Joydeb Ghosh

The officer in charge of Amta police station was injured on Monday when a mob turned violent after a pregnant woman was scalded with boiling water by her in-laws.

Mili Ghosh, a 38-year-old woman, was found murdered on Friday at her Shibtala residence near Rajarhat in North 24-Parganas.

KOLKATA: Bad news for fish and egg lovers. Prices of these and a few other items are likely to shoot up with no fresh supplies reaching West Bengal from Monday.

For a select group of non-resident Bengalis (NRB), playing Birendra Krishna Bhadra’s ‘Mahishashurmardini’ on Mahalaya isn’t enough to get the Puja feeling. Ten of them have flown all the way from the UK to spend Puja where the heart belongs: in Kolkata.

On a November afternoon a decade ago, Singur was first caught in a debate between "willing" and "unwilling" landowners, a narrative that would go on to alter the Bengal political scene.

Yoga mania has hit schools in the city.

With compensation filling pockets, Singur farmers are on buying spree...

On the eve of the launch of the world's cheapest car, residents of trouble-torn block rued the loss of their date with history and the benefits it had promised.

Villagers in this part of Hooghly never had it so bad. They refused to give up even after the Tatas packed up from the Singur site.

This nondescript automobile repair workshop on a narrow lane off the Hazra Bridge over the Adi Ganga wouldn’t be hard to miss… had it not been for a few unusual cars parked in and outside it.

Angry with his wife for seeking a divorce, a 25-year-old man allegedly hacked her with a sickle inside the Barasat court premises on Friday morning as dozens of lawyers looked on horrified. The victim is fighting for life in a hospital.

For the first time since the ‘save farmland’ agitation began in Singur, aggrieved farmers hinted at their willingness to forgo the land-for-land demand if offered a rehabilitation package that ensured alternative livelihood.