Bengal

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday greeted the people of West Bengal on 'Paschimbanga Divas' and said the central government will work with the state government to fulfil their dreams and aspirations. The new BJP government has decided...

KOLKATA: West Bengal Police has proposed creating two all-women armed battalions under the State Police Reserve Force (SPRF) to strengthen the safety of women and children and assist in handling sensitive law-and-order situations, a senior bureaucrat said on Friday. The...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit West Bengal and Odisha on June 20-21 and participate in the 12th International Yoga Day celebrations in Kolkata before joining President Droupadi Murmu for offering prayers at the sacred groves Santhali...

KOLKATA: The TMC on Thursday alleged that long-serving security personnel guarding Z-category protectee and former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee have been removed, terming it as a "new low in political vendetta". There is, however, no official confirmation regarding...

KOLKATA: The first full-fledged budget of the government headed by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari will be presented in the West Bengal assembly on June 22. The schedule for the upcoming budget session was finalised on Tuesday following meetings chaired by...

NEW DELHI: MPs Saayoni Ghosh and Mala Roy arrived in Delhi on Sunday ahead of the rebel TMC parliamentarians' meeting with the Lok Sabha speaker to stake claim for "real Trinamool" even as TMC leadership asserted that there's no...

KOLKATA: The rebellion within the TMC took a decisive turn on Wednesday, as 58 dissident MLAs backed legislator Ritabrata Banerjee, who has been expelled from the party, as the leader of the legislature party and conveyed their decision to...

KOLKATA: The West Bengal government has handed around 32 acres to the BSF for fencing along the India-Bangladesh border, a process that had been pending for several years, Panchayat Minister Dilip Ghosh said on Wednesday. Briefing reporters after a meeting...

KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday held his third weekly ‘janata darbar’, with patients, artistes, professionals and ordinary citizens turning up in large numbers to register their grievances and apprise the new CM of their hardships. Hundreds...

KOLKATA: The West Bengal government has initiated a comprehensive overhaul of Kolkata Police's riot-control and law-and-order equipment, with plans to procure gear matching the standards used by Delhi Police, CRPF and other central armed police forces, a senior official...