Siliguri/Alipurduar, June 19: The subdivisional hospitals in Kurseong, Kalimpong and Alipurduar have been hit by an acute shortage of test kits for Hepatitis-B in the last two months.

- Partha to answer questions of industrialists at closed-door session today
Will private investors get the government’s help in getting land for industry?

New Delhi, June 11: A physicist in Calcutta and a graduate student in Bangalore who jointly simulated the solar interior on computers have discovered that the Sun has a short memory — only about fi

Alipurduar, June 10: The railways have decided to saw off trees along the 167km-long tracks in the Dooars after two trains had back-to-back narrow escapes when trees fell on the line during a storm

Alipurduar, June 1: Six elephant calves that were rescued from various places and raised in Jaldapara would be permanently shifted to a national park in Uttar Pradesh for forest patrol.

Dankuni, May 28: Mamata Banerjee today said private investors “are staying away from Bengal because land is not available for them”.

If the Sundarbans are to be saved, ecological concerns must find their way into the debate on development, writes Uddalak Mukherjee

- Poverty-stricken parents demand ICDS classes be shut but want to take home food for kids

New Delhi, May 27: A first-of-its-kind institute to be set up in Calcutta to research arsenic contamination of ground water in eastern India will work with technical support from a German agency.

New Delhi, May 23: The raised petrol prices and the untouched diesel reflect a disturbing trend that is pushing consumers towards private diesel vehicles and hurting the country’s environment, heal