WB panchayat polls on May 14, SC allows e-filing of nominations

The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the Calcutta high court order asking the West Bengal poll panel to accept nominations through e-mail for the rural polls, describing as worrying both the......

Bengal trawler capsize toll increases to 69

The death toll in the trawler capsize in Hooghly river shot up to 69 on Monday night with 28 bodies retrieved from the waters, even as search for 43 others missing was suspended for the night due......

18 drowned in trawler capsize in Bengal river

Eighteen people, 15 women and 3 girl children, were drowned and many were missing when an overcrowded trawler carrying about 100 pilgrims capsized in Hoogly river at Talpatti island in East......