Meets CM, reviews construction of cancer hospital.

7-member team to visit Bangladesh High Commission today

Jyotirmoy Nandi has been carrying out a routine pest control exercise for which he has been contracted by the Home Department.

TMC's Lok Sabha member Saugata Roy said Ganguly should forthwith resign to "save his own face and save the prestige of the high office which he holds."

The postponement of the proposed enrolment for Aadhaar at gas agencies, which was supposed to begin on December 2, has left dealers apprehensive.

Taslima had criticised a meeting between AAP''s Arvind Kejriwal and UP cleric Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan on Twitter.

President said Ordinances should be normally promulgated only in the event of immediate need.

Bapi Oraon was killed when a dumper accidentally started and ran over him.

Karat said BJP and RSS are trying to add fuel to the fire of communalism in the country.

GJM panel to meet BJP leaders in Delhi, plans dharna at Jantar Mantar.

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

Several district Forward Bloc members had assembled in the local Madanmohantalla party office for a workers'' meet.

The project was caught in a controversy over acquisition of land as well as acquisition of coal block.

The TMC also took control of the New Barrackpore Municipality, which it was managing jointly with the Congress.

Clearances have been received from the fire and health department and OPD would be functional by the end of December.

The Bench was of the view that a committee is required to study such vast volume of report.

The judge has denied the allegations.

Preliminary investigations have revealed prima facie involvement of four customs department men.

But the opposition alleged that the police were not doing anything.

Operational conversion unit bid farewell to its oldest workhorse after five decades of service.

Chit funds and other such schemes are clearly a concern and all regulators should be more vigilant.

The state governments must have the full freedom to set up and run Lokayuktas, said Derek O''Brien.

We are investigating into the the links between the Maoists and the retired doctor, said Goyal.

Ali was produced at the Chief Metropolitan Court at Bankshall court this morning.

The Bharatiya Janata Party has offered a Lok Sabha ticket to former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly to contest next year's general elections.

The heritage property was restored at a cost of more than Rs 10 crore to its original glory in 2010.

While the BJP has already offered him a seat from the state, West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee chief Pradip Bhattacharya Sunday visited his house at Behala

Calcutta Tramways Company celebrated the centenary of Rabindranath Tagore winning the Nobel prize by offering special rides in a tram named Gitanjali.

Asked not to light ovens and cook food on pavements, vendors have begun shutting shop

The Trinamool Congress on Monday saw a fresh batch of leaders and workers from other political parties joining it in the presence of the party''s all-India general secretary, Mukul Roy.

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.

Apart from several other issues, the decision of the ruling party to form a war crimes tribunal in 2009 is one of the reasons behind the existing turmoil.

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

Lawyers associated with several political parties but the TMC took part in the rally.

The matter has now been referred to Attorney General G E Vahanvati to work out legal details.

Coming to the defence of Justice A K Ganguly again, former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee Thursday said it would be a 'travesty of justice'' if SC was requested by the Centre to probe into the allegations against him afresh.

Inaugurating the session on behalf of the CM, state finance minister Amit Mitra pointed out the "massive increase" in the budget allocation for minorities since Mamata came to office in 2011.

The state government''s directive to a private channel to stop airing a serial based on a story by exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has raised the hackles of Opposition parties.

Left front and the Congress are peeved at the state government for not placing the CAG report in the Assembly for the last two years.

Mirza said he would send a report on Dey''s sudden move to his higher-ups and seek directions from them.

This is not the first time that the West Bengal government has raised the issue of Ganguly''s visit to Pakistan.

According to the police, the incident took place late on Sunday.

A Bharat Sevasharam monk was arrested and remanded in police custody for allegedly abusing minor boys in the ashram premises at Sahapur.

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

Cabinet reshuffle : Replaces senior leader with Amit Mitra; inducts 2 new faces

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.

The alleged incident happened when the laywer was interning with him.

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.

Government is likely to send this week a Presidential reference to the Supreme Court for conducting a probe into the allegation of sexual harassment against Justice (retd) A K Ganguly after the Attorney General has endorsed it.