Sandip Sarkar

The Election Commission initially banned motorcycle movement in Bengal ahead of polls, citing concerns about "toughs and miscreants." Following public backlash, the Bengal CEO clarified the ban targets troublemakers, not the general public or commuters. Exemptions are provided for essential services, but citizens worry about increased travel costs and time.

The bodies of five more mountaineers were brought back to Uttarkashi from the avalanche-hit site, as rescue operations resumed at Draupadi ka Danda on Monday

As rescue operations resumed at Mount Draupadi ka Danda on Monday for the Nehru Institute Of Mountaineering (NIM) group hit by an avalanche on October 4, five more bodies were brought back to Uttarkashi town from the disaster-hit site.

Following in the footsteps of the Kolkata and Howrah civic bodies, the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation has started conducting random swab testing of residents inside the containment zones under its jurisdiction in Salt Lake and Rajarhat. On Tuesday, samples were collected and sent to Niced for testing.

Suman Banerjee, who manages both small screen and big screen with equal elan, is a happy soul now.

The city police on Monday arrested six youths for abduction of two scrap iron dealers and extracted ransom in lieu of their release.

Sourav Biswas, a climber from Kanchrapara, who had gone to Mount Draupadi ka Danda-II for the advanced training of Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, is still missing, along with another of the 41-member team.

A 26-year-old man, owner of a popular momo shop near Mudiali in Tollygunge, was found murdered inside his residence at Bijoygarh in Jadavpur on Thursday.

Another climber from New Barrackpore, who had gone missing, was identified as dead by the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering on Monday. He is the third of the four climbers from the city who went missing after an avalanche struck during the advanced training course conducted by NIM.

A lively interaction with well-known personalities from the field of films, music and journalism was in store for over 100 students at the Times NIE Newsmakers' Meet on Friday .

Two climbers from West Bengal, who went missing at the Mount Draupadi Ka Danda II during the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering's (NIM) training camp, have been confirmed as dead by the institute on Sunday morning.

Three miscreants on a high-speed motor bike snatched money brandishing pistol to one homeopath doctor in broad daylight. This incident happened at Batadanga near Kantabagan in Behrampore on Friday noon.

At Baruipur in South 24 Parganas that will go to polls on Tuesday, everyone has a tale to share. The Covid-induced lockdown and Amphan have left a mark in the district. From a software professional at Baruipur town, who is finding it difficult to pay his EMIs after a pay cut, to the litchi and guava farmers of Sikharbali in rural Baruipur, whose produce took a huge beating due to Amphan last year, everyone wants to forget 2020. Even, firecracker traders of Champahati faced the heat after the ban during Kali Puja.

Fifty-one days after Indian Railways suspended all long-distance, suburban and Metro services across the country, the first passenger train — a Rajdhani Express clone — will roll out from Howrah for New Delhi at 5.10pm on Tuesday. This is one of the 15 special trains announced by the Railway Board on Sunday. Though goods trains have been running during the lockdown and more recently Shramik Specials are ferrying migrant labourers across the country, these are the first trains for which people were able to book tickets on the IRCTC website on Monday.

A simple pacemaker implant turned nearly fatal for veteran CPI leader and parlia mentarian Gurudas Dasgupta after two leads (wires) from the implant perforated his heart and lungs, leaving the 81-year-old breathless and causing water accumulation in the lungs.

As life expectancy rises, Alzheimer's disease will become more widespread. India needs to be ready, warn experts.

Data by DIPP shows that new projects planned in 2014-15 expect to hire less than half the of workers compared to projects conceived a year ago.

The first time Jamini Roy met Rabindranath Tagore, on a "magical evening in Allahabad", the young artist was left speechless - it seemed like 'Jesus standing outside the closed door'. This is one of the many anecdotes of the legendary painter revealed in a one-of-its-kind book that will be launched in August.