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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

The GTA delegation also want the release of GJM men and GTA executive members who are behind bars.

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.

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.

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

The Subhas Ghising-led GNLF had sought the tribal status for all the people living in the hills under the Sixth Schedule.

The Calcutta High Court Friday directed the state government to file affidavit within two weeks explaining its stand on the illegal construction of hotels and resorts at the Tajpur sea beach in the East Midnapore district.

Besides having to deal with the speeding trains, the elephants in north Bengal also have poachers wreaking havoc in their lives.

Left Front chairman Biman Bose today demanded a CBI probe into the multi-crore Saradha Group ponzy scam and claimed that several names other than that of its chairman Sudipta Sen had cropped up in connection with it.

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

The Calcutta High Court Monday stayed a notification issued by the West Bengal government, which banned inter-state trading of potato.

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.

In a suspected fallout of gang war, some bike-borne persons shot at a man near Narkeldanga Post Office early on Tuesday, police said.

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.

She said she had told the Finance Commission, Finance Minister and the Prime Minister on several occasions that this should be stopped.

They manhandled Sanyal, 81, who fell on the ground before taking him away.

Significantly, Governor M K Narayanan had said that he does not agree with the name change Bill.

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

The govt might write to the President to remove Ganguly as chairperson of West Bengal Human Rights Commission.

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.

The Supreme Court Friday asked the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to operationalise its branch from January 1 in Kolkata.

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

Mohun Bagan has asked All India Football Federation (AIFF) to review a Rs 2 crore fine imposed on them after a ruling by retired Supreme Court judge A K Ganguly, who is now embroiled in the law intern molestation case.

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

Sharmistha addressed a series of rallies for Congress in Delhi, which is going to polls on December 4.

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

IG, Law and order Anuj Sharma was also present in the meeting.

The LBA envisages exchange of 161 enclaves adversely held by India and Bangladesh in each other''s territories and alterations of boundaries in some places.

In a strategic move in its defence and strengthen surveillance capabilities, the Navy is in planning for a full-fledged coast battery at the Sagar Islands on West Bengal''s coast.

The meeting, convened to discuss the party''s strategy in the winter Parliament session, was presided over by party supremo and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

Sexual harassment: TMC demands his immediate removal from rights panel post