With her government drawing flak over the perceived slide in law and order and the continuing spiral in incidents of crime against women, chief minister Mamata Banerjee is set to top her campaign pitch with a pledge to arrest the grim trend and ensure better security for women.
Victims also accuse leader of threatening them after they refused to give land.
The Sikkim government has rubbished news reports that claimed it had been dragging it's feet in sending a resolution passed in its assembly on the formation of Gorkhaland to the Union government.
Bengal’s university teachers have threatened to go on a 24-hour hunger strike on July 19 if the state government does not heed their demands for an upgrade in salary and added benefits. If that fails, they are ready to go on an indefinite strike.
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Many district SPs and police commissionerates didn’t file reports on money collected as vehicular penalty.
Bengal tops in crimes against women but the state is more successful in keeping its prisoners behind bars.
The state education department has come up with a bagful of gifts to attract students to engineering courses.
A 17-year-old girl jumped to her death from the fourth tower of South City, the tallest residential building in the city, yesterday evening.
Police are under pressure to go slow. The locals fear for their women after the rape and murder of my sister: Rape victim's kin
Around 12,000 students get admitted to colleges affiliated to the university every year.
Locals of Kirtipur, where Kamduni falls, say goons have shifted to TMC, which has won 11 out of 12 gram panchayat seats uncontested.
Mamata Banerjee’s belated visit yesterday to Kamduni in Barasat — where a 20-year-old college girl was raped and murdered unleashing waves of protests across the state — triggered another major controversy when she labelled protesters who asked what took her ten days to visit the village as CPI(M) supporters.
Climb Mount Everest and all that you’ll get is a homeguard’s job on a paltry monthy salary of Rs. 9,700, Soumen Datta reports.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s belated visit to Kamduni on Monday triggered another major controversy when she rebuked protestors — who were asking her what took her 10 days to visit the village — as CPI(M) supporters. HT reports.