West Bengal

3 killed in fire at market near Kolkata

2:19 pm December 19, 2020

Bhangar (WB): Three persons were killed as a fire broke out at a market in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district in the early hours of Saturday, officials said. A short-circuit caused the blaze that first broke out at a kerosene outlet in the Ghatakpukur Bazar area in Bhangar, around 20 km from Kolkata, they […]

Major fire in north Bengal market, 150 shops gutted

3:20 pm December 18, 2020

Jalpaiguri (WB): A major fire broke out at a market in West Bengal‘s Jalpaiguri district in the early hours of Friday, gutting at least 150 shops, officials said. The flames were spotted around 3 am at the Dhupguri market by a shopkeeper, they said. Six fire tenders were rushed to the spot but the firefighting […]

Stormy Mamata battles tempest ahead of Bengal polls

10:40 pm December 17, 2020

Kolkata/New Delhi: Mamata Banerjee was Thursday waging a hardy battle with the Modi government that demanded three of her IPS officers on central deputation against her will, and another with mutinous TMC leaders led by a regional satrap seeking to thwart her bid for a third term in office. As the West Bengal chief minister […]

Tiger census begins in Sundarbans

3:55 pm December 17, 2020

Canning (WB): The tiger census through camera trapping method has started in West Bengal’s Sundarbans, which, according to the last estimate, was home to 96 big cats, an official said. The process of camera installation in the Sundarbans, one of the largest mangrove forests in the world, has been completed in the first phase, and […]

Mamata inaugurates med college campus, new police battalion in Coochbehar

7:40 pm December 15, 2020

Coochbehar: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday inaugurated the campus of a newly built medical college and hospital here, and said the facility meets a long-term demand of the locals. Work for setting up Maharaja Dipendra Narayan Medical College and Hospital had commenced in February 2019 on a 25- acre land, Banerjee said. The college, […]