Criticising the malfunctioning of some Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) during the ongoing Madhya Pradesh assembly elections, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday claimed that providing faulty EVMs was a ploy to manipulate people's votes.Taking...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said her party Trinamool Congress will contest a number of Lok Sabha seats in the neighbouring states of Jharkhand, Odisha and Assam in the 2019 General Elections.Upping the ante against the Bharatiya...

West Bengal’s popular city & the gateway to North East India Siliguri just got an exciting update. India’s leading entertainment and gaming hub SMAAASH opens its first centre in West Bengal at Vega Circle Mall 4th Floor in Siliguri today. All the gaming...

Targeting the ruling BJP at the Centre on the issue of National Register of Citizens (NRC), West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said Bengal does not bow before anyone and will provide shelter to all those people who have been wronged and face...

In one of the biggest crackdown on gold smuggling in the two years, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) seized 55 kg of smuggled gold worth Rs 18.2 crore from West Bengal's Siliguri and arrested two persons, an official said on Saturday.Acting on...

Accusing the BJP of funding secessionist movements and triggering communal riots in the northern region of West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday alleged that Bengal was the 'victim of maximum neglect' under the present central government."This...

Urging the people of north Bengal hills to remain peaceful, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said her government will provide all support to the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) required for development of the region."The recent tourism festival...

Six persons were killed, three injured and a number of roads blocked following multiple landslides triggered by heavy rains in Sikkim's South district on Wednesday, police said.All the fatalities occured following house collapses in three areas falling under...

Claiming that peace has been restored in the hills after Thursday's violence, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday announced that the election of Gorkha Territorial Administration - the development body in the north Bengal hills - may take place...

Terming BJP President Amit Shah's remarks on Mahatma Gandhi as "unethical and unfortunate", West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said Shah should immediately withdraw the comments and apologise for insulting the Father of the Nation."Mahatma...

BJP chief Amit Shah on Tuesday lunched at a tribal's house, and knocked on the doors of the locals here as part of an intensive booth-level mass contact programme in Naxalabari block -- the cradle of the 50-year-old Maoist movement in India -- in northern...

BJP leader Juhi Chowdhury, arrested for her alleged link to a child trafficking racket in West Bengal, was on Wednesday sent to 12 days CID custody, a senior official said. An embarrassed BJP removed her as state secretary of its women's wing.Amid tight...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday announced the formation of three more developmental boards for hill people and rolled out a Rs 100-crore project for tea garden workers.She claimed that the state government could have done much more developmental...

Two persons were killed and six others injured when the engine and two coaches of the Guwahati-bound Capital Express derailed in West Bengal on Tuesday night, an official said.The engine, an SLR coach and a second class coach derailed near Samuktala Road...

A man was arrested with Rs 90 lakh cash in Naxalbari area of West Bengal's Darjeeling district on Saturday, a police officer said.Nirmal Agarwal was intercepted with the cash stacked in one suitcase and two bags in a white colour car having a West Bengal...

Acting on a tip-off, forest officials arrested four persons and seized five containers of snake venom worth Rs 200 crore from Phulbari area of North Bengal's Jalpaiguri district, an official said on Saturday."Four persons were arrested and five bullet-proof...

Seven people died and eight others were injured when an old three-storey building collapsed in West Bengal's Darjeeling town, officials said.Seven of the injured were in hospital following the accident that happened late on Friday night at Dr Zakir Hussain...

Three members of a family, including a minor, were crushed to death on Wednesday when their house collapsed in a landslide in northern West Bengal's Darjeeling district, an official said.The incident happened in the early hours of the day in Lodhma in the...

East Bengal rode a Dong brace to prevail over their arch rivals Mohun Bagan 2-1 in an I-League soccer clash here on Saturday.Yusa Katsumi scored a consolation goal for Mohun Bagan late in the second session of the Kanchenjunga Stadium encounter.A little after...

Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday flagged off a 'goodwill' rail rake carrying 2200 tonnes of high speed diesel from Siliguri in West Bengal to Bangladesh.The consignment, an outcome of discussions between the two governments, was sent by Siliguri...