On the run for the last four months, former CPM MP Laxman Seth was finally arrested near Mumbai on Saturday.
With the President’s assent to the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) Bill on March 7, 2011, a gazette notification will be published on March 14.
The Railway Budget 2012 emerged as a major damper for Darjeeling with the world heritage site Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) failing to feature.
A day after the suspected polio case was reported in Baruipur in South 24 Parganas district, the state health administration along with the World Health Organisation (WHO) has woken up to strengthen the surveillance programme in Indrapara village and adjoining areas.
The Trinamool Congress has decided not to support the Congress nominee in West Bengal for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls, state Congress chief Pradip Bhattacharya Tuesday said.
Barely two weeks after World Health Organisation (WHO) declared India as a polio-free nation, an 18-month-old female child was admitted to a state-run hospital in Kolkata with suspected polio on Monday. Soumen Datta & Subhendu Maiti report.
A Kolkata Police constable who was injured in a clash over property dispute near Airport area in neighbouring North 24 Parganas district on Thursday succumbed to his injuries today, police sources said.
Top woman Maoist Suchitra Mahato, who was suspected to have been with rebel leader Kishenji when he was killed last year, surrendered today before West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee.
Seven persons were killed and 70 others were injured when a bus overturned near Ausgram in Burdwan district in the early hours on Saturday.
Raising the charge that the Centre was not financially assisting her government once again, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee today said that she was running a ruined state which none would have bought even at an auction.
Ruling out any possibility of grouping of anti-Congress, anti-BJP chief ministers, Congress Saturday tried to downplay the invitations extended by Samajwadi Party and Akali Dal to West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee for their swearing-in ceremonies, terming them "political courtesy".
The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) made it clear that the Government will have to settle for an interim nominated arrangement for the Darjeeling Hills till the area to be incorporated in the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) is finalised.
Encouraged by its performance in the just-held Manipur Assembly elections, the Trinamool Congress said it was moving closer to being recognised as a national party.
The Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) Bill for setting up a new hill council in the Darjeeling hills, today received presidential assent. Amitava Banerjee reports.