Kolkata

Doctors say people's indifference, inadequate testing, lengthy election exercise, etc, have contributed to the rapid spread.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged the central government to facilitate free- of-cost vaccination for all.

Within hours of assuming office, the chief minister had on Wednesday transferred 29 top-level police officers, mostly those who were shifted by the Election Commission prior to the polls.

Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar expressed hope that the chief minister would "restore rule of law" in the state.

Also, coordinators have been appointed for arranging hearses for the deceased.

A News18 journalist shares a first-person account of the crisis that engulfed his family and the lessons he learnt from it.

The drive will happen before the Kolkata leg of IPL 2021 starts on May 9.

Banerjee said she has asked Mondal to intimate officials concerned that he would be able to appear before them only after the assembly elections are over.

Eleven persons were injured in a blast at a factory in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district on Saturday morning, police said. The incident happened around 7.30 am at an illegal leather unit at MalanchaPadmapukur in the Bhangore police station area,...

Abhijit Samanta, the BJP agent of booth number 107 in the Kamarhati assembly constituency, fell sick within an hour of the beginning of the polling.

Bengal joins 10 other states that have imposed similar restriction, the official said.

West Bengal Election 2021: Behala Purba has more women voters than men, possibly because of which the three main candidates are ladies.

The agitation was led by actor-turned-politician Srabanti Chatterjee, who is contesting from the Behala Paschim assembly constituency on a BJP ticket.

There has been traction in hotel bookings due to election-related travel by political party leaders and members of the media in Bengal.

While no one was named in the purported speech by Ghosh, known for his controversial comments in the past, most commentators took the comments to be directed at Banerjee.

It aims to counter the CM’s appeal amongst women voters; negates her charge that the BJP has no Bengali identity; promises a job for each family; puts a deadline on CAA; and woos two key vote banks.