Kolkata

Some of the persons injured in the accident are critical and all of them have been shifted to a nearby hospital, police said.

Though BJP did not win both the Bolpur and Birbhum seats in 2019 Lok Sabha, but the saffron brigade was leading in five out of 11 Assembly seats in the Birbhum district.

Drums of kerosene stocked in the shop started exploding, following which the flames spread to an adjacent eatery, a shop and a house, officials said.

On Tuesday, saddened by the slogans raised against him by his party leaders and party workers, Biplab Deb has decided to seek the people’s ‘mandate’ on continuing in his post on December 13.

At least 1,000 volunteers will be administered the Covaxin in the phase III trials in Kolkata.

West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh's lawyer sent the legal notice to Banerjee for the words he allegedly used in a rally in South 24 Parganas district on Sunday.

Saumitra Khan, who is also the state president of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), said on the sidelines of a programme in Jalpaiguri that the current turmoil and the brewing discontentment in the ruling party have brought to the fore the question if...

Of these, 30 trains will be run in Howrah division, 22 trains in Asansol division and two trains in Malda division, an ER spokesman said here.

Kalyan Banerjee accused Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar of obstructing the probe and being connected with people who have criminal backgrounds.

Senior TMC MP and spokesman Sougata Roy lauded party supremo Mamata Banerjee as a force who can unite all the secular forces in the country at a time when independent and constitutional bodies like CBI and the office of the governor have been compromised.

While in the virtual meeting, Mamata maintained that there was enough manpower and infrastructure in the state to handle the vaccination process, the plan will help the West Bengal government in the smooth execution of the exercise whenever a vaccine beco...

Earlier, Jahan had participated in the festivities of Durga Puja for which she came under severe attacks by radicalists alleging she committed a 'sin' and bringing disrepute to Islam.

BJP national general secretary and the party's Bengal minder Kailash Vijayvargiya had on Saturday indulged in personal attacks against a youth leader and two-time MP of the TMC, Ghosh said.

The BJP has an "assembly line for manufacturing lies" which are circulated through its propaganda machinery, senior TMC MP Kakali Ghosh Dastidar said while addressing a press conference at the party headquarters here.

The Calcutta High Court had earlier disallowed Chhath Puja ceremonies at the sprawling lake in addition to upholding a ban on such activities at Rabindra Sarobar, another waterbody in south Kolkata.

Since 2012, Upen Biswas and his team have worked extensively and trained 27,800 scheduled caste and tribal women selected from nearly 30,000 villages in West Bengal in beauty care.