Sagar Island, shaped by the Bay of Bengal's turbulent tides, is famous for fish, particularly the dried "shutki" that adds a ...

Sagar Island (WB), Jan 7 (PTI) In the wake of the ongoing crisis in Bangladesh, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday called for all-round surveillance on land, air and water to ...

Kolkata: Around 350 workers are now rushing against time to fill 63,000 cubic metres of earth and reclaim land at Sagar Island before chief minister Mamata Banerjee's visits to the island on Jan 6 ...

Tidal surges now isolate parts of Sagar Island, south of Ghoramara in the Hugli River. This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was when the body of a long ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who will be visiting Sagar Island in South 24 Parganas district on Monday (January 6, 2024) to oversee the preparedness for the annual Gangasagar Mela ...

She will felicitate fishermen on Monday while she will be visiting Sagar Island in South 24 Parganas district to oversee the preparedness for the annual Gangasagar Mela. The official further said ...

Lakhs of people visit Sagar island to take a dip at the confluence of river Ganga with the Bay of Bengal on the occasion of Makar Sankranti. The claims of one crore pilgrims arriving on Sagar ...

A family of pilgrims from Uttar Pradesh arrives on the beach at Sagar Island on Tuesday Photographs by the author Climate change has left a significant imprint on the 2025 edition of Gangasagar Mela ...

She also accused the central government of not keeping its promise of building a bridge over a river connecting Sagar Island with the mainland. "We have done everything for Gangasagar. The central ...

It is an annual observance that takes place at the Sagar Island or ‘Sagardweep’ in the state of West Bengal. Hindu devotees in thousands of number gather at this place to take a holy dip in Ganga ...

There is a high probability that the fishermen, who were arrested between October and November last year for intruding into Bangladesh's waters, will be given some compensation by the chief ...