West Bengal

Tourists and residents bound for East Midnapore’s Digha on the first day of the Puja were halted on the tracks on Tuesday morning when a freight train overturned near Raghunathbari station and s...

Several Durga Puja committees across Bengal have chosen the theme of Lakshmir Bhandar (Lakshmi’s treasure) — the flagship scheme of the state government that envisages to empower women thr...

The much-awaited meeting involving Gorkha stakeholders and central and Bengal governments was convened in New Delhi on Tuesday but no concrete decision was taken. The Centre had invited the Bengal ch...

Some 36 families in Dhulian, a municipal town in Murshidabad’s Samserganj, turned homeless owing to erosion in the Ganga on Monday. Six houses so far have been swept away by the erosion that st...

Bengal on Monday reported 606 new Covid-19 infections, 597 recoveries and nine deaths, as the number of active cases stayed put at 7,649. This occurred as the number of recoveries and deaths put toge...

Two persons died and five others got injured as two Trinamul factions clashed at Gitaldaha under Dinhata police station of Cooch Behar district on Sunday night. Both had bullet injuries, police said....

A group of Muslim youths at remote Lodda village in Bankura district on Sunday gifted new clothes to around 400 poor Hindu families after they held a survey on how many villagers could not buy any for...

Residents of Suktabari, a tiny village on the outskirts of Cooch Behar town, have been hosting a community Durga Puja for around 55 years now. A homely affair, it doesn’t have the glamour of th...

Angry residents ransacked several vehicles and blocked two service lanes of NH2 in Durgapur town for over three hours after an Asansol-bound Volvo bus knocked down and injured a 19-year-old at 10.30am...

The BJP’s Khardah bypoll candidate, Joy Saha, was allegedly attacked, along with others, by suspected Trinamul supporters during a clash over putting up banners near Girja More in Khardah on Sun...