The Latest Breaking News from Bengal

Issues in planning, monitoring, non-utilisation of funds, and even quality of materials used flagged by performance audit

KOLKATA: The state transport department has set itself the target of acquiring 2,000 electric buses for Kolkata to add to its existing fleet of 80, the biggest of all metro cities in the country.

14-year-old girl travels all the way to Bengal from Idukki to continue studies

DARJEELING: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday iterated after a meeting with representatives of Hills outfits that election to the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration will be held in May-June.

DARJEELING: After three days of steering through some of the toughest terrains of north Bengal, the extraordinary incident of a driver needing impromptu treatment after suffering a cardiac attack and participants making post-rally protests over some decisions delaying the announcement of the results, the eighth edition of Himalayan Drive came…

Police say that person in the photograph is an ASI in Mamata’s security team

Eight people were burnt to death in a village in the State’s Birbhum district on March 21, as a retaliation to the killing of a local leader. What makes West Bengal so susceptible to vendetta politics and deadly violence? Why are factional feuds on the rise? Shiv Sahay Singh reports…

Eight people were burnt to death on Tuesday in the district following the murder of a local Trinamool Congress functionary

Salil Ahuja brings you the news from Bengal, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Afghanistan.