Congress will go it alone in the Panchayat elections in West Bengal, slated for next year, and field candidates for all the 61,000 seats.

Eastern India Ball Bearing Merchants Asociation requested the West Bengal government to allot land for an industrial spares park in Howrah.

Lower rainfall in the Northeast and North Bengal might lead to a lesser tea output this year.

An unprecedented drought-like situation and high temperature in the Darjeeling hils is posing a threat to the tea industry in north Bengal,...