Top Maoist leader Ranjan Munda, who was active in West Bengal, Jharkhand and Orissa, and another squad leader were arrested by the joint forces from West Midnapore district
Recovery than 400 mobile sets from prison cells of three high-security correctional homes in Kolkata within 10 months has posed a serious question mark on prison security.
An irate mob ransacked a police station and torched a police vehicle here on Friday after being dispersed from a hospital premises where they were protesting the death of a woman, police said.
South Eastern Railway has tightened security in railway stations and trains in view of the serial bomb blasts in Pune and the all India alert sounded by the government.
With two deadlines missed, work on the new integrated terminal of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International airport was on in full swing and was expected to be completed on September 30, Airport Advisory Committee Chairman Saugata Roy
After a calm of 10 days, fresh violence broke out in parts of lower Assam today following recovery of four bodies, pushing the overall toll in the four violence-hit districts to 61.
On the occasion of Raksha Bandhan festival last week, the Writers’ Buildings turned into a place of festivity with ministers busy tying rakhis on the hands of everyone who visited their chambers.
While the Trinamool Congress may have agreed to back UPA’s Hamid Ansari in the race to the post of Vice-President, it will continue to oppose the Centre’s “reforms agenda” if its concerns remain unaddressed.
With the rain deficit in south Bengal triggering fears of Kharif crop failure, agriculture department officials today held a stock-taking meeting to prepare the course of action to avoid fall of Aman rice production.
The Calcutta High Court on Monday refused to stay the formation of the Siliguri Police Commissionerate and directed the state government to file an affidavit on the issue within four weeks.
The West Bengal Assembly standing committee team, probing allegations of misuse of funds for the purchase of hospital equipment in Burdwan Medical College and Hospital, on Tuesday said there have been gross irregularities in the state-run healthcare facility.
A group of doctors, who had challenged the state health department’s notification on serving in rural areas, on Tuesday told the Division Bench of Justice Subhra Kamal Mukherjee and Justice Harish Tandon that the government has withdrawn the notification.
The state government’s plan to set up the second open-air jail for the convicts serving life term sentences in South Dinajpur district’s Buniyadpur town has failed to take off due to encroachment problem.
The government today told the Calcutta High Court that the state did not issue any notification on its website to withdraw a notification issued on November 23, 2011, on doctors serving in rural areas.
Dissatisfied with the report submitted by the School Service Commission authorities on the recent SSC examination fiasco, the state education department has decided to conduct a separate inquiry of its own.
A 35-year old woman patient committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling inside the toilet of the eye department of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
