Saturday 28 November, 2009
The Calcutta High Court today asked the state government to file an affidavit on the “illegal” allotment of land to ICARE, a Haldia-based NGO run by Lakshman Seth, former CPM Tamluk parliamentarian.Saturday 28 November, 2009
A cement and sponge iron factory at Jhargram in West Midnapore district, which is allegedly polluting the environment, has come under the scanner of the Calcutta High Court.Saturday 28 November, 2009
The Calcutta High Court today directed the Monitoring Committee of the state government to file an action taken report on phasing out more than 15-year-old public vehicles in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area.Saturday 28 November, 2009
A day after the students across various departments fared poorly in the results published by University of Calcutta...Saturday 28 November, 2009
Hopping on the pro-development wagon, Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee is set to lay the foundation for the first auto hub in the country at Shalimar in Howrah district on Saturday.
Saturday 28 November, 2009
In a note sent to the chairman of Kolkata Port Trust(KoPT), the Union shipping ministry has questioned maintaining a river port like the Kolkata port and asked why it should continue its operations relying on the subsidies.Saturday 28 November, 2009
With Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee claiming that a central team will be visiting soon to investigate the Khanakul clashes, the ruling CPM today said such a step would be unfortunate.Saturday 28 November, 2009
Even as a Central team is likely to visit West Bengal after the latest bout of violence in areas like Khanakul in Hooghly...Saturday 28 November, 2009
Barely 20 days after killing four EFR jawans at Gidhni in West Midnapore district, Maoists today ambushed the joint forces once again, killing two State Armed Police jawans...
Saturday 28 November, 2009
In a breakthrough in the case relating to the bomb blast in Alipurduar in Jalpaiguri district that killed two persons and left many injured on March 17, 2009...Friday 27 November, 2009
Dates have become terror’s mnemonics — 9/11, 7/7, 26/11. Numbers separated by a slash take you to a ground zero...Friday 27 November, 2009
Despite over 40,000 weddings in Delhi last weekend, guests braved the traffic and the icy chill to make it to the Salvatore Ferragamo store at The Emporio.Friday 27 November, 2009
Figurative work has been the buzz word for over five years now, especially since all the Indian artists making headlines belong to either sculptural disciplines, figurative paintings or new media art — read MF Husain, Subodh Gupta, Shilpa Gupta and Tejal Shah.
Friday 27 November, 2009
It’s funny how the Indian media’s fetishistic coverage of the Mumbai attacks almost annuls the everyday South Asian experience.Friday 27 November, 2009
After three meandering days of run riot, Bengal’s Ranji Trophy match against Saurashtra is all set for a finish that could either be thrilling or that could end up into an embarrassing dampener.Friday 27 November, 2009
The selection process adopted for recruiting primary teachers in 2006 has come under the scanner of the Calcutta High Court.