Several district Forward Bloc members had assembled in the local Madanmohantalla party office for a workers'' meet.

The WBHRC, however, could not confirm if he will be there and he did not attend office on Monday.

The petition is likely to come up for hearing on Thursday.

The project was caught in a controversy over acquisition of land as well as acquisition of coal block.

Deb had been accused of selling two plots undervalue without inviting tenders and causing a loss of Rs 20 crore to exchequer.

The TMC also took control of the New Barrackpore Municipality, which it was managing jointly with the Congress.

The judge has denied the allegations.

He also questioned the authority of the Supreme Court appointed panel in probing the matter.

Preliminary investigations have revealed prima facie involvement of four customs department men.

But the opposition alleged that the police were not doing anything.

Attack left at least 10 people, including an 76-year-old former Left Front minister, Naren Dey, seriously injured

Varun also scoffed at reports of Sourav Ganguly campaigning for them in the state.

Chit funds and other such schemes are clearly a concern and all regulators should be more vigilant.

The state governments must have the full freedom to set up and run Lokayuktas, said Derek O''Brien.

Johra, has been in jail since April 2009 even though her jail term was over June 2010.

The protest march and candle rally from the Press Club was participated by lawyers.

The MP went on to claim that a large number of irregular chit fund companies had come into existence.

The number of migrants has decreased after the restriction on issuance of visa.

The hearing date has not been fixed yet, but a copy of the PIL has been sent to Ganguly.

The girl, a Class VIII student, stopped attending school after she got engaged.

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.

Mamata is said to have called Shahi Imam of Tipu Sultan Masjid and sought support.

Ali was produced at the Chief Metropolitan Court at Bankshall court this morning.

The Bharatiya Janata Party has offered a Lok Sabha ticket to former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly to contest next year's general elections.

K D Singh and V K Singh were addressing a state level convention organised by members of the Punjabi community in Rohtak.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

According to the police, the incident took place late on Sunday.

Modi will divide the country if he comes to power: Buddha.

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

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.

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.

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