Haj Committee to train Muslim girl students for call centre jobs

Tuesday 26 February '08

Girls and boys from underprivileged Muslim families, who have studied in Urdu or Bengali medium schools...

Buddha invites Jamiat, leaders of Muslim bodies for talks

Thursday 11 October '07

Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has invited Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind’s state secretary Siddiqullah Chowdhury for participating in a discussion on the “present situation” of the state.

Jamiat’s poll posturing makes Trinamool happy

Monday 2 July '07

The Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind’s anti-CPI(M) campaign in the state is a boon in disguise for the NDA and its major partner in the state—the Trinamool Congress.

No means of livelihood, father seeks death for daughters

Monday 25 June '07

Abdur Rauf, 71, of Mulukgram near Bolpur in Birbhum district, wants death for his two disabled daughters, who have been deprived...

Bengal rules out recognition for over 400 pvt madrasas

Tuesday 1 May '07

The government is going to set up 100 new madrasas in the state. It has ruled out any chances of government recognition and affiliation to the West Bengal Board of Madrasa Education for the hundreds of existing unrecognised madrasas.

Jamiat secy slams Madani over Left Front comments

Wednesday 18 April '07

The state leadership of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind is reluctant to go by what Jamiat chief Mahmood Madani said...

Nazrul takes on CM, Left again

Friday 6 April '07

The maverick bureaucrat, IPS officer Nazrul Islam, has once again criticised the West Bengal Chief Minister and the Left Front government in an article written as a sequel to the Sachar Committee findings on Bengal Muslims.

Riding the anti-Left wave

Friday 6 April '07

Topis, safas (scarves) and slogans have largely been the trademark of most of the state’s rural and underprivileged Muslims.

9/11 schism: US Consulate gets Imam from home to reach out

Thursday 8 March '07

An imam from the United States will lead this Friday’s prayers at Sola Ana Mosque in Ekbalpore, Kidderpore, one of the city’s most famous mosques.

Abbas call for early polls has Hamas crying coup

Sunday 17 December '06

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced on Saturday he is calling new presidential and parliament elections at the earliest possible date...

After tension and tears, a concern for livelihood

Saturday 9 September '06

The charred bodies have been mined out. The day-2 at Bhatdih, Jagda, Barora, Madhuban, Chandanvyari and Bhurangia...

Rescuers find 43 bodies inside Dhanbad mine

Friday 8 September '06

A day after 50 workers were trapped in a mine of the Bharat Coking Coal Limited's Bhatbih Colliery in Jharia...

Retd couple get ready for World Cup No. 7

Friday 9 June '06

Pannalal Chatterjee, 73, and wife Chaitali Chatterjee, 63, don’t play football. Nor have they won any of the special ‘‘go-to-World Cup’’ offers.

Twelve tourists return, Dutta’s coffin too reaches Kolkata

Saturday 3 June '06

Indian Airlines cargo package 49590065/ 01/ CCU/DACC, carrying the body of Swaraj Dutta, the lone Bengali tourist who succumbed to injuries received in the terrorist attack at Srinagar...

Bengal deal: Land for Tata Motors, 152% compensation for farmers

Tuesday 30 May '06

Amid opposition and heated arguments put up by its partners, the Left Front today formally approved the land transfer for Tata Motors’ car factory at Singur, announcing a 152-per cent compensatory package for the displaced.