Friday 06 November, 2009
The Centre has finally released a fund of about Rs 3 crore for conservation of Sunderban and Buxa tiger sanctuaries of Bengal.Friday 06 November, 2009
Tension gripped the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital today after relatives of a stillborn child alleged medical negligence and ransacked the hospital premises.Friday 06 November, 2009
Two youths were lynched by an irate mob in Lakshmanpur near Domjur in Howrah on early Thursday after they were suspected to be involved in stealing mobile phones, money and ornaments from morning walkers.Friday 06 November, 2009
The ruling CPM though today admitted that there has been a spurt in the incidents of violence in the state, it said there was no such condition that calls for imposition of President’s rule by the Centre.
Friday 06 November, 2009
“If I win, my first step would be to revive the PG hospital and giving it a facelift in the first year of my term,” says Firhad Hakim, the Trinamool Congress councillor who is now in the fray for Alipore Assembly seat, vacated by Tapas Paul who was elected MP in May 2009.Friday 06 November, 2009
Ahead of Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s scheduled two-day visit to West Midnapore beginning November 7, Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi today summoned state Chief Secretary Asok Mohan Chakrabarti and sought a report on the current security situation in Lalgarh.Friday 06 November, 2009
With the Naxals facing the heat of an imminent concerted operation by security forces, a top Maoist leader on Thursday said the rebels were ready for talks “if there was ceasefire on both sides” and paramilitary forces deployed in the Naxal-hit states were withdrawn.Friday 06 November, 2009
In the wake of rising incidents of violence in the state, the Election Commission has declared all the ten Assembly constituencies going to the bypolls on November 7 as sensitive.Friday 06 November, 2009
Even as top Maoist leader Kishenji said talks were possible with the government if it declared a ceasefire and withdrew central forces from the Naxal-hit areas in various states...
Friday 06 November, 2009
It’s a battle for legacy between the wife and protégé of late Subhas Chakraborty as Belgachhia East goes to polls on November 7.
Thursday 05 November, 2009
Centre has asked the West Bengal Govt to strictly ensure law and order whatever be the provocation for the political violence.Thursday 05 November, 2009
Preity Zinta is leaving Bollywood for B-school. “Yes, I’m going to the Harvard Business School to study a short executive course in negotiating and deal-making,” she says.Thursday 05 November, 2009
In the introduction to his book on cocktails, aptly titled Happy Hours, Bhaichand Patel, 73, a flamboyant connoisseur of liqueurs and liquor...Thursday 05 November, 2009
Back in the 1980s, when British designer Zandra Rhodes visited India to judge the Miss India contest...Thursday 05 November, 2009
With a pruned budget, the Kolkata Film Festival will be devoid of “excesses” this year (read lacklustre parties in five-star hotels) but it still has enough going for it to draw Kolkata film lovers.
Thursday 05 November, 2009
At one look, Kaji is nearly like your dream-room come true. Soft lighting, guitars, blow-ups of Marilyn Monroe and Brando’s Don Corleone...