At least nine infants have died at the Malda Medical College Hospital, which witnessed many crib deaths last year.
Ten people, including one bookie,have been arrested by a special team of Kolkata Police from Ultadanga area in Kolkata for being allegedly involved in a cricket betting racket.
An assistant sub inspector (ASI) of police, posted at Bathanaha police station of north Bihar’s Sitamarhi district, was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly having unnatural sex with a nine-year-old boy.
Two persons were arrested on Wednesday in connection with the alleged gang rape a 22-year-old college student on Mandar hill in Banka district of south-eastern Bihar, about 45 kilometres from Bhagalpur, late Tuesday.
The AMRI authorities have decided to move court against Mamata Bannerjee Government for stonewalling its attempt to reopen the Dhakuria unit, shut down after a fire incident claimed 91 lives on December 9, 2011.
A row has erupted over the handcuffing of an Odisha Opposition party leader, accused in a case of financial irregularities.
A bridegroom was shot dead by unidentified assailants in a Bihar village late Tuesday, minutes before he was to be married, police said today.
US ambassador to India Nancy J Powell on Tuesday told Kolkata’s industrialists West Bengal was not the first location that came to mind when talking about business and investment.
Controversial former RJD MP Pappu Yadav, 51, who was exonerated recently by the Patna High Court in CPI(M) leader Ajit Sarkar’s murder case, was released from Beur Central Jail on Tuesday.
The contest at the Maharajganj Lok Sabha constituency, where a bypoll is scheduled on June 2, will be triangular.
Even as intense heat wave has thrown normal life out of gear in the last few days in Odisha, the state government has decided to provide umbrellas to differently-abled, widows, destitutes and old persons to tide over the summer.
Getting murkier by minutes, Jharkhand State Cricket Association (JSCA) was on boil on Tuesday over sudden popping up of about 50 lady voters in the voting list finally issued after much demands and complaints.
Controversial former RJD MP Pappu Yadav today came out of the jail in Patna after being acquitted by the Patna high court in CPI(M) leader Ajit Sarkar murder case for lack of evidence.
The police have arrested five persons who had allegedly gang raped a woman in Odisha’s Jharsuguda district.

The Darjeeling Police on Monday arrested one Mani Kumar Biswakarma from Panighatta under the Kurseong sub division for his alleged links with the Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan.