State Health Minister Sharadwat Mukherjee alleged that evidence and information related to the case had been systematically destroyed. He said the department would try to identify those responsible and examine whether a larger network was involved in the alleged irregularities.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla is consulting both factions of the Trinamool Congress before deciding on a merger claim submitted by 20 rebel MPs who have aligned with the NCPI.
If all goes as planned, Prime Minister Narendra Modi could give a green signal to at least three railway projects in West Bengal during his two-day visit to the state on 20 and 21 June.
The chief minister explained the rationale behind the exercise, saying while some wards have over 40,000 to 50,000 voters, the electorate count in some other wards is only around 8,000 to 10,000.
The Institute of Engineering & Management (IEM), Kolkata, and the University of Engineering & Management (UEM), in association with SMART Society USA, successfully concluded the 2026 edition of their flagship Study Abroad Program (SAP), International Internship Initiative, and the Smart Edge & Neuromorphic Systems Conference (SENSE-SG 2026) in Singapore.
A school teacher was arrested in Birbhum district after the dismembered remains of a missing Class VII pupil were recovered from a forest near Kullakata village early this morning.
Hundreds of passengers at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) Airport jostled to take selfies beside a life-size cut-out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, coinciding with his 75th birthday.
For the first time a Bengali documentary on Durga Puja will be shown at Time Square, New York this year.
In a spirited display of social responsibility, Coal India Limited (CIL) successfully organised a Blood Donation Camp at its corporate headquarters as part of the nationwide Raktadan Amrit Mahotsav 2.0 initiative.
A 52-year-old former Army jawan, now employed as a security guard at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, died in a freak accident on Wednesday afternoon when a stray Chinese kite string slit his throat as he rode his motorcycle to work, police said.
