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.
Four of the six independent MLAs participated in the Janata Dal (U) meeting of legislators and senior party functionaries today, indicating that the Nitish Kumar government has managed the support of the 122 MLAs required to prove its majority in the assembly.
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, when asked about the prospects of the JD(U) joining hands with the Congress, said on Monday it was premature to talk about it,
HT reports.

Modi, the man the BJP kept away from successive election campaigns in Bihar over the past eight years or more, reportedly on Nitish Kumar's insistence, won't be in the state for another four months.
Rai Atul Krishna reports.
Modi selected, but it's tough time for BJP
A day after walking out of NDA, JD(U) president Sharad Yadav today said his party could consider coming back to the alliance if veteran BJP leader L K Advani gets back at the helm of the party.
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.
A Panchayat samiti member from BJP was killed by unidentified miscreants when he was returning home in Malda district
Faced with dwindling cash reserves, the Mamata Banerjee government is set to raise Rs. 2,000 crore from the market via the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) tomorrow, thus taking the net borrowing in the current financial year to Rs. 4,000 crore.
Partha Bhadra, a small-time businessman, rang in his son’s third birthday on Sunday with a cake topped with three candles and a handful of fellow fathers for company. But the ones conspicuously missing from the quiet celebrations were his son and wife.