Vistadome ride for Bangladesh deputy high commissioner
GB Today Hasan took the ride from Madarihat to Rajabhatkhawa and appeared enthralled after the travel through the forests with…
West Bengal
Caste census cry in West Bengal
Civil society members seek caste enumeration in forthcoming census Arkamoy Datta Majumdar, Calcutta: Prominent civil society members in…
Fresh erosion gobbles 35 houses in Malda
Over 100 residents have become homeless within a few hours and were shifted to safer places Soumya De…
Silt deposits turn Siliguri taps dry
Since Aug 30, water supply was disrupted at a number of areas in the city Siliguri: Around 10…
West Bengal government to provide free migrant ration under ‘one nation one ration card’ scheme
The state had not joined the programme initially as the CM was reluctant to share biometric details of…
BSF boats for border vigil along Bangladesh border in north Bengal
A number of rivers, including the Teesta, Mahananda, Atrayee and the Punarbhaba, enters Bangladesh from north Bengal Our…
Mamata Banerjee outlines her focus on industrialisation
The CM was in Panagarh to lay the foundation stone of a Rs 1,250-crore polyester film manufacturing factory…
Swollen Mahananda river floods twin municipalities in Malda
In Englishbazar, at least five wards have been flooded by the river that spilled over its right bank…
Covid-19: West Bengal reports 546 new infections, 640 recoveries, 13 deaths
The state now has 2.36 per cent of the national total of active cases, and occupies the seventh…
New Town ‘garbage dumps’ turn into gardens and parks
Hidco, which builds and looks after infrastructure in the township, has built three such parks — one in…
West Bengal logs 650 new Covid-19 cases, 6 fresh fatalities
The state now has 9,070 active cases, while 15,20,055 people have been cured of the disease so far,…
Mamata slams Modi govt as nephew summoned over coal scam
UNB, New delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s…
Alarm over Covid curb flout in Digha hotels
This weekend the destination recorded over 25,000 tourists, well over the average weekend footfall in a regular year…
Heritage tag worry for ‘privatised’ toy train
Set up in 1879, the DHR is the sole heritage property of the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) zone…
Covid: West Bengal govt announces new precautions to rein in possible third wave
Sources at Nabanna and health department stressed on distribution and wearing of face masks Subhasish Chaudhuri, Calcutta: The…
West Bengal irrigation dept asks for detailed project reports on the permanent concrete embankments
The initiative was taken after Mamata directed the department to build permanent dykes and criticised officials for spending…
Covid: 731 new cases, 12 deaths in West Bengal
The total number of active infections in the state fell by 62 to 9,653 on Thursday with a…
Netaji’s kin seeks DNA test of ashes kept at Japan’s Renkoji temple
The freedom fighter’s grandnephew, Surya Kumar Bose has made fresh appeal in a bid to end all speculations…
Alert on the stranded from West Bengal in Afghanistan
The message was sent to the districts after Nabanna came to know that some persons from the state…
I-Day: Vigil upped across West Bengal
Vigil heightened in Red Road area of Calcutta as well as in districts sharing international borders and inter-state…