Kumar was arrested on November 30 for his alleged involvement in the scam during his tenure as SJDA CEO.

The court has extended the date of his statement under Section 164 before the magistrate till December 27.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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 post fell vacant when Banerjee retired in 2009.

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

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

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.

3 TMC workers have been arrested in connection with attack

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.

10 depts yet to submit amount of land they have

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

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

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.

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

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".

Altogether16,000 km of village roads would be developed through the launch of one kilometre all-weather roads in all of 3,349 gram panchayats in West Bengal from January 7.

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.

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.

In order to counter the demand for a fare hike by bus associations and curb the violation of rules by auto-rickshaw drivers, transport minister Madan Mitra said 1,000 taxis would hit the roads on January 1 and 900 buses would be provided by the state government by March 31.

A central committee member of the Kamtapur People''s Party (KPP), which is spearheading demand for a separate Kamtapur state, has been arrested from Cooch Behar in connection with the bicycle bomb blast here that claimed six lives.

The police have already arrested seven persons in connection with the gangrape.