Central agencies like the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Intelligence Bureau (IB) are active in Malda for the past two days as they look for a person linked to alleged Al-Qaeda operatives arrested in Murshidabad district in the ...

Though the situation is still not better, the South Dinajpur district Covid taskforce has decided to restore normality by following only certain the guidelines ahead of Durga Puja. Several containment zones had been marked in the district in the ...

The Officer-in-charge of the Balurghat Sadar Traffic Office, Sudipta Kumar Das,  allegedly committed suicide after he consumed 30 sleeping pills last night, sources said. As the matter came to the notice of family members late last night, the traffic OC ...

Consultative Committee of Planters’ Association (CCPA), an apex body of associations in the tea industry, has agreed to pay this year’s puja bonus among its workers at the rate of 20 percent. CCPA chairman Nayantara Pal Chowdhary, after holding ...

Several roads under the Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) have been severely damaged in heavy rainfall this monsoon, while the Covid-19 pandemic has taken a toll on the repairing part, SMC officials said today. Many motorists and commuters have complained ...

Tourism stakeholders in the region have decided to take up with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee their various demands, which include resumption of more train, bus and air services from Kolkata to areas in North Bengal for tourists wanting to ...

Online classes through tele-conferencing have failed to kick off in South Dinajpur. Nine empanelled and trained teachers in the district have failed to receive calls from students in the district or outside for the classes, it is learnt. Teachers, ...

After the Centre’s decision to stop export of onion to control the rising prices back home, hundreds of lorries laden with the vegetable are now stranded at the land port with Bangladesh at Mahadipur under the English Bazaar police ...

At a time when the health installations across state are facing shortage of trained nursing staff, uncountable nursing students across Bengal have fallen prey to the desperate running of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh affiliated diploma institutes which are not ...

Officials of the Raiganj Social Forestry Division, along with some non-government organisations, today started a census of migratory birds in the Kulick Bird Sanctuary, the largest bird sanctuary in Asia, in Raiganj in North Dinajpur district. Apart from officials of ...

The second and probably the last bi-weekly lockdown in the state, and in city, to curb Covid spread, was today enforced strictly by police who set up checkpoints at intersections to stop vehicles for enquiry and scanned the drivers ...

A woman faculty of Katwa College has today brought charges of sexual harassment at workplace against the head of the Zoology department. College authority have started an investigation. Recently, students had alleged extortion against the HoD, Zoology of Katwa College, Nirbhik ...

As much as 1,450 metric tonnes of Bangladeshi hilsa is expected to hit markets in West Bengal ahead of the Pujas, a piece of good news for Bengalis amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. For the first time since 2012, when Bangladesh ...

The state-wide complete lockdown on 12 September has been withdrawn in view of the NEET examination scheduled to be held on Sunday. However, the complete lockdown on 11 September will remain in place and as such, all activities will remain ...

The head of the Zoology department in Katwa College, under Burdwan University, accompanied by three other faculties, have allegedly demanded money from certain students promising "˜healthy"™ marks in semester exams, and threatening to reduce marks if one dared to ...

A continuous dip in the number of new Covid- 19 infections in the last fortnight in Malda has left the district administration hopeful, while, however, not letting its guard down. According to officials, they should still tread with caution and ...

As many as 15 Panchayats in Burdwan (East) consistently failed to give proper explanations on revenue generated from toll tax collection in their respective areas leading the district administration to take the matter to the state secretariat, Nabanna, the ...

Even as the Kolkata metro authorities are considering plans to resume commercial services from the middle of this month, the West Bengal government today requested them to run services on 13 September for candidates appearing for the National Eligibility ...

The United Employee Association (UEA) consisting of ad-hoc employees of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) today launched a pen-down strike in their offices, demanding regularization of their services. The UEA affiliated to the Binoy Tamang faction of the Gorkha Jan ...

Six companies of India Reserve Battalions (IRB) 14th Nagaland Armed Police Battalion have left for Dimapur from Purulia, after serving in the junglemahal for over ten years, fighting the Maoists in Purulia district. Mr. P.Selva Murugan, SP of Purulia said ...

Shyamal Brahma, a businessman in Raiganj in North Dinajpur district, could very well be called the most ardent follower of former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, who passed away in Delhi yesterday. Since 2009, Mr Brahma, who had good relations with ...

A Covid-19 affected elderly person with malfunctioning of multiple organs, has recovered from the disease and has returned home. The record of Covid-19 recovery rates for elderly persons, suffering from malfunctioning of multiple organs, are though not encouraging, Gobinda Lal ...

Teachers in South Dinajpur are a disappointed lot after the district failed to find a place in the state government’s list of best schools and teachers for the fourth consecutive time this year. As the government has prepared the list ...

Chhatradhar Mahato, a prominent leader in Junglemahal, who once led the Maoist backed People"™s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA) and currently a state committee leader of Trinamul Congress was reportedly grilled by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in two ...

In the wake of increasing number of Covid-19 cases and deaths in the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) area, Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha leader Binoy Tamang has suggested that the business community and those associated with transport to function only ...

Swearing that the killers of former Hemtabad MLA Debendronath Roy will not be spared, the All India Secretary of BJP Kailash Vijayvargiya said the party would knock on the door of the Supreme Court and ask for a CBI ...

Even as ministers of six opposition-ruled states, including West Bengal, moved the Supreme Court on Friday seeking review of its order permitting the Centre to conduct NEET and JEE entrance exams this year, amid the pandemic, West Bengal Chief ...

Rattled by the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the country since end of March Medical Council of India (MCI), sole body monitoring medical education across states and union territories, has decided to introduce pandemic management module in the syllabus of MBBS ...

The Kolkata airport authorities today announced the dates in September when flights from "˜Six Covid hotspot cities"™ could fly to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) airport in Kolkata. A Kolkata airport official today informed that in the first two ...

The death of a Covid positive driver of a private bus has triggered panic among the operators working under the Joint Council of Bus Syndicates (JCBS) who are demanding financial assistance for the family of the deceased from the ...

A 30-year-old primary school teacher of Durgapur, Chiranjit Dhibar has returned home from Odisha after a successful human trial of Covaxin, the Covid-19 vaccine to be manufactured by Bharat Biotech. The human trial of phases 1 and 2 of the ...

In a major development Atomic Minerals Directorate (sole explorer of Uranium in India), under the Department of Atomic Energy is collaborating with National Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur for world"™s first commercial helium gas exploration plant from hot spring ...

In the ongoing tussle between West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar and the state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the former, on Wednesday, asked the WB CM to release a White Paper to make known the figure of total investment attracted ...

Workers affiliated to trade unions of different parties have joined hands to launch a relay hunger strike at Darjeeling district’s biggest tea plantation, demanding payment of dues. Following the strike that began on 20 August, the management of Longview Tea ...

The Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha(Binoy Tamang camp) has decided to move ahead with different issues in the coming days which, leaders said,they will be taking up with the central and the state governments,along with the Election Commission. A decision to ...

‘Illegal constructions’ at Bidhan Market in Siliguri will be removed this month, state tourism minister Gautam Deb said today. Nine such constructions have been identified, officials said. Mr Deb also said no construction can be carried out in the market ...

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar today doubled down on his attacks against the Mamata Banerjee-led state government by saying that the members appointed by the chief minister to probe into the alleged scam, relating to purchase of pandemic related ...

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) today announced that Kolkata airport has managed a whopping 3662 flights during current times of curtailed domestic travel while the passenger footfall at the airport in July, was near three lakhs. The Netaji Subhas ...

The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) with the concerted efforts of the state health department has started full-fledged rapid antigen tests for coronavirus on a particular section of people that include housemaids visiting senior citizens, construction workers, e-rickshaw ...

As downpour intensifies, city gourmets throng the fish markets searching for hilsa from Bangladesh. But when they return home in mirth, assuming that the hilsa in their bags are from Padma, they are mistaken. It has been caught not far ...