Ali was produced at the Chief Metropolitan Court at Bankshall court this morning.

There are at least 270 political prisoners in Bengal

The Bharatiya Janata Party has offered a Lok Sabha ticket to former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly to contest next year's general elections.

The heritage property was restored at a cost of more than Rs 10 crore to its original glory in 2010.

While the BJP has already offered him a seat from the state, West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee chief Pradip Bhattacharya Sunday visited his house at Behala

Named Chetna Yatra, the activists say the rally is a step towards creating public awareness about AAP in West Bengal.

K D Singh and V K Singh were addressing a state level convention organised by members of the Punjabi community in Rohtak.

The warden of Presidency Correctional Home has been sent a showcause notice after he was frisked and found to be allegedly carrying Rs 10,000 for someone inside the prison Saturday.

There has been intense speculation about the exact purpose of Mamata Banerjee''s visit to New Delhi last week.

Calcutta Tramways Company celebrated the centenary of Rabindranath Tagore winning the Nobel prize by offering special rides in a tram named Gitanjali.

Refusing to step down as chairman of the West Bengal Human Rights Commission, retired Supreme Court judge A K Ganguly Monday claimed he had become a victim of circumstances.

Asked not to light ovens and cook food on pavements, vendors have begun shutting shop

The apex court is already seized of a bunch of matters over validity of Section 66A.

The Trinamool Congress on Monday saw a fresh batch of leaders and workers from other political parties joining it in the presence of the party''s all-India general secretary, Mukul Roy.

While the first home will accommodate 100 elderly sex workers , the second one, for their daughters, will house 50 girls.

Mukherjee had gone to Washington to seek funds from the World Bank to implement projects like supply of arsenic-free water to the rural areas.

Apart from several other issues, the decision of the ruling party to form a war crimes tribunal in 2009 is one of the reasons behind the existing turmoil.

Mamata Banerjee said the state should be given at least a year''s moratorium on repayment of interests on central loans.

On Dec 8, a group of alleged TMC goons barged into the FB office at Cinematolla and beat several leaders.

Lawyers associated with several political parties but the TMC took part in the rally.

Yesterday, Delhi Police removed barricades from the American Embassy in Chanakyapuri as part of the ongoing diplomatic row with the US.

The state has already paid Rs 50 crore to the depositors, which according to the PIL, is not acceptable under law.

Suman has since skipped party programmes, even when Mamata Banerjee met party MPs to finalise a blueprint to accelerate development work before the Lok Sabha elections.

The matter has now been referred to Attorney General G E Vahanvati to work out legal details.

Coming to the defence of Justice A K Ganguly again, former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee Thursday said it would be a 'travesty of justice'' if SC was requested by the Centre to probe into the allegations against him afresh.

Inaugurating the session on behalf of the CM, state finance minister Amit Mitra pointed out the "massive increase" in the budget allocation for minorities since Mamata came to office in 2011.

The West Bengal Human Rights Commission is waiting for a reply from the West Bengal State Law Clerks'' Council on its action on a letter threatening to frame its Chairman Justice Ashok Kumar Ganguly.

Taslima told PTI that the story of the serial, which was earlier scheduled to be broadcast from Thursday night on the newly launched 'Aakash Aath'' channel, is about a Hindu family settled in the city.

To take oath next week, says Gorkhaland statehood demand 'not on the agenda now''

The state government''s directive to a private channel to stop airing a serial based on a story by exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has raised the hackles of Opposition parties.

Several departments of the state government faced sharp criticism from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday when she conducted a review session of each ministry to assess their performance and if they achieved their respective targets.

Left front and the Congress are peeved at the state government for not placing the CAG report in the Assembly for the last two years.

Members of the West Bengal Mahila Congress Committee, along with other senior Congress leaders, took out a procession on Saturday protesting violence against women in the state.

The joint secretary of the department, A K Singh, has been kept in compulsory waiting, which, in official parlance, stands for punishment.

The popularity of the Facebook page of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee''s has crossed five lakh 'likes'' but Narendra Modi, Arvind Kejriwal and Vasundhara Raje were ahead of her.

The emotive issue of domestic violence and the different ways in which it is tackled in the US and India was discussed at length when an NGO invited a US police chief over recently.

The post fell vacant when Banerjee retired in 2009.

The girl was in stable condition and that the state will bear all her medical expenses.

Mirza said he would send a report on Dey''s sudden move to his higher-ups and seek directions from them.

TV serial written by Taslima Nasreen was postponed with the instructions of Mamata Banerjee.

The noted singer who regularly featured in CM''s entourage recently was a witness to Mamata''s ire.

This is not the first time that the West Bengal government has raised the issue of Ganguly''s visit to Pakistan.

L and LR department confirmed not receiving any requisition for land; Partha-headed IT dept''s performance too not at par

The party has called a Lalbazaar Chalo march on Tuesday.

According to the police, the incident took place late on Sunday.

Even the Trinamool leaders claimed to be in dark about the impending reshuffle.

Modi will divide the country if he comes to power: Buddha.

3 TMC workers have been arrested in connection with attack

Family forced to relocate, five of the six accused arrested in the incident that took place in October

A Bharat Sevasharam monk was arrested and remanded in police custody for allegedly abusing minor boys in the ashram premises at Sahapur.