

Monday 20 July '09
The West Bengal unit of the BJP on Sunday attacked former union minister and Darjeeling BJP MP Jaswant Singh for his open support for Gorkhaland...Thursday 16 July '09
After suffering a huge blow in the recent Lok Sabha elections and municipal polls mainly on the issue of land acquisition...Wednesday
15 July '09Rattled by the Sunday’s accident at the Delhi Metro project site that left six people dead and 13 others injured, the Kolkata Metro Railway Corporation is reviewing its safety measures.Monday
13 July '09The Public Works Department (PWD), in-charge of the Writers’ Buildings, does not have its map, and should the headquarters of the state government come under a terrorist attack and the NSG is called in for rescue...Saturday
11 July '09In an apparent snub to West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, his Cabinet colleague and Minister for....Saturday
11 July '09In a snub to Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Minister for Land and Land Reforms Abdur Rezzaq Mollah has curbed the freedom of choice for industrialists.Thursday
9 July '09Over five months after the Centre cleared a proposal to set up a medical institute in West Bengal on the lines of All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi, a war of words has broken out...Wednesday
8 July '09Controversial IPS officer Nazrul Islam, who had been on ‘compulsory waiting’ — a type of ‘punishment’ meted...Monday
6 July '09The faction-ridden state unit of the BJP got embroiled into another controversy as state vice-president Sabyasachi Bagchi claimed that Chhatradhar Mahato...Saturday
4 July '09Employees of the moribund Basumati Corporation Limited have welcomed the remarks Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee made in her budget speech regarding taking over the PSU. They have also written a letter to Mamata thanking her for the move.Wednesday
1 July '09After deployment of security forces in Lalgarh, Chief Minister is now sending senior IAS officers as a confidence-building measure among the people.Wednesday
1 July '09Ahead of the formal opening of the NSG hub at Kolkata, the commandos putting up at the hostel at Yubabharati Krirangan at Salt Lake....Wednesday
1 July '09The senior IAS officers who have been sent by Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee to Lalgarh...Wednesday
1 July '09Ahead of any real assignment, elite NSG commandos at their temporary unit at a hostel at Yubabharati Krirangan in Kolkata’s Salt Lake area are fighting one battle they were not prepared for.Friday
26 June '09With the monsoon proving to be elusive, resulting in a near drought-like condition in Bengal, the state government is apprehending a food crisis if there is no rainfall within a week.Saturday
20 June '09In the 1970s the walls of various buildings of Kolkata and the districts were dotted with graffiti of a paraphrased quote from Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung....Saturday
13 June '09West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi on Friday quelled all speculation by declaring that he would not stay back after expiry of his term....Saturday
13 June '09West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi has quelled all skepticism by declaring that he would not seek renomination for his post after his term expires this year.Friday
12 June '09The growing influence of Maoists in Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore districts has forced the state government to desperately seek Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s intervention.Thursday
11 June '09Before we left for Khejuri, we were informed about a roadblock at Bajkul...Tuesday
9 June '09Rapid land acquisition for industrialisation and aversion of the Muslim community to the government because of economic deprivation have been pinpointed by the Marxists as two reasons for the debacle they suffered in the recent Lok Sabha elections.Monday
8 June '09After its poor show in the Lok Sabha elections, the state BJP unit has been hit by a factional war. State unit secretary Rahul Sinha and his supporters are trying to dislodge state BJP president Satyabrata Mukherjee by accusing him of “absolute inertia”.Friday
5 June '09“In the 32 years of historic rule of the Left Front we have lost our mothers, sons and daughters because you have done nothing.Thursday
4 June '09The state government and the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha, which is spearheading the movement for a separate state of Gorkhaland, have agreed to hold panchayat elections...Wednesday
3 June '09Cyclone victims again erupted in anger in front of West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee...