West Bengal, India News

Darjeeling, May 23: A contractual driver who worked at the army base in Sukna has been arrested for alleged ISI links, but the Darjeeling police chief said he did not seem involved with the people caught days back for suspected connections with the Pakistani spy agency.

Calcutta, May 23: K. Sathiavasan has emerged as the front-runner in the race to the post of the managing director of Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd after the state government decided not to renew the term of incumbent Sumantra Choudhury.

A vacation division bench of the high court on Thursday directed the Shibpur botanical garden authorities to allow CESC to repair within 24 hours the damaged line on the premises that supplies power to south and central Howrah.

Siliguri, May 23: An engineer with the Siliguri Jalpaiguri Development Authority and an employee of a construction firm were arrested today for their alleged involvement in irregularities in the payments for five projects.

KOLKATA: Police arrested one Mohammad Azad, a cleaner of Army, on Thursday on charges of spying.

Calcutta, May 23: The Bidhannagar court today allowed police to slap three additional charges on Saradha boss Sudipta Sen and his deputy Debjani Mukherjee.

May 22: Over 800 supporters of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha today stopped Trinamul Congress leader K.N. Subba from entering Kalimpong near Gorubathan, leading to tension in the area after which local traders closed their shops.

Balurghat, May 22: A 22-year-old former clerk with the Saradha Group allegedly committed suicide, having lost his job and money he had invested in the money-mobilising firm.

Malda: At least nine infants have died at the Malda Medical College Hospital in West Bengal over the last 24 hours.The cause of the death of the infants, all below one year, was due to premature birth, low weight and respiratory problem, College Vice Principal MA Rashid said today.A seven-member inquiry committee under Malda's chief medical officer ... (more)

Every morning in West Bengal, boats carrying state police officials stop at various points along the Matla River, which flows close to the state's Sunderbans Tiger Reserve.

New Delhi, May 22 : Leaders of the Congress in West Bengal Wednesday met Chief Election Commissioner V.S. Sampath to lodge a complaint against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for allegedly violating the model code of conduct ahead of the June 2 Lok Sabha by-poll from Howrah.

The panchayat election dates proposed by the state government, and consented by the election commission, clash with Calcutta University's undergraduate Part-I and Part-II exam schedule.

The district proudly claims that the doi from Nayabazar is second to none and that if you visit South Dinajpur and leave without tasting it, your trip has been wasted.

It is tiring to hear Benghazi in the news every day, and I have to wonder if there is anyone with intelligence and common sense out there.

Founder and honourary director of The Hope Foundation, Maureen Forrest is pictured with one of the slum children rescued by the charity.

Calcutta, May 20: The CPM and the Congress will make gains and Trinamul will feel the pinch - not the bite - of anti-incumbency if the Lok Sabha polls are held now, according to the ABP News-The Nielsen Company opinion poll.

Darjeeling, May 20: A clerk at the Indian Army's base in Sukna was arrested today for allegedly stealing defence documents and supplying them to four persons from Kurseong, held yesterday on the charge of working as conduits of Pakistan's ISI.

In a significant decision that could accelerate rehabilitation, Bharat Coking Coal Limited on Monday decided in principle to award jobs to 372 land-losers of Mukunda open-cast mine, a failed project in Baliapur block, Dhanbad, for which in 1986 the company had acquired 1,758 acres.

Jonathan Maraj of Darjeeling, West Bengal, India, will be holding special meetings Saturday night and Sunday morning at Faith Fellowship in Osceola.

IT is known for long that most Fijians of Indian descent descend from the immigrants shipped to Fiji from India under the universally condemned indentured labour scheme.