Muzaffar Khan

A 22-year-old youth was arrested on Monday for allegedly assaulting and killing Shivlal Pyarelal Bashin (40), a labourer, at Khadki on Sunday night.

KOLKATA: State BJP president Ashim Ghosh has described the police crackdown on the party's leadership on Saturday as a black day for democracy in West Bengal.

UP BJP leader Mohit Beniwal has proposed renaming Muzaffarnagar to 'Laxmi Nagar' to CM Yogi Adityanath, drawing a parallel to the renaming of Allahabad and Faizabad. Citing historical and cultural significance, Beniwal argues for the change, though local opposition deems it a distraction.

To prevent high-scoring students from blocking seats in medical colleges till the end of the undergraduate and postgraduate admission process, the MCC (Medical Counselling Committee), under the Directorate General of Health Services, has directed all states to provide a database of students

Even as traditional medicines get a fillip from the Centre, demand for some AYUSH courses are on the rise. In Maharashtra alone, Ayurveda seats have gone up by almost 30% in four years and only a handful of them have gone vacant, admission data shows.

The two ISI agents have been arrested with incriminating defence related documents in their possession.

KOLKATA: Around 300 BJP activists, including West Bengal unit chief Asim Ghosh and vice-president muzaffar khan, were arrested on Saturday for defying a ban by taking out processions here.

A 36-year-old resident of Juhapura has registered a complaint with Vejalpur police alleging he has been receiving extortion calls.

“My life has changed completely,” says a broadly smiling 23-year-old muzaffar khan of Buldhana, who had undergone weight reduction surgery a year ago at city-based Jehangir Hospital. From a staggering 265 kg, he has lost 110 kg in a 1 year and is now down to 155 kg.

Four persons were arrested for allegedly stabbing to death a 40-year-old man and injuring his sister in Dindoli on Tuesday. One accused in the case is absconding.

Activists are concerned about students blocking seats at multiple colleges with all three admission rounds for AYUSH (ayurveda, homeopathy, unani) going on simultaneously this year. In many cases, students have been allotted two seats in the same college, through the state as well as the all-India process, which makes it a thoughtless exercise, say parents.

A rule in the brochure released by the central medical counselling committee (MCC) asking students to forfeit their deposits ranging from Rs 25,000 to Rs 2 lakh for an upgrade from round two to round three has not gone down well with postgraduate aspirants.

Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee in Delhi on Tuesday night and decided to work together in the interest of the alliance.

Several students appearing for the NEET-UG exam this coming Sunday have complained of getting far-off exam centres, even this year.

KOLKATA: With NDA convener George Fernandes announcing Trinamul’s return to the NDA, the state unit of the party is a happy and relieved lot.

Police have arrested a third-year law student of Agra College on Sunday for allegedly raping and murdering an eight-year-old girl

Suspecting them as burglars, a constable gave a chase to five people riding two bikes from near New Market to Kamla Nagar on Thursday afternoon.

A Pakistani and a Bangladeshi national were arrested in south Delhi and police claimed to have recovered sensitive defence-related documents from them.

KOLKATA: With Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee yet to decide her future plans, the BJP high command will not discuss any strategy for next year’s panchayat elections in West Bengal at its two-day eastern zonal meet.

KOLKATA: One visit by the Prime Minister was enough to unite the warring Trinamul Congress and the state BJP factions. Senior leaders from the two parties even vowed before Atal Behari Vajpayee to bury their differences and work together for the 2003 panchayat polls.

KISHANGANJ: Union textile minister Shahnawaz Hussain laid the foundation stone of the 50-tonnes capacity jute mill at Simalbari on the periphery of Kishanganj on Thursday.

KOLKATA: Pandemonium broke out at the first state-level convention of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Himayat Committee on Saturday, ostensibly organised to garner the minority community's support for BJP in the run-up to the remaining polls.

KOLKATA: West Bengal BJP leader and Union minister Tapan Sikdar on Friday said that the BJP will lend its weight to Ajit Panja during his martyr's day rally on July 21.

Armed men made away with an SUV and two mobile phones from a driver on August 24. A case in this connection was registered in Koh-e-Fiza police station on Tuesday. On the basis of CCTV footage and call details, accused have been identified and location traced.

KOLKATA: Reacting to the refugee influx from Bangladesh, mainline political parties in the city are making a beeline to the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission with their deputation. All of them have the same agenda: atrocities on minorities in Bangladesh.

KOLKATA: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee may have jumped the gun in his efforts to bring the state BJP closer to the Trinamul Congress.

KOLKATA: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee may have jumped the gun in his efforts to bring the state BJP closer to the Trinamul Congress.