Within hours of an inspection by the state irrigation minister, his department has halted trial traffic movement along the newly-constructed causeway across the Durgapur barrage on the Damodar river today.
Religion does not need any sermon to be propagated. Religion is something which touches the heart, said chief minister Mamata Banerjee alluding to the Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, who on Wednesday would hold a grand convention on religion at Contai, East Midnapore.
Siliguri MLA Dr Sankar Ghosh of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has expressed serious concern over what he describes as a “concerning change in demography” in Siliguri and its surrounding areas.
The Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC), North Bengal Chapter, is set to host the India Tea Conclave 2025 in Siliguri from 1-2 May, bringing the spotlight to Darjeeling Tea and teas produced in the Terai and Dooars regions.
With just a day to go before the much-anticipated inauguration of the Jagannath Temple in Digha, 3,003 lotus flowers and holy water from the Susunia Hills have been dispatched from Bankura district.
Slain central Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer Manish Ranjan Mishra of Jhalda in Purulia was killed while trying to push at least a dozen tourists to safe places while the terrorists were spraying bullets indiscriminately in Pahalgam in Kashmir, said his widow Jaya Mishra.
Azad Mullick, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) from Birati in North 24-Parganas district during the middle of this month in connection with the fake passport racket scam, is a Pakistani, said officials.
In the aftermath of the deadly terror attack in Pahalgam, the West Bengal Special Task Force (STF) has intensified its vigilance across the state’s border regions, particularly in sensitive zones like Bongaon and Basirhat and other India Bangladesh borders areas.
With close to a thousand TV channels broadcasting 24X7, 100,000 newspapers, innumerable radio stations, and billions of messages on social media ~ all competing for eyeballs ~ the attention span of the average viewer has been reduced to some few seconds.
At least eight devotees were killed and four others injured in a wall collapse during an annual festival at Sri Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy temple at Simhachalam in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam on Wednesday.
