Taslima told PTI that the story of the serial, which was earlier scheduled to be broadcast from Thursday night on the newly launched 'Aakash Aath'' channel, is about a Hindu family settled in the city.

Several departments of the state government faced sharp criticism from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday when she conducted a review session of each ministry to assess their performance and if they achieved their respective targets.

The popularity of the Facebook page of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee''s has crossed five lakh 'likes'' but Narendra Modi, Arvind Kejriwal and Vasundhara Raje were ahead of her.

The post fell vacant when Banerjee retired in 2009.

TV serial written by Taslima Nasreen was postponed with the instructions of Mamata Banerjee.

Family forced to relocate, five of the six accused arrested in the incident that took place in October

10 depts yet to submit amount of land they have

A majority of people will have to pay up to get a glimpse of BJP''s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi during a public rally at Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata on February 5.

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.

The Kamtapur Liberation Organization (KLO) Friday denied any involvement in Thursday night''s cycle bomb explosion at Jalpaiguri and blamed the police for creating a "misunderstanding".

With the Aam Aadmi Party assuming power in Delhi, West Bengal has started witnessing the party''s proliferation with each claiming to be the original representative.

State spends Rs 2 lakh per month on each PS, who have no work

Two years after bellowing smoke from a devastating fire in its basement smothered to death more than 90 people, mostly patients, a part of the AMRI Hospital in Dhakuria reopened its doors Monday for treating the sick.

Victim's father alleged that police asked him to leave Kolkata and return to Bihar with his daughter's body.

On October 25, when the victim was reportedly raped the first time, the alleged juvenile returned home in the evening to celebrate his sister''s birthday.

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.

Soon after sending a police team with a cheque of Rs 1 lakh for the family of the girl who was gangraped twice and died after she was allegedly set on fire by two of the accused, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Thursday promised to rehabilitate the family in Bihar if they chose to do so.

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.

Senior BJP leader and former Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi Friday condemned the brutal gangrape and the murder of a girl from Bihar in Kolkata and demanded a speedy trial of the case to bring perpetrators to justice.

Women''s organisations Friday sent a letter to West Bengal government seeking an impartial investigation into the gangrape and killing of a 16-year-old minor girl in the state.

The family of the 16-year-old Madhyagram gangrape victim will meet President Pranab Mukherjee on January 7 and are likely to demand a CBI probe.

Trinamool Congress in West Bengal Sunday accused the Opposition parties of making concerted efforts to belittle the West Bengal''s image before the outside world.

The father of the 16-year-old gangrape victim, who died of burn injuries after she was allegedly set ablaze, filed a petition before the Calcutta High Court on Monday seeking CBI investigation into the incident.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Monday denied interfering in the probe into the gangrape of a 16-year-old girl, beyond merely responding to people''s 'sentiments'' by deputing a senior police official to visit West Bengal and providing financial assistance to the victim''s family.

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

The party leaders say that by introducing online registration, they are targeting the youths.

Dev claimed that about three lakh people will attend the rally tomorrow.

Rights activist Sujato Bhadra said Ganguly should have put in his papers much earlier.

The report, however, has no mention of the investigation by the West Bengal Police.

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