West Bengal

The driver and the cleaner of a truck died in an accident near Baniajhora bridge on NH31C in Alipurduar district on Monday night. Sources said two trucks were bound for Assam when one hit the other i...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Enforcement Directorate to question Trinamul Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Rujira in Calcutta, instead of Delhi, in connection with alleged money...

Residents of a village in Cooch Behar close to the India-Bangladesh border blocked a road in front of the local camp of the Border Security Force (BSF) on Tuesday, demanding that they be allowed to gr...

A division bench of Chief Justice Prakash Shrivastava and Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj of the high court on Tuesday rejected a plea for CBI probe into the Maynaguri molestation-and-suicide, asking state...

Police, he said, are also flying drones over Fulhar and some other rivers which flow through Malda. “A number of vehicles have been seized for carrying sand and soil which were taken out from r...

Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday sent out multiple messages on several aspects to civil and police administrations and to her colleagues in the Trinamul Congress. Although the chief minister sent the messa...

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...