Sukumar Das

In yet another siege by unsuccessful students, the headmaster, a district school inspector and around 25 teachers were gheraoed and locked up for about seven hours in a school at Sodepur's Ghola on Saturday.

Khargone police on Friday stopped the flight of a paramotor meant for Bharat Jodo Yatra promotion. The Yatra started from Khargone's Kherda village at 6am on Friday and soon afterwards, a paramotor was seen hovering over it. Rahul Gandhi was also seen waving at rider of the paramotor, which was painted in Congress flag colours with 'We Love RG' written on it.

The government on Saturday announced to increase seats in under graduate course from 150 to 250 in the three government-run colleges."We have decided to increase MBBS seats from the next academic session.

Bengal BJP invited all party workers to its state headquarters on the occasion of Saraswati Puja, even as some in the ranks were organizing “picnics”.A notice was hung at the Muralidhar Sen Lane BJP office, inviting all party workers to attend Saraswati Puja on February 5.

Arrested couple have named a Chennai contact, who, police suspect, is the missing link between the donors and the recipients.

Two youths, sukumar das and Bipul, died in an explosion at Khejuri near trouble-torn Nandigram.

KOLKATA: The crisis over the availability of anti diphtheria serum (ADS) in Kolkata has been averted for the time being as infectious disease hospitals in Jaipur and New Delhi have promised to send the serum.

Residents caught policemen allegedly dumping an injured man in front of Jadavpur University around 10.30 pm on Wednesday.

HYDERABAD: Reserve Bank of India governor Bimal Jalan on Saturday hailed the rich contributions made by former RBI governor M Narasimhan towards the planning and growth of Indian economy.

NEW DELHI: Book piracy has assumed dangerous proportions and poses a major threat to the Rs 7,000 crore publishing industry in the country, Federation of Publishers and Booksellers' Association in India says.

Theatre group Thealight has a great start with its latest production, Bhoy.

Chief minister designate Mamata Banerjee has ordered a tough crackdown on the post-poll violence raging across the state.

A man from Dhubri district kept in detention for more than eight months was released after the Gauhati high court last week directed the state government to set him free and pay him Rs 50,000 as compensation for keeping him under preventive detention beyond the stipulated period of 90 days.

Gouri Chakraborty, whose eye was nibbled at by ants at Sambhunath Pandit Hospital, died around 7.40 am on Tuesday.

More than 100 wildlife enthusiasts, activists and aspiring conservationists from the city have come together to raise their voice against the government’s proposed elevated corridor that cuts through Bandipur Tiger Reserve.

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Come January, you could have potato grown from the seeds prepared in Bengal rather than the ones brought from Punjab. The Bengal government is distributing Chandramukhi potato seeds to farmers in Hooghly and Burdwan.

Sixteen supporters of both Trinamool Congress and CPM were injured in a clash during the Raghunathpur High School managing committee election at Daspur on Sunday.

sukumar das, the inspector-in-charge of Khardah police station, got the shock of his life when he picked up the phone.

A 27-year-old Trinamool Congress supporter sustained burn injury after some miscreants sprinkled petrol on him and set him on fire late on Tuesday night at Howrah.

KOLKATA: One person died and six others were injured when the balcony of the Infectious Diseases (ID) Hospital’s staff quarter collapsed on Saturday afternoon.

KOLKATA: A woman admitted to a hospital in Kolkata for attempting suicide on Wednesday finally had her way.

A year after a 45-year-old homemaker got three local goons arrested for robbing her house, the trio barged into her Gaighata residence in North 24-Parganas on Tuesday night and stabbed her repeatedly.

KOLKATA: A cat and mouse game was witnessed the state run Shambhunath Pandit Hospital Monday — with neither the police nor the hospital authorities being able to trace a 'missing patient' for almost 36 hours.

Workers as well as officers of the Haldia Dock Complex (HDC) want mechanization of berths to help increase the volume of cargo and revenue, a three-member team from the ministry of shipping visiting HDC was told on Saturday.

Six persons, including an assistant sub-inspector of police, were killed when a private bus on the Siliguri-Behrampore route collided head-on with an oil tanker at Gholakandi in Murshidabad’s Farakka on NH-34 on Saturday. ASI Palash Kumar Singha (52) and three more bus passengers, including a woman, and both drivers died in the accident at 5.10am that also left 15 injured.

KOLKATA: The 34,000 - odd co-operative organisations in West Bengal, including about 7,000 banking units, have failed to grow outside the village markets, not because of lack of funds but mainly because of poor marketing efforts.

KOLKATA: Dog-bites in the city only got more painful. Chances of a quick redress by a timely jab of the anti-rabies shot have become more remote, with NRS Hospital no longer supplying the vaccine and Shambhunath Pandit Hospital – the other place where you get it – about to follow suit.