Siliguri hospital fire sparks infants’ shift
GB Today A fire broke out at the Sick Neonatal Care Unit of the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital…
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Visva-Bharati names & blames TMC ‘vandals’
The central varsity has also written to the office of its chancellor seeking central forces to protect the…
WBTC to procure 50 electric buses
The fleet of electric buses of the West Bengal Transport Corporation(WBTC) is to have 50 number of additional…
CESC to send modified bill for June this week
Private power utility CESC Ltd, which supplies power to Kolkata and adjoining areas including Howrah, is now all…
West Bengal reports 45 deaths and 3,080 infections in a day
The state’s total cases reached close to 1.2 lakh, of which around 90,000 were recoveries Meghdeep Bhattacharyya: West…
Mamata pays visit to Governor on I-Day; Dhankar flays her for skipping ‘At Home’ function
Banerjee was accompanied by Chief Secretary Rajiva Sinha, Home Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay, state police chief Virendra and city…
Centre push for Bengal on to confer land rights Darjeeling hills residents
G.L. Gupta, a joint director in the land resources department of the ministry, has sent a letter to…
West Bengal govt asks all hospitals to transfer Covid patients only after condition stabilises
Advisory issued after it was found that patients were dying while on transit to dedicated Covid hospitals Pranesh…
2,936 new Covid cases and 54 deaths
The total number of patients in the state went past 1.04 lakh, of which over 76,000 were recoveries…
Record discharge for second day in a row in Bengal; Mamata enquires about appropriate COVID-19 vaccine from PM
Kolkata: For the second day in a row, West Bengal has recorded over 3,000 recoveries in a single…
Small West Bengal village has remained under lockdown since March 22. It is Covid-19 free
The residents, who live in 94 houses that comprise the small village, do not allow outsiders although the…
51 fresh deaths take total toll past 2,000
The state on Saturday crossed 25,000 in total active Covid-19 cases Meghdeep Bhattacharyya:- Bengal on Saturday reported 2,949…
Centre plea for those stranded in Bangladesh
2,399 people are seeking to return to Bengal through the Petrapole-Benapole integrated checkpost Pranesh Sarkar, Calcutta:- The Centre…
Traders use Tagore as eviction shield
Snehamoy Chakraborty: Rabindranath Tagore could not have imagined that people someday could hope that his bust would protect…
Lab in Siliguri tops West Bengal in Covid test tally
It is one of the youngest laboratories where 96,202 samples has been examined so far in rRT-PCR method…
West Bengal logs 2,912 Covid cases and 52 deaths in a day
State’s tally of active patients is 24,652, while the total death toll is 1,954 Meghdeep Bhattacharyya:- Bengal on…
Weeklong lockdown in Nadia called off
District administration to impose shutdowns on August 13 and 14 in some specific areas Subhasish Chaudhuri:- Nadia district…
Bengali rider for forest jobs binned
Applicants can select any official languages in the state for evaluation purpose Avijit Sinha:- The Bengal forest department…
Mamata opts for low-key Independence Day celebrations
The West Bengal government has decided to scale down the celebrations this Independence Day because of the Covid-19…
West Bengal government seeks to calm nerves amid Covid spike
With highest intra-day spike, chief secretary Rajiva Sinha said state had achieved the target of taking number of…