A K Banerjee directed the state government to file the affidavit by December 2.

He said the city has a huge need for infrastructure and an enormous amount of work is going on.

The CM also requested for specific grant of Rs 1,55,000 crore to boost various development programmes.

S-I Noor Ali also faces dept probe for not acting on complaints.

Five days after the Short Street shootout, Kolkata witnessed yet another incident in Lake Town Friday.

Those identified spots include Victoria Memorial Hall, Nakhoda Maszid, St Paul''s Church, and Town Hall.

Sam Pitroda, on Friday lashed at those criticising the UPA government.

Modi effect: 230 have applied; party yet to name its own men.

Kitchen essential sold for Rs 100 a kg in Darjeeling after shortage rumours.

The forest department would install devices, which generate infrasonic waves, to keep elephant herds away from rail tracks.

In a development in the Short Street shooting case, Police Saturday seized Rs 82 lakh in cash from the bank locker of one of the accused.

The minister faces charges in connection with the murder of a Trinamool leader, Kamal Sheikh, in 2011.

While five elephants died on the spot, a pregnant had elephant sustained critical injury.

Indo- Bangla enclave exchange ICJ to hear their case, delegation to be in Mumbai in February.

Pulling out of a project is a matter of concern said Industries Minister Partha Chatterjee Sunday.

A prisoner at Presidency Jail was found hanging in the washroom of his cell Sunday morning, the police said.

Barring some of her 'favoured'' journalists, the region around where the CM and her close aides sit, is inaccessible to all.

Curtains down on 19th Kolkata International Film fetsival.

After going through the BPC report, Justice Sanjib Banerjee said the police did not investigate into the FIR.

Later, a press release of the army said, a joint inspection would soon be carried out to identify feasibility of land in North Bengal.

The management on November 1 had sought government permission to close Jessop and C.

Chatterjee said the Supreme Court, too, is not in favour of linking Aadhaar card to disbursement of benefits under various government schemes.

He added that someone must have shot it on a mobile phone and released it to the electronic media which has presented news in a bad light.

Meanwhile, Subrata Biswas, principal secretary, department of agriculture and marketing, said they were ready for a legal explanation.

Yadav had Sunday said that MPs should be banned from making speeches in English in Parliament.

He said there was no shortage of agricultural produce in the country and attributed the recent crisis to poor transportation.

Mamata said it was good to see that many new hotels were coming up in Kolkata.

Basu was stripped off the charge of Park Street and Shakespeare Sarani police stations.

The report, against which the hearing came up today, presented the details.

The country''s banking industry started a new chapter with the launch of first Bharatiya Mahila Bank in Mumbai today.

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has located the birth certificate of celebrated author Mark Tully.

29 kg gold, including 24 kilos from an aeroplane toilet, seized in last 24 hrs

The SFIO, now, would investigate into the affairs of firm as per the court''s order, said a counsel of the SEBI.

Adhikari said the Centre must stop unwanted intervention into cooperative societies.

Meanwhile, the incident sparked protests from locals who blocked J N Mukherjee Road in Howrah.

RVNL, which started work in 2011-2012, has filled up several water bodies thereby affecting the ecological balance of the area, the petition alleged .

The home will be set up in Burdwan''s Durgapur with a capacity of 30.

Jagan tomorrow will meet Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow.

In the evening, he will attend a function at Raj Bhavan in connection with the presentation of a copy of the commemorative volume on Rev.

Police suspect gang rivalry over turf control and extortion as possible reasons behind the shootout.

The President was here to inaugurate an international conference of the Institute of Charted Accountants of India.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday said two years form now no Gram Panchayat in the state would be without banking service.

Tripartite meet : Demands 3-tier Panchayati Raj system in hills, backward status for GTA area

The exodus of Congress and Left Front councillors to the Trinamool Congress continued Thursday giving the party an absolute majority in at least two more civic bodies.

West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee has written to the State Election Commission, requesting to postpone municipal elections in Jhargram, scheduled on Friday.

Ghosh would be writing to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh requesting him to start a CBI probe into the scam.