

Wednesday 4 March '09
A star-struck Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee is banking on the popularity of Bengali film stars to woo voters in the Lok Sabha elections.Tuesday 3 March '09
A day after announcing their tie-up for the Lok Sabha polls, both the Congress and the Trinamool Congress were busy trying to wrest as many seats as possible from each other.....Tuesday
3 March '09A day after announcing their tie-up for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls due in April-May, both the Congress and the Trinamool Congress have braced themselves to strike a hard bargain and wrest as many seats as possible from each other.Sunday
1 March '09Unable to raise money for his kidney transplant, a 42-year-old man from Burdwan has written to the district administration that he be allowed to die peacefully.Thursday
26 February '09The Kolkata Police has warned foreign nationals about taxi drivers in the city and has asked them not to take advice from the drivers.Sunday
15 February '09Hindu Samhati, a radical Hindu outfit, brought up with the support of Sri Rama Sene leader Pramod Muthalik, celebrated its birth anniversary in Kolkata on Saturday, with the speakers defending the Malegaon blasts accused, Lt Col Purohit and Sadhvi Pragya Singh.Thursday
12 February '09“My world is falling apart,” Arindam Manna told his mother Malati over the phone at 1.37 am this morning. He did not elaborate, nor did he say where he was, but his mother heard a lot of commotion in the background.Thursday
12 February '09“My world is falling apart,” Arindam Manna told his mother Malati over the phone at 1.37 am this morning. He did not elaborate, nor did he say where he was....Wednesday
11 February '09The police on Wednesday recovered the body of the officer investigating the mysterious death of computer graphics teacher Rizwan Rehman, from railway tracks at Mankundu station in Hooghly district.Wednesday
11 February '09A daily wage labourer on Tuesday died and five others critically injured in clashes that broke out Murhsidabad when they were demanding 100 days of work under National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.Tuesday
10 February '09The Kolkata Police have pressed murder charges against five wardens and guards at the Presidency Central jail for allegedly beating two under-trials to death on September 18 last year.Sunday
1 February '09With a Blackberry in her hand and a laptop slung on her shoulder, it’s another day at work for Mahua Mitra.Sunday
1 February '09With a Blackberry in her hand and a laptop slung on her shoulder, it’s another day at work for Mahua Mitra....Wednesday
28 January '09The state jail department plans to set up state-of-the-art phone kiosks inside high-security central jails on the lines of those in the US to provide basic communication facilities for inmates and relief to their family members who have to often travel long distances to meet them.Tuesday
27 January '09Although cellphone jammers were installed in Alipore Central Jail way back in 2006, authorities were surprised when they recovered six cellphones....Monday
26 January '09Although cell phone jammers were put in place in Alipore Central Jail way back in 2006...Monday
26 January '09The lack of proper surveillance and dependence of a sizeable chunk of the population on poultry farming seems to be standing in the way...Wednesday
21 January '09Even as the proposed grand alliance between the Congress and the Trinamool Congress ahead of the Lok Sabha polls is running into rough weather, Mamata Banerjee could not care less as more Congress stalwarts line up to join her party.Monday
19 January '09After his release from Presidency Central Jail, Pradip Todi, one of the accused in the Rizwanur Rehman case, alleged that the jail authorities illegally detained him for two nights after the Supreme Court granted him bail on Friday.Wednesday
14 January '09The Criminal Investigation Department today arrested a suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba operative on Tuesday from the house of a retired Army constable in Malda and produced him before the Jangipur court, which remanded him to police custody for 14 days.Wednesday
14 January '09Members of the CPM-affiliated National Library Employees Union, who decided to fly to Assam to spend their holidays, have been caught in a controversy after the Pay and Accounts Department rejected their reimbursement bills, saying the air tickets submitted by them are not authentic.Tuesday
13 January '09For this 57-year-old Muslim housewife, who belongs to a conservative family in Nandigram’s Jadubari Chowk, her mission in life is to provide justice...Monday
12 January '09For this 57-year-old Muslim housewife, who belongs to a conservative family in Nandigram’s Jadubari Chowk, the mission in life is to provide justice to the victims of police firing on March 14, 2007 and the violence thereafter.Sunday
11 January '09With hospitals coming under the falling in the terror radar time and again, the state government has planned to heighten security at the premier state-run hospitals in the city.