Citizen assembly, organised by environmentalists from Calcutta and Melbourne, was attended by environmental experts, ...

Samir Kumar Jana, the ruling Trinamool Congress legislator from Patharpratima, who rushed to the spot in the Sunderbans in South 24 Parganas district , said it was a licensed factory ...

The incident occurred around 9.30pm at the residence of Chandrakanta Banik in the Patharpratima area of Sunderbans police district. A huge stockpile of firecrackers caught fire and exploded, reducing ...

A gas cylinder blast in a house at Dholahat in West Bengal's Pathar Pratima has claimed eight lives, including four children.

The upcoming building at Canning railway station is set to carry a slice of Bengal’s glorious past. A chair, used by the ...

The death toll from the gas cylinder blast at a house at Dholahat in West Bengal's Pathar Pratima has risen to eight after one more person succumbed to injuries on Tuesday morning, police said.

During pre-colonisation days, [they were all] probably a part of the Sunderbans, there must have been mangroves up on the edges of the Hooghly River,” Mr. D’Andrea said.

Banaskantha collector Mihir Patel said that the explosion occurred at the factory around 9:45am, causing the entire RCC slab ...

On Tuesday morning, investigators recovered cracker-making spices and from a room adjacent to the destroyed house, further ...

A firecracker unit explosion and subsequent fire claimed the lives of eight family members in Patharpratima, South 24 ...