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Taxis in Kolkata allowed rooftop advertisements

Taxi operators were on Wednesday permitted by the West Bengal government to use rooftop advertisemen...

WB: Bomb blast accused arrested

An accused in a bomb blast case was arrested on Sunday from outside Kolkata airport when he was tryi...

Rains bring some respite from heat in Kolkata

Kolkata dwellers heaved a sigh of relief after suffering for days under the scorching sun as rains l...

Bomb hoax creates panic in train

The New Jalpaiguri-bound Pahariya Express was stopped at Tamluk station following the bomb scare.

Fire breaks out in building in busy Barabazar area

A fire broke out in a three-storeyed building on Ezra Street in the busy Barabazar area Saturday mor...

Mamata hits the streets to protest petrol hike

After slamming the Centre for the steep hike in petrol price, CM Mamata Banerjee hit the streets in ...

Kolkata gets its edition of `SlutWalk`

With youngsters coming ahead to hold a `SlutWalk` rally on Thursday, Kolkata joined the global movem...

`Maa Mati Manush` song at traffic intersections

The term "Ma Mati Manush" was coined by the Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee in the run-up t...

Army chief on farewell visit to Eastern Command

Army chief General VK Singh exhorted the officers of the Eastern Command to help in maintaining a cr...

AMRI director gets anticipatory bail

Calcutta HC granted anticipatory bail to Preeti Surekha, a director of AMRI Hospital, where more tha...

WBJEE Results 2012 declared

WBJEE Exam Results 2012 was declared on Thursday. The results were made available on the official we...

SC seeks WB govt response on Kalighat temple

The Supreme Court sought the stands of the Centre and the West Bengal government on a plea for permi...

Apex court notice on entry to Kalighat temple

SC issued notice to centre & WB govt on a petition seeking that devotees be permitted to enter sanct...

Kolkata fire: Prez honours nurses who died

Two nurses, who sacrificed their lives to save patients in the AMRI Hospital fire in Kolkata in Dece...

Katju heaps praise on Mamata

Press Council Chairman Markandeya Katju heaped praises on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee...

Hawkers in Kolkata to be issued permits

A high-power committee will identify hawkers in the metropolis who would be issued permits, but ther...

Hillary’s love affair with Taj Hotels continues

In Kolkata 14 years ago as the US First lady, Clinton had chosen to stay at the Hotel Taj Bengal, an...

No discussion on FDI, Teesta with Hillary: Mamata

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee termed her meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Cli...

Hillary meets victims of human trafficking in Kolkata

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton interacted with young women rescued from human traffickers and...

Senior CPI leader Nanda Gopal Bhattacharya no more

Senior CPI leader and former WB minister Nanda Gopal Bhattacharya died at a private nursing home Sun...

Hillary Clinton in Kolkata, to meet Mamata tomorrow

Hillary Clinton who is on second ever visit to Kolkata is expected to pitch for FDI in retail and di...

Hardcore Maoist Ajay Chanda nabbed

A hardcore Maoist, who supplied arms to other extremists, was arrested by the Special Task Force of ...

Kolkata slum dwellers` eviction a crime: Sen

Describing eviction of people from slums in Nonadanga as a "tragedy", human rights activist Binayak ...

Trinamool to mark one-year of Mamata govt

A procession would be taken out from Shyambazar in north to Dharmatolla in central Kolkata to expres...

Slum dwellers, police clash in Kolkata again

Nonadanga, located in eastern Kolkata, has been on the boil since March 30 when the Kolkata Metropol...

Ansari pleads guilty in 2001 Guj arms haul case

Aftab Ansari, the mastermind of the 2002 American Center attack in Kolkata on Wednesday appeared bef...

Man held with explosives in train

RPF personnel seized 30 emuldyne explosives and as many detonators from his possession.

AMRI authorities plan to reopen fire-hit hospital

AMRI Hospital authorities plan to reopen unaffected portions of their complex in Dhakuria Hospital.

Kolkata ragging row: Student slapped 40 times

A first year student of the Marine Engineering and Research Institute of the Indian Maritime Univ wa...

WB: Scientist Partha Roy released from jail

Scientist Partha Sarthy Roy, who was in jail for the last ten days for launching an agitation agains...

Will Gandhi Bhawan in Kolkata go on the block?

Haidari Manzil better known as Gandhi Bhawan in Beliaghata here, where Mahatma Gandhi fasted during ...

Kolkata: Scientists write to PM for intervention

Perturbed over the arrest of an eminent scientist who opposed eviction of slum dwellers in Kolkata, ...

NIA may take over Sadanala case from STF

A team of the National Investigation Agency arrived in Kolkata on Monday and held a meeting with the...

Five of family found dead in Kolkata fire

The charred bodies of five members of a family, including one with injury marks, were found from a h...

Kolkata rape: Accused declared proclaimed offender

Kader Khan, absconding prime accused in the alleged rape of an Anglo-Indian woman in a moving car he...

Kolkata rocked by successive tremors

Kolkata and parts of West Bengal was on Wednesday rocked by successive mild tremors in a span of le...

Two AMRI senior officials granted bail

A court on Tuesday granted bail to two senior officials of AMRI hospital, where over 90 people died...

Kolkata: 2 killed, 7 injured in an explosion

Two persons, including a woman, were killed and seven injured when several crude bombs went off at ...

Heavy rains lash Kolkata city

Heavy rains lashed the city this morning, inundating low-lying areas of the metropolis and affectin...

WB: Five killed in thunderstorm

Altogether five persons were killed as thunderstorm hit the districts of Murshidabad and Malda dist...

SC notice to SpiceJet for deplaning disabled woman

A cerebral palsy-afflicted woman has accused SpiceJet of forcibly deplaning her from a flight to Goa...

Several injured in Kolkata clash

Several people were injured when slumdwellers evicted from their homes blocked a road and clashed wi...

Trinamool MLA beats up auto drivers in Kolkata

TMC MLA Paresh Pal was seen beating up several auto drivers after they went on a rampage in Kolkata ...

Two more AMRI directors get bail

Directors of AMRI Hospital were granted bail by the Calcutta High Court in connection with the Decem...

Earth hour observed across India

Indians tonight joined millions of people across the globe to observe the Earth Hour by switching of...

Earth Hour 2012: Kolkatans switch off lights

Kolkatans switched off lights tonight and opted for a sustainable lifestyle with candle-night dinn...

Two Joka gram panchayats included into KMC area

Two gram panchayats, Joka I and Joka II, were brought under the jurisdiction of the Kolkata Munici...

Fire in Kolkata building, one killed

One person was killed and three people were injured in a fire at a multi-storey residential building...

Major fire at multi-storied building in South Kolkata

A major fire broke out in a multi-storied building in South Kolkata`s posh business hub of Chowringh...

Kolkata fire: Two AMRI directors get bail

After spending 111 days in custody, two directors of the fire-ravaged AMRI Hospital were on Wednesd...

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