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

West Bengal daily Anandabazar Patrika has sought unconditional apology for using the word “khairati” in a recent report after China had granted more Bangladeshi products duty fre... Read more

By Pranesh Sarkar and Snehamoy Chakraborty in Calcutta: Over 5.9 lakh people have registered their names for the 100-day work scheme in Bengal over the past 75 days. Such a huge number being... Read more

NH12 & NH27 a bane for ordinary residents & mango merchants alike By TT Bureau in Siliguri: Two major highways in north Bengal, NH12 and NH27, are virtually in tatters, with resident... Read more