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

“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

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

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

Panchayat polls in West Bengal in July

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

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 …

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 …

COVID-19: Is West Bengal's real tally higher than what’s put out

Mamata Banerjee govt not testing enough, according to Opposition, experts

Sundarbans, several areas of Kolkata incommunicado 24 hours after Amphan

Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit West Bengal and Odisha on May 22 

South Bengal ravaged by Cyclone Amphan

Around 10-12 people may have died and property worth a lakh crore rupees destroyed, Mamata Banerjee tells reporters 

Cyclone Amphan’s damage to Sundarbans’ wildlife not known yet

People dependent on the mangrove forest such as honey collectors and fishermen will be affected too

COVID-19 migrants: West Bengal has mostly failed to keep promises

The state government must go beyond the mere promises of the Centre and render actual help to the state’s people

Plant 50 million mangroves in the Sundarbans? Improbable, say experts

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee had decided on the plantation to compensate for plants lost during Cyclone Amphan

COVID-19 lockdown in Bengal: Experts claim containment strategy failed

Health experts claimed that the state’s failure to impose containment norms is why COVID-19 cases continue to be on the rise  

Swasthya Sathi will now include Bengal’s entire population: Mamata

However, experts feel direct free healthcare delivery for all should be the goal

West Bengal polls: What’s in it for Adivasis and forest dwellers?

For political parties, tribal votes matter more than including tribal concerns in their political agenda.  

West Bengal staring at COVID-19 spike by end of election season, warn experts

Kolkata and North 24 Parganas worst-hit in ongoing surge of infections  

Viral campaigns: COVID-19 norms openly flouted at political rallies in West Bengal amid surge

Large crowds packed tents, narrow lanes in West Bengal as India went from one grim COVID-19 milestone to another in April

Modi’s COVID-19 bungle tilted Bengal more towards Mamata

COVID-19 nightmare enveloping India and West Bengal in the last 3 phases of the state’s elections helped TMC win, experts say

Bengal’s women voted fully conscious of their gender, socio-political existence: Experts

Mamata Banerjee’s persona and increasing awareness led Bengal’s women to vote as independent individuals, experts said

Bengal to draft quack doctors in fight against COVID-19

Patients in rural, peri-urban areas often depend on quack doctors for initial medical needs

Cyclone Yaas: Bengal to double number of disaster shelters to avoid COVID-19 spread

Cyclone Yaas is predicted to strike Bengal, which is recording 20,000 COVID-19 cases daily, on May 26