Friday 3 April '09
Faced with a nerve-wracking poll battle ahead, the CPM is banking on music therapy to woo voters and is ready with 70,000 copies of an audio CD to be distributed free among its workers in rural Bengal for campaigning.Friday 3 April '09
With the upcoming Lok Sabha elections promising to be a tough one, the CPI(M) has found an innovative campaign method...Thursday
2 April '09For many like 75-year-old P Lahiri, a retired man from Ballygunge, the launch of Nano on Wednesday offered a mixed feeling.Wednesday
1 April '09West Bengal might soon get its second open-air correctional home in Durgapur, if the state jails department gives the final nod.Tuesday
31 March '09The Trinamool Congress candidate from Krishnagar, Tapas Pal, is campaigning hard in villages to boost his chances against the CPM.Tuesday
31 March '09The Trinamool Congress candidate from Krishnagar, Tapas Pal, is campaigning hard in villages to boost his chances against the CPM.Saturday
28 March '09Bidyut Dey, a resident of ward number 17 is 75 per cent disabled. He can still recall the harassment and pain he had to suffer when he went to cast his vote the in the 2004 general elections.Wednesday
25 March '09Taking into consideration the need for making Metro security personnel more efficient in the wake of increasing threat from terrorists...Tuesday
24 March '09He has seen Tapas Paul on the big screen and always wondered how he would look in real life.Tuesday
24 March '09Nano fever gripped the city even as the world’s cheapest car was launched in Mumbai on Monday.Friday
20 March '09To further enhance the security at city’s Metro stations in view of terrorist threats, all the stations may soon get an upgraded security system...Saturday
14 March '09Several years ago he had a brief rendezvous with Noam Chomsky after which he started introducing himself as a Marxist.Friday
13 March '09Nearly a decade-and-half ago, Abani Mohan Joarder was an IPS officer who, along with his colleagues...Wednesday
11 March '09Nearly a decade and half ago, Abani Mohan Joarder was an IPS officer who along with his colleagues arrested the then Trinamool Congress MP Mamata Banerjee as she forced herself into the Writers’ Buildings.Tuesday
10 March '09Mariam, a resident of Deganga in North 24 Parganas, was married by her parents at the age of 13 years.Thursday
5 March '09Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi today visited the state-of-the-art archive of State Bank of India in the SBI building on Strand Road, which has a wooden chest that once contained the ashes of Mahatma Gandhi, the Governor’s grandfather.Wednesday
4 March '09The Kolkata Metro Railway will be the first transport service of the country, for whose security the National Security Guards will provide crucial inputs.Saturday
28 February '09Bonnie Chowdhury,19, worked in a photo laboratory till she became a sex worker...Thursday
26 February '09Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi on Wednesday visited Ghoramara island in the Sunderbans which is shrinking due to the rising sea-level.Wednesday
25 February '09To prevent the frequent cases of suicide at Metro stations, the authorities are considering to build sliding screens on the platforms of the proposed East West Metro Corridor.Saturday
21 February '09Several years after the Centre’s directive to states to provide licences to people in possession of wildlife articles and artefacts, the state Forest Department has finally started issuing certificates.Friday
20 February '09With criminals taking to newer technology to stay a step ahead of cops, the state police have included specialised training courses in cyber crimes along with advanced weaponry in the regular curriculum of the Police Training College in the city.Wednesday
18 February '09When the body of city-based model Sanchaita Sarkar (24) was recovered by the Lake police from her Jodhpur Gardens fourth floor flat on Monday evening...Friday
13 February '09With rising incidents of man-elephant conflict, the wildlife wing of the state forest department has come up with a proposal to set up a committee for capturing elephants.Tuesday
10 February '09The nephrology department of the government-run SSKM hospital is one of the five centres that the Indian Council of Medical Research has chosen across the country conduct a study to record the rising incidences of renal failure across the country.
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