The AMRI authorities have decided to move court against Mamata Bannerjee Government for stonewalling its attempt to reopen the Dhakuria unit, shut down after a fire incident claimed 91 lives on December 9, 2011.
The Darjeeling Police on Monday arrested one Mani Kumar Biswakarma from Panighatta under the Kurseong sub division for his alleged links with the Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan.
In the shadow of the Saradha Group Ponzi scam, West Bengal's Mamata Banerjee government stepped into its third year in office on Monday, with the chief minister claiming the state has outperformed the national average in key sectors.
The police in Darjeeling on Sunday busted an Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) ring that had been operating in northern West Bengal and was passing on information on troop movements and army and airforce installations to their co-conspirators in Nepal. Amitava Banerjee reports.
West Bengal income tax (IT) department will soon have an idea of the amount of black money parked in the Saradha group, after noticing that hundreds of investors had claimed fixed deposits ranging between Rs. 5 lakh and Rs. 30 lakh in the company.
Class 3 student Babi Joardar, who was mercilessly beaten up by his teacher two days ago at a school in Nirdeshkhali Natupara village of South 24 Parganas, succumbed to his injuries in Kolkata on Friday morning. HT reports.
Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra shot off a second letter to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on Tuesday requesting urgent intervention in implementing recommendations of the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC), which had asked the state government to provide compensation to him and his neighbour Subrata Sengupta in the 2012 cartoon incident involving chief minister Mamata Banerjee and former railway minister Mukul Roy.
The Territorial Army's first woman jawan, Shanti Tigga, was found hanging inside a hospital cabin in Jalpaiguri district today, four days after allegedly being kidnapped and left tied blindfold.
The spectre of death in the aftermath of the ponzi scheme scam continued to haunt West Bengal with yet another agent found hanging near his home at Shantipur in Nadia district today, taking the toll to 13.
The vexed issue of West Bengal panchayat polls has finally had an “amicable settlement” — which gives more time to the Mamata Banerjee government to prepare for the polls and upholds her demand for the use of state police for security.
Debjani Mukherjee, the closest aide of Saradha boss Sudipta Sen, was sacked as director a year ago as she questioned the way the company collected funds, her lawyer said at a press meet yesterday.
Saradha group chairman Sudipta Sen and two others were today remanded to nine days police custody in fresh cases and 14 days judicial remand in earlier cases in the alleged multi-crore Ponzi scheme scam.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee today sought the opinion of her Facebook fans on the Supreme Court's observation that the CBI has become 'a caged parrot speaking in master's voice'.
Seven people, including four policemen were injured when a police jeep collided head on against a public bus in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal today.
The West Bengal Ponzi scheme fiasco claimed one more life, after an agent of a company, who had consumed poison on Sunday night, succumbed at a Kolkata hospital on Tuesday morning.