Tempers are again rising in the hills of West Bengal, with the pro-Gorkhaland Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) threatening to renew its agitation for a separate state if a proposed hill body was not formed by March 27.
Two people were arrested and drugs worth Rs 8 crore were seized from West Bengal's Murshidabad district on Tuesday following questioning of two people earlier taken into custody from a heroin making unit, police said.
West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan has assured the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) delegation that he would be meeting President Pratibha Patil on February 15 in Delhi and will request for early implementation of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA).
A huge quantity of explosives stocked by Maoists apparently to disturb the panchayat election process was seized by security personnel in Odisha's Malkangiri district today.
Three months after a laptop snag killed an MNC employee, another man in Kolkata was found dead close to his burnt laptop in his bedroom, police said on Sunday. Asphyxiation is suspected to be the cause of death.
The Trinamool Congress today refused to comment on the special CBI court's order declining to make home minister P Chidambaram an accused in the 2G spectrum case, but added that the guilty should be punished.
Infant deaths have returned to haunt West Bengal with 19 babies dying in Bankura and Malda districts in the last two days.
The Darjeeling Rangeet Valley Passenger Ropeway in Darjeeling was reopened for the public today after more than 8 year freeze.
Reiterating the March 27 deadline, the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) on Wednesday proclaimed that if the government fails to form GTA within the above date, the GJM would launch an agitation for a separate state of Gorkhaland.
Although she felt "betrayed" by the Congress leadership many a time, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee describes the late Rajiv Gandhi as "the leader of our hearts" and Pranab Mukherjee as her brother.
The kins of those who were killed by the Maoists might get job in government offices. Though the state government had not officially declared that yet, but had asked the district administration to send them the data of the families mentioning the academic qualification and age of the family members.
Pakistani politician Imran Khan today said that Anna Hazare's crusade against corruption would be more effective if the Gandhian joins politics.
In further embarrassment to the Mamata Banerjee government, a 53-year-old farmer of Burdwan committed suicide on Saturday.
The minister of state for health, Chandrima Bhattacharya, however, claimed on Saturday afternoon that the state government had achieved a 3% drop in the infant mortality rate since the Trinamool Congress government came to power.
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee's political memoir Parivartan is expected to hit the stands soon. HT gives you a peek into the 190-page political memoir that chronicles her journey, betrayals and victories.