Govt approves Rs 3,120 cr highway projects in West Bengal

Cyclone Mahasen, which originated over northern Bay of Bengal and moved north-north-east through Bangladesh and touched northeastern states on Thursday, indirectly affected the weather in Jharkhand and adjoining states. According to the met ...

SILIGURI/KOLKATA: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee is in Darjeeling once again, trying to woo the state's northernmost constituencies ahead of the Panchayat polls that are now imminent. She held a meeting with leaders of the rather disgruntled (GJM) ...

A deep depression over the southeast Bay of Bengal moved north-westward today and intensified into a cyclonic storm 'Mahasen', lying 1520 Km south-southeast of Paradip in Odisha.

An agent of a chitfund company in Bashirhat of North 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, was allegedly driven to suicide after being harassed by investors. Though there are no reports of the company running into trouble as yet, the agent was ...

The train was running from Kolkata to Haldibari in north Bengal.

Kolkata, May 13 (PTI) Cashing in on the chit fund controversy which has caught north-east Indian state of West Bengal by a storm, a young director has made a film featuring a chit fund owner like that of the infamous Saradha Group which has ...

Cyclone Mahasen has begun its last full-day run over the warm waters of the North Bay of Bengal ahead of landfall over the Chittagong coast in Bangladesh tonight. The cyclone had taken shape as a low-pressure area five days ago, and had clambered up across ...

An adult male leopard, which was rescued by the forest officials from a busy locality in north Bengal after a battle of seven hours, is suspected to have been killed due to overdose of medicines used for tranquillizing the animal. However, forest department ...

Siliguri, May 12: North Bengal University has filled up two vacancies that have been lying vacant for more than a year with the appointment of professors to the posts of dean of arts, commerce and law and dean of science.