West Bengal Governor C. V. Ananda Bose has sent a communique to the Ministry of Home Affairs giving updates on the current situation in Murshidabad, which has been on the boil for the last few days after protests against the Waqf (Amendment) Act.
A 21-year-old youth, missing from Bhagalpur district of Bihar for over 15 years now, was reunited with his mother by authorities in West Bengal through the efforts of amateur radio operators.
The Border Security Force (BSF) foiled attempts to smuggle a single-shotter country-made pistol and 22 kg of Ganja across the Indo-Bangladesh Border (IBB) in separate incidents in the North 24-Parganas and Nadia districts of West Bengal on Saturday.
Malda Merchants’ Chamber of Commerce has formally appealed for the Geographical Indication (GI) registration of two popular varieties of brinjal—Ashapur Brinjal and Nawabganj Brinjal—uniquely cultivated in the Chanchal and Old Malda blocks of the district.
Several petitioners in the (WBSSC) recruitment scam sent contempt notice to top brasses of the state education department, including its principal secretary Vinod Kumar, commissioner Arup Sengupta, WBSSC chairman Siddhartha Majumder, (WBBSE) president Ramanuj Ganguly seeking to know why the concerned authorities are allowing teachers, whose appointments have been invalidated by the Supreme Court, to attend schools.
Pointing to the alarming situation of dengue in the state, Suvendu Adhikari in his letter wrote, "At a time when you are choking in the national capital, the people of West Bengal are tormented by mosquitos.
Regarding the matter, the state's Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) had convened an all-party meeting earlier on Wednesday.
The body of Habibul Sheikh, a victim from West Bengal in the Morbi cable bridge collapse in Gujarat, was on Tuesday brought back to his ancestral residence at Purbasthali in East Burdwan district.
A day after the Morbi bridge collapse which killed 141 persons in Gujarat, the West Bengal Public Works Department (PWD) on Monday sought a detailed report on the condition of all the cable bridges in the state.
The nine-month-old male calf was separated from its herd. The calf was roaming in forests of Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary and adjoining forests of Kurseong division in the Darjeeling district.
