Kolkata, Oct. 14 -- Kolkata's "rainbow flyovers," whose carriageways were painted in rainbow colours ahead of Durga Puja, sparked safety concerns after at least three motorcyclists were involved in ac... Read More
Kolkata, Oct. 13 -- An 'army' of women, many of whom have lost their husbands in tiger attacks, known as 'tiger widows', are now fighting to save the Sundarbans in West Bengal, the world's largest man... Read More
Kolkata, Oct. 13 -- An 'army' of women, many of whom have lost their husbands in tiger attacks, are now fighting to save the Sundarbans in West Bengal, the world's largest mangrove delta and home to m... Read More
Kolkata, Sept. 30 -- A three-year-old tigress was flown in from Bihar's Valmiki Tiger Reserve to West Bengal's Buxa Tiger Reserve on Wednesday, nearly eight years after the National Tiger Conservation... Read More
Kolkata, Sept. 24 -- Former West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee seems to have sensed an opportunity to inject momentum into her politics against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), capitalising on the contro... Read More
Kolkata, Sept. 24 -- The Bangladesh government has stopped the import of Hilsa, including from India and Myanmar, after cancelling no-objection certificates issued to 103 fish importers, raising conce... Read More
Kolkata, Sept. 16 -- A political row erupted in West Bengal over a tender floated by the Kolkata Police to procure orange-coloured, full-sleeve T-shirts and peak caps for temporary volunteers during D... Read More
Kolkata, Sept. 4 -- The West Bengal government has begun collecting blood samples from immediate family members of people missing in Nepal after the August 26 flash flood, with DNA profiles to be matc... Read More
Kolkata, Sept. 2 -- Leaders of the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI) on Wednesday hinted at forming a coalition with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the upcoming municipal electio... Read More
Kolkata, Aug. 29 -- A bus driver's split-second decision to turn back may have saved the lives of a retired West Bengal schoolteacher and his wife, who were on their way to Tibet when flash floods str... Read More