With a deep fiscal scar left by the previous regime, the state transport department is exploring options to stay afloat and bring the financial accounts to positive at the earliest.
The demonstration at Esplanade, the first after the party was hit by the massive political storm, saw a large number of supporters and hawkers joining the march.
In the first meeting between the Department of Tourism and various tourism industry associations, state Tourism Minister Shankar Ghosh said the government has a "vision to transform Bengal into a global destination".
West Bengal tourism minister Shankar Ghosh said a final decision on organising the Durga Puja Carnival in 2026 would be taken after a Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari.
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) councillor from 108 ward who faces charges of extortion was held by cops from the Anandapur police station.
Trinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday said that those who tried to silence Bengal by sending in the Enforcement Directorate (ED) have ultimately been silenced themselves.
The Calcutta High Court is set to hear petitions linked to the ED’s raids on I-PAC and Pratik Jain, amid political allegations and parallel proceedings.
Responding to protests by all 1,100 voters of a single village in East Burdwan's Katwa sub-division, who had been served summons for hearings in the second phase of the SIR process, the district electoral officer has agreed to set up hearing centres in their village instead of the one 10 km away, where they were initially called.
The Divisional Railway Hospital, Asansol, under the Asansol Division of Eastern Railway, successfully managed a rare and extraordinary medical emergency on 12 January 2026 involving a one-year-and-four-month-old child whose index finger was trapped into an idli-making plate, posing a serious risk of compromised blood circulation.
The Salanpur police station under the Asansol-Durgapur Police Commissionerate (ADPC) has arrested a youth, identified as Choton Sen, for allegedly arranging an Indian passport for a Bangladeshi woman using forged documents.
