Kolkata

Blasts were heard in the slum which police suspect to be of gas cylinders at the houses on fire, officials said.

Speaking at a public meeting in Howrah, Ghosh said the TMC had been pursuing "politics of appeasement", but the party did nothing to uplift the financial status of Muslims.

The BJP has no right to celebrate Swamiji's birthday, Trinamool Congress MP from Diamond Harbour Abhishek Banerjee said while addressing a rally in south Kolkata.

The Science and Technology faculties of Calcutta University (CU) will resume the laboratory work for the PG students in accordance with the COVID-19 protocols and its associated social distancing norms.

The BJP and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) came down heavily on MP Kalyan Banerjee for hurting religious sentiments of the Hindus.

During a virtual meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief ministers of various states on the vaccination process starting January 16, Banerjee enquired whether or not the states have to purchase the vaccines for people other than those in th...

A minor fire broke out in an underconstruction building in central Kolkata on Saturday, fire officials said. The fire, that broke out on the second floor of the building located beside Statesman House on Chowringhee Square around 9.45 pm, was doused by...

District Magistrate Vijay Bharti, who inspected the area on Thursday, said the wall, if built, could hinder people's movement along the route.

Poets, singers, painters and several others took part in a protest to express their support to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on the row over his family being in "illegal" possession of land at Visva Bharati.

The prime minister lashed out at the West Bengal chief minister during a televised address, accusing her government of "destroying" the state and depriving its over 70 lakh farmers of benefits from the Centre's flagship PM-KISAN scheme under which Rs 6,00...

Shah, who visited Visva-Bharati in Shantiniketan earlier in the day, paid floral tribute to Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore at Rabindra Bhavan on the university campus.

"Unless and until I am satisfied that the resignation is voluntary and genuine, it is not possible for me to accept the same in the light of the provisions of the Constitution of India and the rules of procedure and conduct of business in West Bengal Legi...

The ruling Trinamool Congress told him that the use of 'cheap, Bahubali type language by the BJP' was challenging the authority of the poll body, while saffron party flagged the issue of names of dead people figuring in voter lists, sources said.

The constitutional head of the state expressed his views on Twitter on Thursday attaching a copy of his letter to the chief minister. The governor also said that it was "high time" that the "long overdue" interaction between him and the chief minister tak...

Senior Bengal minister Sovandeb Chattopadhyay said under the BJP dispensation at the Centre, corporates are getting sops, even as common people continue to suffer.

In the last 10 years, the TMC government has failed on all fronts -- economic growth, industry, health, education, security of women and creation of jobs, the BJP said.