A 23-year-old who was in a relationship with a married woman, 28, in West Bengal died by suicide on Thursday after her family caught him in the house and locked him up in a room, prompting his ...

The West Bengal Assembly on Wednesday (March 19, 2025) passed a Bill to allow women to work in bars. The West Bengal Finance Bill, 2025, was tabled by MoS Chandrima Bhattacharya in the Assembly.

Dilip Ghosh on Friday threatened to "choke" a woman protester confronting the former West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief over inauguration of a newly-constructed road in Kharagpur.

Wednesday’s Bill said the Bengal Excise Act, 1909 was being amended “to remove the prohibition on employment of women in ON category liquor shops as such provision is discriminatory.” ...

The West Bengal State Assembly passed a bill on Wednesday permitting women to work in bars. Minister of State Chandrima Bhattacharya tabled the West Bengal Finance Bill, 2025 in the assembly.

which includes key amendments to the Bengal Excise Act, 1909, most notably lifting the prohibition on women working in bars, a provision previously deemed discriminatory. The bill, tabled by ...

The impact has been described as most severe for women in rural areas and low-income communities, including Sunderbans in West Bengal, where the effects of climate change are often amplified by ...

Kolkata: West Bengal topped the list in MSME manufacturing industries and also recorded the highest percentage of women-headed establishments in the country, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on ...

which includes key amendments to the Bengal Excise Act, 1909, most notably lifting the prohibition on women working in bars, a provision previously deemed discriminatory. The bill, tabled by ...

A mother-in-law's name mixup is not sitting right with one woman. In a forum post on the ... and I could’ve burst into tears,” she wrote about the incident. “I held it together until we ...

Long before social media and emails, artists of the Bengal School of Art in Shantiniketan used painted postcards to stay connected. Between the 1940s and 1960s, they exchanged intimate messages ...

YouTube and woodworking books were Ms Kotnala's only guides until she joined a women's shed in Sydney where she learnt how to use power tools. But then she moved to Canberra, where she found no ...