West Bengal

The foundation stone-laying ceremony of a Rs 80-crore bus stand to be built jointly by Haldia Refinery and the Indian Oil Corporation here was marred a few hours prior to the event purportedly by a fa...

A gang of seven armed robbers raided a nationalised bank in the heart of Burdwan town and looted around Rs 34 lakh from the vault while holding employees and customers at gunpoint on Friday morning. ...

There was a chill feel in the adjoining plains as well. Sources at the Gangtok centre of the India Meteorological Department said there might be fresh rain and snowfall in Sikkim and the neighbouring...

Visva-Bharati on Friday evening organised a lecture by Rajya Sabha member Vinay Sahasrabuddhe and invited fresh criticism from teachers and students, who charged vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty wit...

The Mamata Banerjee government has identified Bhangar 2 block in South 24-Parganas as the location to set up the second airport of Calcutta after the Centre rejected the state’s proposal to decl...

Backend blues It isn’t just the political parties who are having a tough time gearing up for the elections. Spare a thought for the officials in the Bidhannagar Sub-divisional Office. “Se...

Point counterpoint Both candidates admit that a clash between Front partners was not desirable but have different points of view. “CPI used to contest in Ward 16 in Rajarhat. This time possibly...

At 87, Manik Ranjan Chakraborty is possibly the oldest campaigner on the streets across all parties in this civic election. “My official age is 83. Char bochhor jol meshano achhe,” he grin...

Maverick TMC MLA Madan Mitra, who is popular among a cross section of netizens for his regular Facebook live shows, has announced on the networking site that he would be deactivating his profile for f...

North Bengal reported 2,210 fresh Covid-19 cases on Thursday. Among the districts, the highest number of cases have been reported in Malda (480), followed by Jalpaiguri (468) and Darjeeling (386) dis...