Forest officials fitted a tracking collar on a leopard and released it in the South Rydak Range of the Buxa Tiger Reserve (BTR) in Alipurduar district today. It is learnt that the leopard, which had been spreading terror among ...

BJP state president and MP Dilip Ghosh today said that the Trinamul Congress has become a symbol of lawlessness and corruption. Addressing a gathering at Jyotbhim near Bhangor this morning, where he was allegedly attacked two days ago, he ...

West Bengal reported 743 new Covid cases today marking a new single day record for the state, increasing the state"™s total Covid caseload to 21,231, while 19 deaths were recorded, which too is the highest daily toll since the ...

In the ‘Bhatir Desh’ or ‘tide country’, a term attributed to the Sunderbans , resident Subhas Chandra Acharya feels that government needs to put more focus on strengthening the embankments that will stop the inflow of water every time ...

The state government today warned of penal action for not wearing masks in public while West Bengal today recorded the highest number of deaths so far due to Covid and a steady spike in fresh cases as the total ...

The Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port (SMP), Kolkata, today introduced a new service between Kolkata Dock System (KDS) and Chattogram (Chittagong)Port, Bangladesh, through Indo-Bangladesh Protocol Route. The Kolkata port spokesperson said that from today, a new regular service connection between Kolkata ...

Members of a family in Siliguri, which has alleged harassment after one of its members was tested positive for Covid-19 in tests conducted by a private laboratory, have said they now have a reason to smile. A 30-year-old woman of ...

Rotarian Subhasish Chatterjee, who took charge as district governor of Rotary International District 3240, on June 29, has appointed Rotarian Sandeep Ghosal and Rotarian Sunil Agarwal as Assistant Governor (Zone V) and District Secretary respectively. The newly nominated assistant governor, ...

Amid the raging battle against Covid-19 against the backdrop of rising number of cases, the health department has finally decided to kick start the antidengue drive, with a houseto-house survey, from 6 July. On the other hand, a dengue case ...

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is depriving the farmers of Bengal, preventing them from accessing the Centrally sponsored schemes for them for vested political gain, the BJP’s national executive member Mukul Roy said. Addressing a virtual rally today, he said that ...

The Indo-China face-off at Galwan valley has blocked the arrival of the Chinese experts to help commission an Rs127 crore automated coal extracting continuous miner devices and the machinery which are now lying idle at Khottadihi coalmine of the ...

The bloody face-off between Indian and Chinese forces in Ladakh, the outrage that followed, and the recent ban in the country on Chinese mobile phone applications, have all led to people, including political leaders and Tibetan activists, now discussing ...

A grouping of experts of different medical diagnostic disciplines, the Association of Laboratory Consultants of North Bengal (ALCON) has highlighted some serious issues when it comes to dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic. Marking the National Doctors’ Day, the association has ...

The Governor of West Bengal, Jagdeep Dhankhar, took to Twitter to convey that the chief secretary, city commissioner of police and the KMC commissioner, need to submit an action taken report relating to a video that featured human corpses ...

A resident of Dalkhola in North Dinajpur district, who had tested positive for Covid-19, died in the respiratory intensive care unit (RICU) of the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NBMCH) here. The 42-year-old person was admitted there yesterday, sources ...

On June 1 when India celebrated Doctor’s Day, junior and trainee doctors in the Kolkata Medical College Hospital decided to sit in a protest, demanding that the facility be reopened for the treatment of non-COVID-19 patients. West Bengal Chief Minister ...

West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission (WBCERC) today has directed the AMRI Hospitals at Mukundapur along EM Bypass to pay Rs 10 lakh as compensation to the parents of two and a half years-old Oyetri Dey more than two ...

Aresident of Salugara in Siliguri, who had tested positive for Covid- 19, died today. The 55-year-old woman was admitted in the Desun (Covid) hospital at Kawakhali here on 25 June after the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NBMCH) ...

The microbiology department at the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NBMCH) is planning to conduct a study on coronavirus strains to understand whether the virus has changed its character and types. Meanwhile, the Viral Research & Diagnostic Laboratory ...

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has kicked off facilities for collecting swab samples from residences of persons who have been put on home quarantine while samples will also be collected, for Covid-19 tests, from KMC markets in the city. The ...

A50-year-old resident of Matigara in Siliguri, who had tested positive for Covid-19, died while being taken to the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NBMCH) here today. A woman of Ward 30 under the Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) also ...

State tourism minister Gautam Deb today said that an action plan had been readied for strengthening surveillance network to monitor the spread of Covid-19. The plan will focus on slum areas and take steps where active cases are high, ...

More than 1000 residents of Abdulghata and Vitihar villages in Raiganj in North Dinajpur district have taken shelter in a flood rescue centre after floodwaters from the Kulick and Nagar rivers inundated their villages this morning. Water also entered houses ...

Two private tutors were arrested on charges of causing sexual harassment to a minor boy and a minor girl in two separate incidents in Memari and Katwa areas in Burdwan (East) last night. Sandip Mondal "“ a private tutor by ...

Bengal today recorded 572 fresh coronavirus cases, which is the highest single day spike in the state till now while chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced a financial incentive package for 6,500 health workers from 1 July. Taking to Twitter, Miss ...

A66-year-old resident of Jalpaiguri, who had tested positive for Covid-19, died at the Desun (Covid) Hospital at Kawakhali here today. Meanwhile, swab test reports of a 21-year-old youth of Ward 36 under the Siiliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC), who died ...

One percent of the total population above the age of 18 in Alipurduar district may have been infected with Covid-19 so far, a survey has shown. The "˜sero-survey"™ was recently conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), ...

Around 200 persons, including around 100 members of the Trinamul Congress from different wards of the Raiganj Municipality in North Dinajpur district, today switched sides to the BJP. The President of the North Dianjpur BJP committee, Biswajit Lahiri, handed them ...

Covid infections continued to rise in West Bengal with around 70 per cent of the cases being detected from Kolkata, North 24-Parganas and Howrah. The state recorded 521 fresh cases in a single day taking the total case count ...

With regular hike in diesel prices during the past three weeks and economic uncertainty caused by Covid-19 pandemic have badly hit fishermen to ply trawlers to catch Bengali"™s most coveted Hilsa fish in the sea. Aggrieved with the dual crisis ...

Six markets under the Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) will remain closed for seven days from 29 June after some Covid-19 cases were detected in those areas. Expressing concern over the spurt in Covid cases in Siliguri, state tourism minister ...

The district president of the South Dinajpur Youth Congress has been tested positive for Covid-19, following which, at least 45 TMC leaders, including district president Arpita Ghosh and minister Rajib Banerjee, have now gone into self-isolation, party leaders said. It ...

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee today said that Metros will be allowed to run from 1 July on the condition that sale of tickets is restricted to the total seat capacity. The lockdown in the state, with relaxations ...

West Bengal registered its biggest single day spike today with 542 patients testing positive for Covid taking the state’s caseload to 16,190. The coronavirus death toll has risen to 616 with 10 deaths in the last 24 hours. The spike ...

The state government has sounded an alert in all north Bengal districts, following forecast of ‘very heavy to extremely heavy’ rainfall between 24 June and 28 June made by the Indian Metrological Department. The department of disaster management and civil ...

Alarge section of private and mini bus owners today expressed dissatisfaction over chief minister Mamata Banerjee"™s proposal of providing financial assistance of rupees 15,000 to 6000 operators in Kolkata. The bus owners"™ discontent mainly pertained to the fact that the ...

West Bengal registered a steep single day spike in the number of Coronavirus cases, recording 475 cases in the last 24 hours with the majority of cases continuing to be detected from Kolkata, followed by North 24-Parganas and Howrah. The ...

In a significant breakthrough, the CID has arrested from Bihar a man in connection with last year’s incident where gold and cash were looted at the Muthoot Finance Limited branch in Siliguri. The daring daylight armed robbery at the Burdwan ...

At a time when Trinamul Congress is preparing for the upcoming 2021 polls, the West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankar today tweeted and asked Miss Banerjee to assess the state of affairs to enquire whether an emergency-like situation prevails in ...

The taxi operators in the city have decided to continue providing services till 14 July but will stop plying vehicles if their demands are not met by 15 July. The decision comes after a meeting of the taxi unions ...