Raju Mukherjee

The one-off Twenty20 match between India 'A' and West Indies 'A', which was originally scheduled at Shimoga, will now be staged at the M Chinnaswamy stadium here on September 21.

The National Lok Adalat held in the state on Saturday through 377 benches collected a settlement amount of Rs 343.5 crore, said Raju Mukherjee, secretary of the State Legal Services Authority (SLSA). Around Rs 160 crore was finalised through commercial disputes settlement.

Around 5.3 lakh devotees took the holy dip on Friday at Gangasagar Mela while another 2.8 crore logged in for the e-snan. No untoward incident was reported.

ustice TS Sivagnanam, judge of Calcutta High Court, who inaugurated the relocated Bhorsha Centre at the City Civil Court complex, said on Friday that this one-stop crisis management centre - set up following Justice Verma committee's recommendations after the Nirbhaya incident - is a great succour for the victims of sexual offences, including children.

The legal aid defense counsel system is in 10 districts in Bengal, and it will provide legal aid to the marginalized section of society. The system will use retired district judges as defense counsel, and the secretary of the state legal services authority said they are trying to find out the unrepresented prisoners and provide them with legal aid.

LUCKNOW: The state secretary of the Samajwadi Party's Lohia Vahini along with his associates was arrested by the Krishnanagar police on charges of extortion from a placement and security company.

Former Bengal batter Prakash Poddar, best known for being one of the two talent spotters who suggested a certain MS Dhoni's name to the BCCI bigwigs, has died in Hyderabad, according to information received from Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) sources.

KOLKATA: Indian cricket skipper Sourav Ganguly's voice will grace the archives of the All India Radio for posterity, side by side those of legends like Mother Teresa, Satyajit Roy and Uday Shankar.

The State Legal Services Authority-West Bengal (SLSAWB) will on Saturday introduce mobile Lok Adalat service, which will help citizens settle traffic disputes and pay traffic fines.

In two separate incidents in the city, cash and ornaments worth over Rs 3 lakh were stolen.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has set up a seven-member panel to examine complaints of post-poll violence from Bengal.

Following BCCI's move to cap the age limit for domestic-level match referees at 60, Anil Kumble, the president of the Karnatake Cricket Association, pushed the ruling by a year.

Court of special judge (women atrocities) Sriram Sharma on Tuesday awarded death sentence to Kalicharan alias Kaliya for the rape and murder of a minor girl at Rangamatti under the Baliyapur police station in 2007.

Sunil Gavaskar had once written that if ever Salim Durani wrote his autobiography, the apt title would be, 'Ask for a Six'.

Former India opener Arun Lal will be conferred Cricket Association of Bengal’s (CAB’s) Lifetime Achievement award at the annual awards function on Saturday.

Tribute on wheels to Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore is standing ignored in the heart at Cantonment Railway Station here where the 150{+t}{+h} birth anniversary celebrations of Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya were celebrated on a grand scale.