rashbehari where they had gathe...

Intermittent rainfall coupled with strong winds badly affected the Maha Ashtami mood of various districts of north Bengal on Monday. The sky stayed overcast and rainfall continued through the day in ...

The Aranghata Upendra Memorial Institution in Nadia, which is the only school in the state that officially organises Durga puja on its campus in the School Para area of the township, on Monday felicit...

Not just fun and frolic, Durga Puja in West Bengal is a grand economic affair involving transactions of at least Rs 40,000 crore, creating employment opportunities for around three lakh people, stakeh...