Low bonus hits paddy purchase target: West Bengal fails to procure 65 lakh tonnes in Kharif season
GB Today – According to the latest report, the state could buy only 39.09 lakh tons of paddy, about 60…
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Calcutta Hospital sets a new standard in healthcare with ‘smart ICU’ technology for critical care
– HP Ghosh Hospital in Salt Lake launches the first Smart ICU in Eastern India, promising improved patient…
Heavy snowfall in West Bengal’s highest point Sandakphu; stranded tourists evacuated
– At least 40 tourists, including children, who got stranded at various homestays and hotels in Sandakphu due…
Tourism department of Gorkhaland Territorial Administration resumes rafting on Teesta river
– Since October 4 last year, when a flash flood had occurred in the river, rafting, a popular…
Last journey scripts amity in age of enmity: Muslim villagers give a send-off to Hindu neighbour
‘The Mandals were the only exception in this Muslim-majority village. But we never made them feel isolated. Our…
Activist groups reach out to Matua community in Bengal to explain to them about CAA ‘trap’
Members of groups, under banner of Joint Forum Against NRC, held meeting at Academy of Fine Arts and…
Underwater metro in Calcutta records over 70,000 passengers on first day
Commercial operation on the stretch started on March 15 after PM Modi inaugurated it on March 6 West…
District magistrates should be given power to grant citizenship: CM Mamata
‘The CAA is related to the NRC and will not let the BJP succeed in its ill intentions.…
CAA linked to NRC, won’t allow detention camps in Bengal: Mamata
The TMC supremo also claimed that the CAA is a ‘political gimmick’ ahead of Lok Sabha polls West…
Fresh protests rock Sandeshkhali, West Bengal DGP rushes to spot, pledges stern action against culprits
On Friday morning, enraged locals set fire to properties belonging to TMC leaders accused of sexual abuse of…
This day from Kolkata’s past, February 23 , 1952
On this day, Shaheed Minar, a martyrs’ monument, was built in Dhaka to honour those killed in the…
6-ft cannon shifted from Camac Street: Gun with ‘Portuguese link’ to be restored
The building on 7 Camac Street it was lifted from once belonged to Sir Rajendra Nath Mookerjee, one…
Mamata Banerjee keeps up heat on ‘Khalistan’, says ‘we love all religions’
‘We love all religions. Just because a Punjabi is turban-clad, you will call him Khalistani?’ Meghdeep Bhattacharyya, Calcutta:…
West Bengal govt to introduce standard operating procedures on tea garden closure
Sources in the government said the SOPs are almost ready and will be introduced ahead of the Lok…
Mamata announces transfer of funds to bank accounts of 21 lakh unpaid MGNREGA workers in Bengal
We do not want to beg to BJP nor do we want BJP’s alms. By February 21, we…
Poor phone network at Calcutta airport
The one-time password for accessing Wi-Fi is only sent to mobile phone numbers registered in India Sanjay Mandal,…
Mamata Banerjee holds Narendra Modi, CAG responsible for pause on flow of funds to West Bengal
CM begins 48-hour dharna against Centre for its allegedly step-motherly treatment Pranesh Sarkar, Calcutta: Mamata Banerjee on Friday…
Women commission stall in book fair in Calcutta receives 30 complaints related to domestic abuse
Forms were kept the the West Bengal Commission of Women stall to enable women visiting the book fair…
Will not allow CAA implementation in Bengal as long as I am alive: Mamata Banerjee
Expressing alarm over reports of the Border Security Force (BSF) allegedly issuing separate identity cards to residents in…
Indian army holds ‘Exercise Devil Strike,’ a large-scale air exercise in north Bengal
Exercise held between January 22 and 27, was planned to practise entire spectrum of operations carried out by…