West Bengal, India News

Baruipur, West Bengal: Sudipta Sen, chairman of Saradha Group which allegedly cheated thousands of poor investors in West Bengal and other states, was today remanded in 10 days police custody amid noisy protests outside the court.Mr Sen was produced before Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Debdeep Manna after being brought from Dum Dum jail in ... (more)

Balurghat, May 19: Workers loyal to two factions of the Forward Bloc clashed at Gangarampur yesterday when a Left Front meeting attended by chairman Biman Bose was going on to discuss the coming panchayat polls.

New Delhi, May 18: A landlord's needs should be considered while deciding an eviction plea and lodgers could be told to move out if the owner needed the entire premises, the Supreme Court has said clearing the air on a Bengal tenancy law.

Kolkata, May 19: Continuing the heat on ponzi firms in the wake of the Saradha scam, the Securities and Exchange Board of India Sunday issued caution advertisements against two West Bengal based companies which have been raising funds under the collective investment schemes .

Siliguri , May 19 : Four suspected linkmen of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency were arrested in West Bengal's Darjeeling district Sunday, police said.

Cannes, May 18: As rain lashed Cannes today, it was Bengal's day at the film festival with the state's leading male actor, Prosenjit, putting in an appearance at the Confederation of Indian Industry booth.

Calcutta, May 18: Sudipta Sen was sent to judicial custody today after Bidhannagar police, probing the Saradha default crisis, did not seek extension of his remand.

I have two folders in my work computer. One is titled "lack of common sense." The other is "your government at work." There's no question that the stories sent to the folders will overlap quite often, considering the tale I'm about to tell you.

Siliguri, May 17: The Congress today challenged Trinamul to move a no-trust motion against Siliguri municipal corporation mayor Gangotri Datta if it was not satisfied with her work rather than preventing her from discharging her duties.

Chanda, a resident of Howrah in her mid 30s, is the third woman from the state to climb the 8,848 mt Mount Everest peak.

Clinton S. Brown pens a passionate piece on the place that made him feel at home for three years My family and I board a plane this morning to take us back to America.

Siliguri, May 17: Several universities ad colleges from across the country will set up stalls at career fairs that will be organised in Gangtok, Darjeeling and Siliguri by SAPE Events and Media Private Limited in association with The Telegraph Careergraph next week.

The Central Board of Secondary Education will conduct a retest of the all-India medical entrance exam on May 26 for about 100 candidates of a centre in Calcutta who were furnished question papers in English despite opting for Bengali.

The Mamata Banerjee government has denied responsibility for getting work started on a stretch of the Barasat-airport Metro Railway link from where squatters enjoying political patronage have refused to move.

ONGC chairman Sudhir Vasudeva, Kallol Datta, president of Bengal Chamber of Commerce, and Bengal industries minister Partha Chatterjee in Calcutta on Friday.

Kolkata: The West Bengal government yesterday issued a notification proposing three-phase panchayat polls on July 2, July 6 and July 10.

A student of Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College was found dead in his rented room on Thursday morning in Khardah.

A Barasat court on Thursday sentenced a former scientist of the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre , Prabir Dasgupta, and wife Ileena to rigorous life imprisonment for the murder of her sister in 2005.

New York, May 16, : Authorities in India and Bangladesh should take all necessary steps to protect Shukhoranjan Bali, a long-missing witness in the International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.

Barasat, May 15 : A CID team of Assam Police, with the help of its counterpart in West Bengal, arrested the managing director and his wife of an Assam-based ponzi company from his hideout here in North 24 Parganas last night.