The number of active cases in Kolkata has doubled in the last fortnight. While on June 29 the city had 1,772 active cases, on Sunday the number was 3,568. The state has 10,500 active cases a... Read more

Calcutta alone reported 374 new cases, while North 24-Parganas and Howrah recorded 328 and 130 cases, respectively Meghdeep Bhattacharyya: West Bengal reported 1,198 fresh coronavirus cases... Read more

13 deaths and 322 fresh cases reported from Calcutta alone Meghdeep Bhattacharyya: West Bengal on Thursday reported over 1,088 new Covid-19 infections and 27 deaths in the 24-hour window, th... Read more

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took umbrage on Wednesday over the CBSE’s decision to drop topics such as “citizenship”, “federalism” and “part... Read more

The government, however, did not mention how long this lockdown spell will last. A lockdown is currently in force essentially in the containment zones till July 31. Atri Mitra, Kolkata: The... Read more

Mamata Banerjee, however, has not make it clear from where the funds for the scheme would come Pranesh Sarkar: Mamata Banerjee on Monday announced Rs 58,000-crore Jal Swapno project to provi... Read more

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday launched an indigenously developed mobile application “Self-Scan” to help people scan important documents and keep t... Read more

Mamata applauds ‘robust’ economic strategies during the pandemic and Amphan crisis Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday lauded Bengal’s unemployment rate for being... Read more

Kolkata: In the wake of spike in the number of virus cases in the city, the Kolkata airport on Saturday said no flights from six cities shall operate to the capital of West Bengal from July... Read more

Kolkata: The state government is “examining” all possible aspects to bring an end to the stalemate that arose at the Petrapole integrated check post in North 24-Parganas where th... Read more

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday the state government would requisition private buses under the National Disaster Management Act if operators didn’t hit the roads from Wednesda... Read more

Expressing concern, West Bengal wrote to ministry secretary PS Kharola and urged him to consider the concern raised by the state. Fearing that it could lead to further rise in coronavirus ca... Read more

The Centre on Monday issued guidelines for the second of a three-phase plan aimed at lifting restrictions imposed to stop the spread of the coronavirus disease , announcing that educational... Read more

West Bengal on Monday recorded the highest one-day spike in Covid-19 cases with 624 new infections, taking the state’s tally to 17,907, while 14 more people succumbed to the disease ra... Read more

Three associations of tourism stakeholders in Bengal have come up decisions and demands to try and pragmatically revive the sector. Tourism is among the worst-hit sectors in the Covid-19 pan... Read more

In the past two weeks, there were 6,013 new cases, outweighed by 6,247 recoveries By Meghdeep Bhattacharyya in Calcutta: West Bengal on Saturday reported 521 new Covid-19 cases, taking the t... Read more

In Alipurduar town, over 1000 residents in eight of 20 wards have been affected by water-logging Homes and roads were submerged in large parts of Jalpaiguri, Alipurduar and Cooch Behar distr... Read more

By Meghdeep Bhattacharyya in Calcutta: West Bengal on Thursday went past 10,000 recoveries and witnessed the ninth drop in total active Covid-19 cases in the past 12 days. The number of tota... Read more