Singarayakonda student tragedy, highlighting the need for a fair investigation, school management's right to due process, and justice based on evidence rather than allegations.
DRDO to set up new missile testing range in West Bengal’s Junput
West Bengal elections: CPI(M), CPI announce candidates for Nandigram, Rejinagar bypolls
What’s in a school? A Swiss woman's West Bengal initiative offers new meaning
West Bengal Govt to stop financial assistance to students to buy mobile phones
West Bengal asks authorities to prepare TET for 90,000 in-service teachers after SC order
West Bengal, Japan explore new trade, air connectivity and cultural partnerships
West Bengal forms panel for naming and renaming public places
West Bengal: Powerful explosion in TMC leader's abandoned house; no casualty
Suvendu Adhikari eyes Ambani meeting, BRICS dinner as West Bengal steps up investment push
WBCHSE West Bengal HS 3rd semester exams postponed: Check complete schedule here
West Bengal assembly passes bill to transfer university staff; CM Suvendu Adhikari tells dissenting employees to quit
Man beaten to death over suspected mobile theft in West Bengal; 2 held
West Bengal assembly bypolls: BJP forms 263-member state executive committee
Data centre business may get more space in West Bengal
1,200 km more railway tracks coming: Govt clears 8 projects worth Rs 20,000 crore to connect 6,900 villages across West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka & more
Bad weather prevents West Bengal CM Adhikari's helicopter from landing in Kalimpong, forces return to Siliguri
New Delhi: Alleging that police were being misused in West Bengal to target her party's leaders and activists, TMC Rajya Sabha deputy leader Sagarika Ghose on Wednesday said authorities were failing to upload FIRs online and serve mandatory notices to the accu
Nihar Mukherjee is Mamata Banerjee s maternal cousin and a regional Trinamool leader. The body has been sent for an autopsy and an investigation into her death has begun
The West Bengal Special Task Force (STF) has arrested Fazle Rabbi, the brother of a Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader, for allegedly spying for Pakistan s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). Rabbi, former Trinamool Congress Islampur block president Zakir Hossain
A day after a hotel blaze killed nine people in central Kolkata, West Bengal s fire and emergencies department on Thursday pulled up nine guest houses and four restaurants-cum-bars on Mirza Ghalib Street for allegedly failing to comply with fire-safety rules
In a setback to the Mamata Banerjee-led faction of the TMC, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday refused to give interim relief in a petition against the Assembly Speaker s decision to appoint rival faction leader Ritabrata Banerjee as the Leader of Opposition (
The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) on Tuesday alleged that multiple venues in Kolkata cancelled or refused bookings for its meetings after the owners of a venue came under pressure from local BJP representatives. The CJP s scheduled press conference at the Kolkat
A consumer commission in West Bengal has directed a car dealer and a vehicle owner to refund Rs 2.45 lakh and pay an additional Rs 1.8 lakh towards expenses, compensation and litigation costs after a second-hand SUV sold to a customer was seized by police on t
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday said that on completion of his first year in office on May 9, 2027, he will sit for a test and accept his failure if he fails to score nine out of 10. Addressing a gathering after launching a drinking water
Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Abhishek Banerjee approached the Calcutta High Court Monday, alleging that his bank accounts have been frozen without any valid reason, just as he prepares to travel abroad for medical treatment. Banerjee s counsel mentioned the mat
A well-marked low-pressure system over the Northwest Bay of Bengal rapidly intensified into a depression on Monday morning, triggering widespread heavy-to-very heavy rainfall across West Bengal and prompting the India Meteorological Department (IMD) to issue s
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday slammed senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, saying her objection to singing the full version of Vande Mataram was an insult to nationalism and the song's writer, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay.He sa
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari Sunday launched a sharp attack against Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, alleging that she objected to the singing of the full version of Vande Mataram during an Independence Day event. Adhikari demanded an unconditional
Saigal Hossain, a former bodyguard, was arrested in a document forgery case. Police seized Rs 12.84 lakh in cash, around 800 grams of gold, more than 150 land deeds, a laptop and foreign currencies during a lengthy search
Kolkata: Former Deputy Speaker of the West Bengal Assembly and former Trinamool Congress MLA Asish Banerjee was found dead in a room at his Rampurhat party office on Sunday morning.A five-term MLA Banerjee s body was found hanging in the office, said police, a
Former Trinamool Congress MLA and former Deputy Speaker from Rampurhat, Ashish Banerjee, was found dead under mysterious circumstances on Sunday morning. His body was recovered hanging inside the party office adjacent to his residence, and a suicide note was a
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, in his first Independence Day address, laid out his government s vision for a Developed Bengal , with job creation, women s safety and firm law and order among its key priorities, as he set the goal of making the st
Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari announced Friday that the Centre s Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao scheme is being introduced in West Bengal. Speaking at an event in Kolkata to observe the Kanya Ratna Day , formerly known as the Kanyashree Day , Suvendu said t
The investigation into the mysterious death of 30-year-old nurse at Nil Ratan Sircar (NRS) Medical College and Hospital, Rupali Barman, has taken a turn with preliminary post-mortem findings suggesting a possible drug overdose. Police, however, are awaiting de
BJP MP Ananta Maharaj publicly apologized for his controversial comments regarding Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, which the West Bengal leadership welcomed as a sign of accountability. Nevertheless, the police have filed an FIR against him, and the state governme
Observing that even a trespasser is entitled to electricity , the Calcutta High Court set aside a trial court s order and directed the Calcutta Electricity Supply Corporation (CESC) Ltd to grant an electricity connection to a woman within three weeks. The cour
A day after West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari warned against derogatory remarks on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, the government on Thursday withdrew and annulled the Banga Bibhushan award conferred to BJP Rajya Sabha MP Nagendra Ray, popularly known a
From saffron to white and then back to saffron: A room in the Academy of Fine Arts in Kolkata has turned into a new battleground between the ruling BJP and the Left. Two months after the BJP stormed to power in West Bengal after trouncing the Mamata Banerjee-l
Former Trinamool Congress MLA Nirmal Ghosh was arrested in Odisha on Thursday over his alleged involvement in the hurried cremation of the doctor who was raped and murdered at Kolkata s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in 2024, police said.Ghosh, the former
A 30-year-old nurse was found dead under mysterious circumstances inside a toilet at NRS Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata late on Wednesday night. The nurse, who was on duty in a High Dependency Unit at the government hospital, had begun her night shift
The West Bengal Special Task Force (STF) arrested a suspected Pakistani national along the India-Bangladesh border in Bongaon early Wednesday morning. Rana Rouf was allegedly living in India under the assumed name Wahab Alam using forged identification documen
NCPI MP Jagadish Chandra Basunia and his wife, TMC MLA Sangeeta Roy, who returned to their house in Sitai in Cooch Behar district at midnight, after nearly three months, had to leave the area shortly after, as a group of people gathered outside their residence
As the new BJP government in West Bengal prepares to draft a new industrial policy for the state, the contentious issue of land acquisition, which triggered Singur and Nandigram agitations, was the focal point of discussion at a marathon meeting between leadin
Former Trinamool Congress MLA Nirmal Ghosh is in for trouble as the West Bengal Police on Monday launched a fresh investigation into the allegations on the hurried cremation of the junior doctor who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital
The Supreme Court said Tuesday that it cannot fix a timeline for the tribunals formed to hear appeals against the exclusion of names from the voters list following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal but said it would look into the quantum of d
Kolkata: CREDAI West Bengal on Monday welcomed the state government's reform push for the real estate sector, particularly its proposed Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for building safety and regulatory compliance, even as it said scrutiny of 585 of 706 pro
The Calcutta High Court on Monday allowed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) challenging the removal of loudspeakers from mosques across West Bengal. The PIL was mentioned before a Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice Atarup
The Supreme Court Monday allowed TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee to travel abroad for three weeks for eye treatment, overruling the Calcutta High Court s refusal, despite West Bengal s apprehension that he may not return amid multiple criminal cases. A three-judge be
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari Monday met the family members of a Trinamool Congress (TMC) worker who recently died in police custody in Halisahar and announced Rs 10 lakh compensation and a job for his wife. The administration also suspended the
