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Police recommend mandatory verification of domestic help

Kolkata, Feb. 8 -- Kolkata Police recommended mandatory verification of household employees through its digital registration system, after it was found that domestic help and caregivers have figured i... Read More


Fix unsafe buildings or shut them: KMC warns owners

Kolkata, Feb. 8 -- The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has issued a clear warning to owners of privately run markets to carry out immediate repairs to unsafe buildings or face closure. Citing ris... Read More


Barrackpore: TMC suspends councillor for 6 years; arrested for 'murder'

Kolkata, Feb. 8 -- A Trinamool Congress (TMC) councillor was suspended from the party for six years and arrested for the alleged murder of an elderly man following an altercation over an unauthorised ... Read More


SATSA's 75th AGM celebrates platinum jubilee, honours women farmers

Kolkata, Feb. 8 -- The 75th Annual General Meeting of the State Agricultural Technologists Service Association (SATSA), West Bengal, was conducted on the February 7, 2026. The association is celebrat... Read More


HC issues guidelines on creche facility operated within premises

Kolkata, Feb. 8 -- The Calcutta High Court has notified guidelines regulating the use and operation of the creche facility within its premises, providing childcare support to parents and primary careg... Read More


Training for newspaper industry: Media workshops held for journalism students

Kolkata, Feb. 8 -- Against the backdrop of the newspaper industry facing serious challenges amid the rapid expansion of digital journalism, the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication of New A... Read More


Man arrested for raping the minor

Kolkata, Feb. 8 -- A youth was arrested by the cops of Narendrapur police station for alleged sexual torture of a minor on the pretext of marrying her. According to sources, the accused and the victi... Read More


Calcutta High Court upholds sentence of man for wife's murder

Kolkata, Feb. 8 -- The Calcutta High Court has upheld the life sentence of a man convicted of murdering his wife in 2015, holding that procedural lapses in the investigation cannot outweigh clear and ... Read More


ZSI discovers 2 new marine worm species off Bengal coast

Kolkata, Feb. 8 -- A research team from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), working with international experts, has discovered two new species of nereidid worms (polychaetes) from the coastal waters... Read More


ECI tailored 'arbitrary' Bengal SIR process: TMC

Kolkata, Feb. 8 -- Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sagarika Ghose accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of conducting West Bengal's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of elec... Read More