Tajpur and Haldia: How coastal development is impacting fishing in West Bengal

A deep-sea port is to be constructed in Tajpur and eight more jetties are to come up in an already industrialised Haldia, but no official has …

Price hike: Bengal’s hot potato

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee would do anything to check a price rise, even if that makes potatoes vanish or takes buses off the road

High court declares Singur land Act unconstitutional

Tata Motors welcomes verdict; Mamata says people’s choice will prevail

Supreme Court questions Tata on Singur land acquired for Nano plant

Court directs Tata Motors to make clear its stand on its rights over the land after it chose to shift plant site to Gujarat

“Come elections, our forests are looted”

Angry villagers from the hotbed of political violence told Sayantan Bera, the day a new government took oath in West Bengal

Kolkata evicts ecological refugees

Seven hundred squatters occupying prime land rendered homeless; activists demanding their rehabilitation branded Maoists

Panel submits draft of West Bengal land use policy

Recommends ban on government land acquisition for industrial use

Kolkata protests blanket ban on cycling

Police extends ban to 174 roads, extracts fines from riders illegally

Why infant deaths continue in north Bengal

Over 350 infants have died in spurts at the Malda district hospital in the past few years; malnourishment, overcrowding and almost non-existent …

Panchayat polls in West Bengal in July

Bitter fight between election commission and state government ends; questions over bureaucratic interference in Panchayat matters remain