Union Petroleum Minister M Veerappa Moily recently suggested that one day of a week should be declared as 'Bus Day''.

Partha Chatterjee, tried to brush aside the auto firm's submission.

Cameron is the second British Prime Minister to visit Kolkata.

He said the city has a huge need for infrastructure and an enormous amount of work is going on.

The forest department would install devices, which generate infrasonic waves, to keep elephant herds away from rail tracks.

Yadav had Sunday said that MPs should be banned from making speeches in English in Parliament.

He said there was no shortage of agricultural produce in the country and attributed the recent crisis to poor transportation.

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has located the birth certificate of celebrated author Mark Tully.

Jagan tomorrow will meet Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow.

In the evening, he will attend a function at Raj Bhavan in connection with the presentation of a copy of the commemorative volume on Rev.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday said two years form now no Gram Panchayat in the state would be without banking service.

The Opposition Congress in West Bengal Monday reiterated its demand for a CBI probe in the Saradha chit fund scam.

The Calcutta High Court Monday stayed a notification issued by the West Bengal government, which banned inter-state trading of potato.

In a suspected fallout of gang war, some bike-borne persons shot at a man near Narkeldanga Post Office early on Tuesday, police said.

HC dismisses all appeals in dispute over HPL disinvestment.

In pre-recorded video, arrested MP claims Saradha Group media houses were like TMC mouthpiece; says he is being made scapegoat

The House, however, was not adjourned and continued with its business till recess.

The employees gathered outside Nabanna, chanted slogans and burnt a copy of the circular.

The Congress Legislature Party (CLP) may boycott the closing ceremony of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations of the West Bengal Assembly from December 4 to 6 over the Speaker''s permission to allow Congress members to counter the statement of CM Mamata Banerjee on price rise issue.

Sharmistha addressed a series of rallies for Congress in Delhi, which is going to polls on December 4.

The LBA envisages exchange of 161 enclaves adversely held by India and Bangladesh in each other''s territories and alterations of boundaries in some places.

Launched under the West Bengal Right to Public Services Act, 2013, Chief Minister said, the handbook would strengthen the public service delivery mechanism.

The Speaker praised Mamata for her work and determination, and pointed out Bengal''s contribution in various fields.

Bera''s counsel had challenged the termination order, saying the vice-chancellor, as per legal provisions, does not have the authority to terminate the registrar.

7-member team to visit Bangladesh High Commission today

CM Jyoti Basu had received Mandela and a civic reception was accorded to him at the Eden Gardens.

BJP state president Rahul Sinha claimed that whatever "traces of CPM remain in Kerala would soon be wiped out".

As the Congress suffered a debacle in the four states, results for which were declared Sunday, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is set to visit Delhi Monday.

Many high-profile invitees are likely to skip the programme, though Ganguly may attend it.

Irani said Nitish Kumar should look into how his own party can be in a better place rather than making comments.

Several rights activists and organisations also asked Ganguly to step down.

Bhattacharya said the walk was to protest the attacks on democracy by the state government.

Named Chetna Yatra, the activists say the rally is a step towards creating public awareness about AAP in West Bengal.

While the first home will accommodate 100 elderly sex workers , the second one, for their daughters, will house 50 girls.

Mukherjee had gone to Washington to seek funds from the World Bank to implement projects like supply of arsenic-free water to the rural areas.

Mamata Banerjee said the state should be given at least a year''s moratorium on repayment of interests on central loans.

On Dec 8, a group of alleged TMC goons barged into the FB office at Cinematolla and beat several leaders.

The post fell vacant when Banerjee retired in 2009.

3 TMC workers have been arrested in connection with attack

Bandopadhyay also questioned the pressure being put on Ganguly to step down as the WBHRC chairman.

As Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) chief Bimal Gurung prepares to take oath as GTA chief executive at Raj Bhawan Thursday, the state government is keeping its promise of releasing jailed outfit members.

There was no official announcement whether portfolios of existing ministers would be changed, or anyone would be dropped.

Bodies of six persons of a family a couple and their four daughters aged 1, 5, 8 and 10 were recovered from a guesthouse room at Tarapith in Birbhum on Thursday.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday said the trend of students leaving Kolkata for Bangalore or Hyderabad for higher education will be reversed in a couple of years as the state capital will will became a education hub.

Altogether16,000 km of village roads would be developed through the launch of one kilometre all-weather roads in all of 3,349 gram panchayats in West Bengal from January 7.

The condition of 82-year-old Suchitra Sen, who was admitted to a super specialty hospital here after complaining of respiratory tract infection, is stable now, doctors attending on the veteran actress said.

Apart from sexual misconduct, note also details his foreign trip, arbitration assignment.

Amid the massive public outcry over the death of a 16-year-old girl who was gangraped twice and later set ablaze, the West Bengal government on Thursday condemned politics over her body and claimed it had fully cooperated with the bereaved family.

A member of the TV show Satyameva Jayate, hosted by Aamir Khan, Thursday met the parents of the Madhyamgram rape victim at the local CITU office here and interviewed them.

A K Ganguly confirmed on Tuesday that he had resigned as chairman of the WBHRC.