The West Bengal State Election Commission, after meeting with various political parties and representatives of the state government, selected April 23 as the extended day for filing nominations for the coming Panchayat polls, a senior official said on Saturday.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday accused the CPI-M, Congress and the BJP of joining hands to "deliberately delay" the panchayat polls in the state and claimed they were shying away from the election because of their lack of public connect.

West Bengal has become the first state to opt out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's healthcare plan that was unveiled in the Union Budget this year.

A day after West Bengal went ga ga claiming to have received the official recognition that the spongy, syrupy rosogolla originated in its territory, the Geographical Indication (GI) registry on Wednesday made it clear that the tag was given only for "Banglar rasogolla".

A brutal picture of an elephant calf humiliated by fire in West Bengal has bagged the Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Awards of the year on Wednesday.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Saturday that her government would thwart any plans to create division among the people during the upcoming religious festivals.

A class 11 student in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district was found hanging lifeless from the ceiling fan of her house after she was scolded by her elder brother for spending excessive time on Facebook, family members said on Saturday.

The Gorkhaland Movement Coordination Committee on Monday accused the West Bengal government of trying to create a rift among the parties that are its members by selectively inviting a few of them for the August 29 all party meeting in Kolkata on the north Bengal hills unrest.

Country's oldest cinematographer Ramanda Sengupta, who worked with legends like Jean Renoir, Ritwik Ghatak, and Mrinal Sen, died in Kolkata on Wednesday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said in a statement.

The ongoing West Bengal floods have claimed 152 lives and caused losses to the tune of Rs 14,000 crore in 11 districts of the state, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Monday after visiting three northern districts where large areas continued to be submerged.