Kolkata, July 30 -- West Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya has urged chief minister Suvendu Adhikari to bid for a Rs.1,500 crore grant under the Centre's newly launched BHAVYA Rasayan Scheme to ... Read More
Kolkata, July 23 -- A Chennai man was arrested by the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of the Customs Department on Wednesday after at least 707 Red-eared Slider turtles were seized from him at the Netaji ... Read More
Kolkata, July 22 -- The death toll in the methane explosion inside the under-construction tunnel of the Teesta Stage-VI Hydel Project in Bengal's south Sikkim rose to 13 on Wednesday after another bod... Read More
Kolkata, July 22 -- Three more dead bodies were retrieved from the under-construction tunnel of the Teesta Stage-VI Hydel Project at Samardung in South Sikkim on Wednesday, where a methane explosion t... Read More
Kolkata, July 10 -- The new anti-crime law passed by the West Bengal legislative assembly will be enforced from July 13, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari said on Friday. "The Governor has given his as... Read More
Kolkata, July 1 -- A 10-member delegation of the Ritabrata Banerjee-led breakaway faction of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) is likely to meet the full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) in ... Read More
Kolkata, July 1 -- The West Bengal government has rejected around 2.6 million applications for the newly launched Annapurna Yojana on citizenship-related grounds after scrutiny using Special Intensive... Read More
Kolkata, June 25 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in West Bengal will publish department-wise white papers on corruption during the previous Trinamool Congress (TMC) regime, state financ... Read More
Kolkata, June 20 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to lead the 12th International Yoga Day celebrations from Kolkata's Red Road on Sunday morning, with more than 30,000 participants expected at t... Read More
Kolkata, June 18 -- West Bengal governor R.V. Ravi on Thursday said large-scale illegal infiltration had altered the state's demographic balance and alleged that vested interest groups had facilitated... Read More