Data from the past six years shows a consistent shortfall in actual exports, with only 15–25 per cent of the permitted ...

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee increased Durga Puja grants to ₹1.10 lakh for 40,000 committees, waiving taxes.

Almost every year, we fail to consume the full quantity of hilsa fish due to the reason that export permits are time-bound.

Landing in Dhaka by air, looking down at the city from the plane window, your first impression is likely to be that you are ...

Kolkata: From annual Martyr’s Day programme, Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) Supremo Mamata Banerjee stated that ...

Some BJP leaders in West Bengal are worried that Trinamool's labelling of the party as ‘anti-Bengali’ would have an impact.

Nephew Abhishek Banerjee vowed to put the BJP “in a detention camp democratically in 2026” as the Trinamool Congress raised ...

Wherever I go, I will join a march to condemn bhasha-santrash (violence against language). If everything goes as planned, I ...

Every monsoon season, for about two months, a small fish called Pulasa, which swims upstream into the distributaries of the mighty Godavari river from the Bay of Bengal to spawn and breed, creates a ...

Kolkata's hilsa lovers are turning to Myanmar and Gujarat varieties as doubts rise over the arrival of the prized Padma hilsa ...

It was the best of times for us aspiring to join the IAS, it was perhaps the worst of times for India since Independence.

Although Portland offers a rich variety of cultural festivals, some observances still fly under the radar — such as South ...