On April 3, the Supreme Court annulled the appointments of over 25,000 teaching and non-teaching staff recruited through the 2016 West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) examinations. Minister ...

Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods struck up a friendship in the late ’90s and early 2000s, a time when Woods was making his mark as golf’s next big thing. Tiger was becoming as dominant on the course as ...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee will chair “Synergy”, a business meet in Siliguri on Monday, bringing together trade bodies from eight districts of north Bengal in an effort to boost investment in the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Officials of the South Bengal Frontier of the Border Security Force (BSF) have appealed to residents in border areas to report any information related to gold smuggling through the BSF’s ...

On Friday, 16 May, Tiger Brands, South Africa’s largest food producer, announced the sale of its deciduous fruit business, Langeberg & Ashton Foods, to a consortium led by local fruit growers ...

In a significant move aimed at strengthening its grassroots presence ahead of the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) has announced a large-scale ...

The act categorises wildlife into six schedules. The Bengal tiger is listed under Schedule I, the highest-protection tier with the most severe punishments. Rajasthan has five tiger reserves, including ...

A First Information Report (FIR) has been filed after a video clip showed a man approaching and touching tiger cubs at the Ranthambore National Park near Rajasthan’s Sawai Madhopur. The undated video ...

The Supreme Court has ordered the West Bengal government to pay 25 per cent of pending dearness allowance (DA) dues to state government employees. In a setback for the Mamata Banerjee government ...

The map of Dhaka, published in 1859, marked the Ramna area in two parts: Ramna and Racecourse field, which is Suhrawardy Udyan now, according to Historian Muntasir Mamoon’s book. The Ramna area gained ...