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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Bandopadhyay also questioned the pressure being put on Ganguly to step down as the WBHRC chairman.

As Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) chief Bimal Gurung prepares to take oath as GTA chief executive at Raj Bhawan Thursday, the state government is keeping its promise of releasing jailed outfit members.

There was no official announcement whether portfolios of existing ministers would be changed, or anyone would be dropped.

Cabinet reshuffle : Replaces senior leader with Amit Mitra; inducts 2 new faces

Five people were killed and nine critically injured in an explosion at Bajrapara in Jalpaiguri district in north Bengal.

GJM supremo termed hill council 'necessity'', months after he said it should scrapped

Bodies of six persons of a family a couple and their four daughters aged 1, 5, 8 and 10 were recovered from a guesthouse room at Tarapith in Birbhum on Thursday.

A majority of people will have to pay up to get a glimpse of BJP''s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi during a public rally at Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata on February 5.

The seven-feet long sculpture, weighing several tonnes, allegedly fell and broke into two halves during shifting.

Jalpaiguri : Man carrying the bomb on his bicycle had links with KLO, say police sources

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday said the trend of students leaving Kolkata for Bangalore or Hyderabad for higher education will be reversed in a couple of years as the state capital will will became a education hub.

The Kamtapur Liberation Organization (KLO) Friday denied any involvement in Thursday night''s cycle bomb explosion at Jalpaiguri and blamed the police for creating a "misunderstanding".

The alleged incident happened when the laywer was interning with him.

The death toll in Thursday''s bomb blast at Jalpaiguri rose to six when one of the injured undergoing treatment at North Bengal Medical College Hospital succumbed to his injuries Saturday.

Three days after six people were killed in a cycle bomb blast in Jalpaiguri, police have arrested a former Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) leader and launched an all out search operation for the top leaders of the underground outfit.

Government is likely to send this week a Presidential reference to the Supreme Court for conducting a probe into the allegation of sexual harassment against Justice (retd) A K Ganguly after the Attorney General has endorsed it.

An alleged conman was arrested late Sunday for having put up in at least three luxury hotels in Kolkata for days impersonating as a senior company executive.

With the Aam Aadmi Party assuming power in Delhi, West Bengal has started witnessing the party''s proliferation with each claiming to be the original representative.

Legendary actor Suchitra Sen is in a serious condition after she was admitted to a private hospital here following a respiratory tract infection, doctors said Sunday.

The Kolkata police has admitted that the blanket ban on cycling and other forms of non-motorised transport in the city was initiated without making any study on how the ban would improve traffic.

State spends Rs 2 lakh per month on each PS, who have no work

Two years after bellowing smoke from a devastating fire in its basement smothered to death more than 90 people, mostly patients, a part of the AMRI Hospital in Dhakuria reopened its doors Monday for treating the sick.

Family members of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Monday appealed to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to respond to an RTI query on secret files relating to the mysterious disappearance of the INA leader.