A fire broke out at the Sick Neonatal Care Unit of the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital here on Tuesday early morning, triggering evacuation of 56 infants admitted there. The blaze... Read more

The central varsity has also written to the office of its chancellor seeking central forces to protect the campus, and said it would demand a CBI probe into the vandalism Snehamoy Chakrabort... Read more

The fleet of electric buses of the West Bengal Transport Corporation(WBTC) is to have 50 number of additional buses by end of the present year. Notably, the WBTC is operating 80 such buses a... Read more

Private power utility CESC Ltd, which supplies power to Kolkata and adjoining areas including Howrah, is now all set to send the “modified bill for the month of June” to its cons... Read more

The state’s total cases reached close to 1.2 lakh, of which around 90,000 were recoveries Meghdeep Bhattacharyya: West Bengal on Monday reported 45 deaths from Covid-19 and the highest... Read more

Banerjee was accompanied by Chief Secretary Rajiva Sinha, Home Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay, state police chief Virendra and city police Commissioner Anuj Sharma. PTI: West Bengal Chief Mi... Read more

G.L. Gupta, a joint director in the land resources department of the ministry, has sent a letter to the principal secretary of the land and land reforms department of Bengal Avijit Sinha, Si... Read more

Advisory issued after it was found that patients were dying while on transit to dedicated Covid hospitals Pranesh Sarkar, Calcutta:The Bengal government has asked all hospitals and nursing h... Read more

The total number of patients in the state went past 1.04 lakh, of which over 76,000 were recoveries Meghdeep Bhattacharyya, Calcutta: West Bengal on Wednesday reported 2,936 new Covid-19 cas... Read more

Kolkata: For the second day in a row, West Bengal has recorded over 3,000 recoveries in a single day count on Tuesday. Total 3067 COVID-19 infected people have been released on Tuesday after... Read more

The residents, who live in 94 houses that comprise the small village, do not allow outsiders although the place used to be one of the most popular tourist spots in the region till the Covid-... Read more

The state on Saturday crossed 25,000 in total active Covid-19 cases Meghdeep Bhattacharyya:- Bengal on Saturday reported 2,949 new Covid-19 cases and 51 more deaths, on one hand, and 2,064 r... Read more

2,399 people are seeking to return to Bengal through the Petrapole-Benapole integrated checkpost Pranesh Sarkar, Calcutta:- The Centre has repeated its request to the Bengal government to le... Read more

Snehamoy Chakraborty: Rabindranath Tagore could not have imagined that people someday could hope that his bust would protect them from possible eviction by Visva-Bharati authorities. Traders... Read more

It is one of the youngest laboratories where 96,202 samples has been examined so far in rRT-PCR method Binita Paul:- The Viral Research Diagnostic Laboratory (VRDL) of the North Bengal Medic... Read more

State’s tally of active patients is 24,652, while the total death toll is 1,954 Meghdeep Bhattacharyya:- Bengal on Friday logged 2,912 Covid-19 cases and 52 deaths from the disease as... Read more

District administration to impose shutdowns on August 13 and 14 in some specific areas Subhasish Chaudhuri:- Nadia district administration on Friday revoked its decision for a weeklong compr... Read more

The West Bengal government has decided to scale down the celebrations this Independence Day because of the Covid-19 pandemic, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said at Nabanna on Thursday. “Onl... Read more

With highest intra-day spike, chief secretary Rajiva Sinha said state had achieved the target of taking number of tests from around 10,000 a day to 25,000 Meghdeep Bhattacharyya:- The Bengal... Read more