Saturday 21 November '09
Acting Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court Bhaskar Bhattacharya vacated his chair in the middle of a session on Friday and refused to occupy it after being informed that the words “Satyameva Jayate” was not inscribed below the Ashoka Pillar symbol.Saturday 14 November '09
In a fresh salvo against the Maoists, the Left Front government has alleged that for the last one year the ultras are steadily denuding forests in the Jhargram sub-division in West Midnapore.Monday
9 November '09Three districts saw continuous bloodbath over last 12 months It all started on November 2, 2008 when Maoists made an attempt on the life of Chief Minister Buddhadeb BhattacharjeeWednesday
4 November '09Rift within the executive committee of the Bar Association of the Calcutta High Court has come to the fore, as a section of its members resorted to an indefinite cease-work on Tuesday.Tuesday
3 November '09Differences surfaced among members of the Bar Association of the Calcutta High Court a day before the week-long cease-work beginning Tuesday over the issue of shortages of judges.Wednesday
28 October '09Days after the state buckled to let 21 Maoist suspects walk in exchange for an abducted police officer, Maoists, leading armed tribals from Lalgarh and West Midnapore...Thursday
3 September '09With Metro pillars obstructing the flow of water in Tolly’s Nullah, the state irrigation department has decided to connect the drain with Adiganga at Kamalgazi.Thursday
20 August '09A day before the Independence Day, several judges of the Calcutta High Court received anonymous threat letters saying two terrorist outfits...Monday
20 July '09The Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS) is yet to submit the safety certificate of the Tollygunge-Garia Metro route even though Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee had declared on Saturday that the route would be operational by August 23.Thursday
16 July '09The editor of CPI’s Bengali mouthpiece Kalantar, Chandan Chakraborty, was found dead under mysterious circumstances in Shibpur on Tuesday.Thursday
16 July '09Chandan Chakraborty, the editor of CPI’s Bengali mouthpiece Kalantar who had been missing since Sunday, was found dead on the banks....Thursday
9 July '09Buoyed by its success in flushing out Maoists from Lalgarh, the state government is now gearing up for a joint operation with the Jharkhand Police to pursue the ultras in their strongholds of Purulia and West Midnapore districts...Thursday
2 July '09Even a day after state Home Secretary Ardhendu Sen called for withdrawal of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act charges against two suspected Maoists in Bankura...Sunday
28 June '09Almost four months after the impeachment process against Justice Soumitra Sen of the Calcutta High Court...Sunday
28 June '09Almost four months after the impeachment process against Justice Soumitra Sen of the Calcutta High Court was set into motion in the Rajya Sabha...Thursday
25 June '09At 72, Gaur Chakraborty may have served in many outfits, but his ultra-left leanings are still as firm as they were in his student days.Tuesday
23 June '09Though the Centre on Monday decided to ban the CPI(Maoist) in West Bengal even as security forces battled the ultras to reclaim Lalgarh, legal experts in West Bengal are divided in their opinion...Friday
19 June '09Despite the drubbing in the Lok Sabha polls, the state government has been going ahead with its plans of acquiring land at Geonkhali in the East Midnapore district for a proposed shipyard by a private company.Thursday
18 June '09The decade-old tussle between TCG Refineries, a company owned by Purnendu Chatterjee — co-owner of Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd...Wednesday
10 June '09Pabitra Das (30), who lost her husband Sanjay Das (38) in a landmine blast during the Lok Sabha elections at Jhargram on April 30, has not yet received the compensation amount of Rs 10 lakh, which was announced by the Election Commission of India.Wednesday
27 May '09Five thousand residents of the Ghoramara island in the Sagar block are still waiting for relief following the cyclonic storm Aila, which devastated the tiny island of six sq kms, on Monday.Thursday
21 May '09A special court in the city today awarded life sentence to five accused, including a death convict in the US Center attack case...Thursday
21 May '09Aftab Ansari, convicted and awarded death sentence in the 2002 American Center attack here...Thursday
21 May '09The Lok Sabha results show that the Left’s slide in Nandigram shows no sign of halting.Wednesday
20 May '09The election results show that the Left has suffered further erosion in its support base in Nandigram since the 2008 panchyat polls in the area.
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