West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee today said that her government would not grant any SEZ status to IT major Infosys as sought by it in line with the Trinamool Congress stand on the issue.
Nearly 24 hours after Shanti Devi (name changed) died after being allegedly raped by two men, investigations revealed the cause of death — a metal rod inserted in her rectum.
Three people arrested for gangraping a 37-year-old Anglo-Indian woman in a moving car earlier this month have been sent to police custody till March 3 by a city court, police said on Sunday.
A differently abled woman passenger on a flight to Mumbai was yesterday offloaded by a private airline SpiceJet after the crew alleged it was not safe to have her on board.
Three young men, including a B Com third-year student of St Xavier's College, were on Sunday sent to police custody for allegedly raping a woman even as speculation is on that the Kolkata police commissioner may be shifted.
A Kolkata Police woman officer, credited in the media with solving a case of an Anglo-Indian woman's gangrape early this month, on Monday scotched talks of a division within the police ranks and shared the honours with her team.
Seeking to step up her campaign on the Farakka barrage broken sluice gates issue which she claimed allowed "excess" Ganges water flow to Bangladesh, West Bengal chief minister would meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on February 22 to flag her concern on the matter.
A Bengali actress and fiancee of Kader Khan, the prime accused in the alleged rape of an Anglo-Indian woman earlier this month, said on Tuesday she would help police in bringing the guilty to justice.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tomorrow, would discuss various issues ranging from the Teesta water treaty with Bangladesh to the controversial counter-terror intelligence hub, a Trinamool Congress leader said Tuesday.
The Park Street rape case has given rise to the first murmurs within the Trinamool Congress about Mamata Banerjee’s leadership. A case, which the police cracked in a matter of days, has turned into a crisis for the government, providing ammunition not only to the opposition Left Front, but also ally Congress. HT reports. Park street rape controversy
A fire broke out tonight inside a godown in the Tangra industrial estate of eastern Kolkata.
Thousands of Left Front workers on Thursday joined the funeral procession of former CPI-M MLA Pradip Tah, who was killed in an attack in Burdwan town of West Bengal.
"Let alone the inclusion of Mouzas of Jalpaiguri district, the very question of the formation of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) does not arise at all," said Birsa Tirkey, West Bengal State President of the Akhil Bharatiya Adivashi Vikash Parishad (ABAVP) in the all party meeting in Kolkata convened by the Joint Committee on GTA Territory.
Amidst strains between the two, Congress ally Trinamool Congress has said there was no question of compromise on the lokayukta provision, pension bill and FDI in retail if there was a move to pass them in the Budget Session of Parliament.
Seventy days after the December 9 fire-and-smoke tragedy that killed 91 patients and employees, a division bench of Calcutta high court granted bail to RS Agarwal, a director of Advanced Medicare and Research Institute today, denying it to four other co-applicants.