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Rapes are a common affair in Bengal, admits minister

The admission comes at a time when Mamata Banerjee and DGP Naparajit Mukherjee described Kamduni's rape and murder as an isolated incident

West Bengal: Poll-ready despite uncertainties

Hurdle: SEC will not get to know before Monday whether or not the state can manage required number of security personnel

Record forms sold, so get ready for fierce competition

Getting into the city’s best colleges will be extremely tough this year, with the number of applicants touching a record high.

Trinamool vs Trinamool

Although the Saradha scam and the deteriorating law and order situation have dealt a blow to the Mamata Banerjee government’s image, a bigger worry for the CM, ahead of the forthcoming panchayat polls and next year’s Lok Sabha elections, is friction withinn the party.

List OF 423 Trinamool ' observers' to keep watch over official poll observers

Unbelievable as this may sound, the Mamata Banerjee administration has drawn up a list of 423 government employees, most of them lower and upper division clerks and members of the Trinamool-backed employees union. Although not official, their job: to keep watch over the watchdog of the panchayat elections — the 400strong army of poll observers.

Kolkata HC turns down plea for CBI probe into Saradha

Upheld: Sudipta’s plea of investigating Chitgate by a single agency accepted

Keeping her rural pack intact a big challenge for Didi

One can always argue that the outburst at Kamduni village in Barasat is an isolated incident and a headache only for the local administration. But it's a definite warning to chief minister Mamata Banerjee that her rural folk will not remain silent if things take a turn for the worse.

Women’s security to top Mamata's rural election campaign

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.

Casteist remark lands TMC leader in trouble

Victims also accuse leader of threatening them after they refused to give land.

Rallying point: Park Street rape victim takes to the streets

What started off as another protest march against rape quickly turned into a platform for revelation.

Cutting across political divide, intellectuals unite

Plan stir against the spate of rapes & deteriorating law and order situation in West Bengal

Writer's women employees join protest bandwagon

Women employees at the state secretariat, Writers’ Buildings, put up a demonstration against growing cases of rape and atrocities against women in the state.

Students not keen on joining politics in colleges

Following the death of SFI leader Sudipta Gupta and sub-inspector Tapas Chowdhury — both resulting from campus politics — not many Class 12 passouts are willing to join politics in colleges.

Seating capacity at Salt Lake stadium to be brought down

 Salt Lake stadium is set to undergo renovation ahead of under-17 FIFA World Cup 2017; seating capacity is going to be reduced.

Manish Gupta testifies before July 21 panel

Power minister Manish Gupta distanced himself from the report he sent to the Centre on the police firing on July 21, 1993 that killed 13 Youth Congress workers in the city while deposing before the July 21 commission yesterday.
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