After getting the information a a team of police officials from Manick Chowk police station rushed to the spot.

Sudipta Sen has lost 30 kg of bodyweight in the last month and is keeping unwell.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Speaker Biman Banerjee said under Assembly rules, the CM can make a statement on any issue and no question must be asked.

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 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.

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.

The State Election Commission Saturday announced repoll in six booths in Howrah, Krishnanagar and Bidhannagar municipalities where the election were held Friday.

Ghosh was arrested in connecction with scam Saturday evening.

Trinamool Congress maintained its winning streak bagging four of the five municipalities that went to polls last week.

Leading the demand for the change is a group led by Union minister of state for railways Adhir Ranjan Choudhury.

A second fast track court at the City Sessions Court Monday asked the chargesheet in the Kamduni rape case be translated to Bengali and handed over to the accused, Rafiqul Islam, before the next hearing on December 11.

Rebel Trinamool Congress MP Somen Mitra will resign from the Lok Sabha in January, before joining the Congress, to avoid byelection in his Diamond Harbour constituency.

HC dismisses all appeals in dispute over HPL disinvestment.

In A move that has angered even those who owe allegiance to the ruling Trinamool Congress, the Mamata Banerjee government Tuesday banned all processions, rallies and demonstrations by government employees at Nabanna, the new secretariat building at Howrah.

Biman Bose Tuesday deposed before a commission set up to probe into the police firing on a Youth Congress rally.

Those named by arrested Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Ghosh, including the Chief Minister must be interrogated: Surya Kanta Mishra

The employees gathered outside Nabanna, chanted slogans and burnt a copy of the circular.

PCC chief calls off programme, faction led by Mala Roy goes ahead with it.

The Calcutta High Court Thursday extended till December 16 the status quo on the sale and transfer of 155 million shares of ailing Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd to IOC.

Justice Ganguly had been appointed as the chairman of the WBHRC in 2011 at the behest of Mamata Banerjee.

A K Ganguly is best known for being part of the bench that quashed 122 2G spectrum licences issued in 2008.

Trinamool Congress demanded the resignation of former Supreme Court judge Asok Ganguly from the post of chairman of the West Bengal Human Rights Commission.

'If needed we will beg, never steal people''s money''.

Sahara India Pariwar chief Subrata Roy said he wants to invest in West Bengal but never got an invitation from the ruling Trinamool Congress.

Shah said if his party formed the next government at the Centre it would give "due right" to the people of West Bengal.

Former Chief Justice Altamas Kabir Saturday expressed shock at the sexual harassment charges filed by a law intern against former SC judge Asok Kumar.

DM granted bail after cops tell court he gave all the required info in one day

Over 25 kg of red sandalwood was seized today from a Chinese national at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose international airport.

He said the party needed to motivate people to build a movement against "state-sponsored terrorism".

The Calcutta High Court Monday admitted a petition filed by a woman lecturer alleging that she was sexually harassed in a meeting of the Teachers'' Council and later suspended.

The activists staged a silent protest outside Bhabani Bhavan with banners reading "Jurisprudence calls for arrest of Mr Asok Ganguly".

Launched under the West Bengal Right to Public Services Act, 2013, Chief Minister said, the handbook would strengthen the public service delivery mechanism.

Derek O''Brien said TMC has followed an approach of zero tolerance when it comes to safety and dignity of women in the workplace.

The Speaker praised Mamata for her work and determination, and pointed out Bengal''s contribution in various fields.

Case looked at as hierarchy battle between IAS, IPS.

Meets CM, reviews construction of cancer hospital.

7-member team to visit Bangladesh High Commission today