North East
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Flood situation worsens in Assam, toll rises to 81
Guwahati: The flood situation in Assam deteriorated further on Monday with the death of 11 more persons, taking the death toll…
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Ruckus in Bengal Assembly as Mamata says Agnipath BJP’s ‘ploy’ to create own army
Kolkata: The West Bengal Assembly on Friday witnessed pandemonium after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the Central government’s Agnipath scheme was…
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Polio virus detected in gutter water of Kolkata
Kolkata: Eight years after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared India as polio-free country, germs of the polio virus have been…
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240 arrested over Prophet row violence, Bengal govt tells Calcutta HC
Kolkata: The West Bengal government on Wednesday afternoon submitted to the Calcutta High Court a report on action taken by it…
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Now buyers of sub-75-micron plastic bags in Bengal to face penalty
Kolkata: Not just the sellers but the buyers of sub-75-micron plastic bags in West Bengal will also be subjected to financial…
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Prophet row: Fresh tension in Bengal’s Nadia district
Kolkata: After Sunday, fresh tension broke out again in West Bengal’s Nadia district on Monday evening over the controversial comments made…
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Five killed by heat wave at religious festival in Bengal’s Panihati
Kolkata: At least five devotees have succumbed to extreme heat and several others fell ill as they were attending a religious…
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Firing outside Kolkata mission a matter of grave concern: B’deshi diplomats
Kolkata: A major diplomatic row could have erupted had any of the 10 bullets fired by a Kolkata Police constable hit…
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Entire focus of Mamata is on oppn, not on those on rampage: BJP
New Delhi: After West Bengal Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari was stopped from visiting Howrah, the BJP on Sunday said…
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Now case filed in Calcutta HC on primary teacher recruitment scam in Bengal
Kolkata: At a time when the state government is already facing lots of discomfiture over the West Bengal School Service Commission…
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Nadda’s Bengal visit hopes to see crisis resolved
Kolkata: At a time when the West Bengal unit of the BJP is going through a series of crisis following internal…
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LS bypolls: SP candidates file nominations
Lucknow: The Samajwadi Party has fielded Dharmendra Yadav from the Azamgarh constituency and Asim Raza from Rampur to fight the Lok…
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Political slugfest over Mamata’s inauguration of railway bridge in Singur
Kolkata: A political slugfest broke out after West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, on Friday afternoon, inaugurated a railway bridge at…
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1 killed in IED blast in Manipur
Imphal: At least one person was killed and four others, all from West Bengal, were injured due to the explosion of…
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Bengal Minister’s dismissed teacher daughter also appeared for college teacher’s interview
Kolkata: Ankita Adhikari, daughter of West Bengal Minister of state for Education, Paresh Chandra Adhikari, who had been recently dismissed from…
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Mamta govt wants CM, not Governor, as Chancellor of state varsities
Kolkata: A fresh confrontation between West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar and the Mamta Banerjee government loomed after the state cabinet on…
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Picture of Trinamool MLA occupying college principal’s chair goes viral
Kolkata: The picture of a Trinamool MLA occupying the official chair of a college principal went viral on Thursday causing embarrassment…
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Assam flood: Toll rises to 28; over 5 lakh affected
Guwahati: The death toll from the pre-monsoon floods in Assam on Wednesday rose to 28 as two more deaths were…
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Mamata demands total autonomy for all central agencies
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo, Mamata Banerjee, on Monday, demanded total autonomy for all the central probe…
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Assam and Meghalaya CM to meet Shah on flood and landslides
Shillong: Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma and his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma would soon meet Union Home Minister…
