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East Midnapore: Fire guts several shops at Ramnagar Bazar

Kolkata, Dec. 26 -- Several shops at Ramnagar Bazar in East Midnapore were gutted after a fire broke out in the early hours of Friday. The blaze erupted around 3 am at a sweetmeat shop in the marketp... Read More


Metro to increase services on Dec 28

Kolkata, Dec. 26 -- Metro Railway will operate special services on the Blue Line (Dakshineswar-Shahid Khudiram) and Green Line (Howrah Maidan-Salt Lake Sector V) on Sunday, December 28, to facilitate ... Read More


Services hit in Blue Line after passenger jumps in front of Metro

Kolkata, Dec. 26 -- Metro services on the Blue Line (Dakshineswar-Shahid Khudiram) were disrupted on Friday evening after a passenger jumped in front of an approaching Dakshineswar-bound train at Neta... Read More


High Court restores Kolkata Police counsellor's job

Kolkata, Dec. 26 -- The Calcutta High Court has held that police authorities cannot restrain a counsellor attached to the Family Counselling Centre at Kolkata Police headquarters from performing her d... Read More


Digha hotels nearly full ahead of New Year

Kolkata, Dec. 26 -- Digha, the popular beach town in East Midnapore, is already overflowing with tourists ahead of the New Year festivities, turning the seaside destination into a bustling hub of visi... Read More


Abhishek flags attack on Bengal migrants in BJP-ruled states

Kolkata, Dec. 26 -- Amid repeated incidents of attacks on Bengali-speaking migrant labourers in BJP-ruled states, Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee shared a video c... Read More


Trinamool brands BJP's 'Beti Bachao' a facade

Kolkata, Dec. 26 -- The Trinamool Congress (TMC), on Friday, accused the BJP of failing to protect women and instead shielding the accused. Referring to BJP's "Beti Bachao Beti Padhao" campaign, the ... Read More


Actress, ex-BJP candidate Parno Mittra joins Trinamool

KOLKATA, Dec. 26 -- Bengali actress Parno Mittra joined TMC on Friday ahead of the 2026 assembly elections. Mittra, who had joined the BJP in 2019 and even contested the 2021 assembly election from Ba... Read More


SIR: WBCS officers' body expresses concern over deletion of names

Kolkata, Dec. 26 -- The WBCS (Executive) Officers' Association has written a letter to the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Bengal, expressing concern over the deletion of names of many voters from th... Read More


Body of lynched migrant Jewel Sheikh reaches Murshidabad

Kolkata, Dec. 26 -- The body of migrant labourer Jewel Sheikh, who was allegedly lynched to death in Odisha's Sambalpur, arrived at his residence in Murshidabad on Friday. Local leaders of the Trinamo... Read More