The opening follows Vijay Diwas celebrations to mark the victory of Indian forces over Pakistan troops during the Bangladesh liberation war of 1971 Avijit Sinha, Siliguri: A goods train cros... Read more
District leaders asked to be on alert to BJP functionaries from Assam who would be deputed in north bengal Main Uddin Chisti, Cooch Behar: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee repeated her pledge... Read more
Farmers came from Panskura in Midnapore to Uluberia in Howrah and Gaighata in Bongaon Arkamoy Datta Majumdar, Calcutta: Around 40,000 people, mostly farmers, marched to the Raj Bhavan in Cal... Read more
A day after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged that the BJP is giving money to a party from Hyderabad to divide votes in the ensuing Assembly elections, AIMIM chief Asaduddin... Read more
Written By Pooja Mehta, Edited By Tanweer Azam: West Bengal Chief Secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay and DGP Virendra will not attend the meeting on Monday (December 14) despite summons by Minist... Read more
Airport Authority of India not to renew licence, BJP and Trinamul blame each other Cooch Behar: The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has decided not to renew the licence for the Cooch Behar... Read more
Demand answers. Changing Tagore’s birthplace, smashing Vidyasagar’s statue, wrongly identifying Birsa Munda… this brand of fake politics cannot go on for long Meghdeep Bhattacharyya, Calcutt... Read more
The strike was called to protest the death of a party worker in alleged police firing Our Bureau, Agencies: Activists of the ruling Trinamul Congress and the BJP on Tuesday clashed here over... Read more
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee has claimed that she will not not let BJP make West Bengal a Gujarat. The TMC leader said this while addressing a par... Read more
The West Bengal CM plans to portray the BJP as ‘anti-people’ in her campaign for the upcoming Assembly polls Devadeep Purohit, Midnapore: Mamata Banerjee on Monday said the BJP g... Read more
The state’s recovery rate is at a new high of 93.55, a little behind the national rate of 94.5 per cent. Meghdeep Bhattacharyya, Calcutta: West Bengal on Monday reported 2,231 Covid-19 recov... Read more
She preempted questions on her source of funds and attributed the money she made to royalty earned as the author of over 100 titles Meghdeep Bhattacharyya, Calcutta: Mamata Banerjee on Tuesd... Read more
The state now has a total of over 4.9 lakh infections, which include more than 4.57 lakh recoveries and 8,527 deaths Meghdeep Bhattacharyya, Calcutta: West Bengal on Wednesday reported a dro... Read more
The camps wound up for the day at 4pm, but people in droves queued up till evening Pranesh Sarkar, Calcutta: Around 1.25 lakh people applied for benefits under government schemes at 20,000-o... Read more
‘Why was no audit done’, questions TMC supremo Our Bureau, Calcutta: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday sought to know where the money of the Prime Minister’s Citize... Read more
West Bengal also recorded a drop in its total of active cases for the 35th consecutive day since the end of Durga Puja Meghdeep Bhattacharyya, Calcutta: West Bengal on Monday surpassed 4.5 l... Read more
The authorities’ action came after the workers’ union did not allow employers to ‘downsize’ the workforce Subhasish Chaudhuri, Bhatpara: Around 4,000 workers attached to Re... Read more
Rai is one of the accused named in the coal mine scam being investigated by CBI. He was posted as the Area Security Inspector, Kunustoria, ECL. KOLKATA: Dhananjay Rai, one of the accused in... Read more
Regular power supply was restored to the city’s airport terminal around 3am on Saturday. The terminal remained without regular power for 33 hours after a 33kV power supply line of CESC got s... Read more
In the first phase, around 1.75 acres have been acquired in Pardeonapur-Sovapur area of Kaliachak– III block and another nine acres in Sabdalpur area of the same block Soumya De Sarkar, Mald... Read more