Kolkata, Jan. 16 -- The state government has decided to conduct a comprehensive study to evaluate the environmental and social impacts of inland water transport and related infrastructure projects in ... Read More
Kolkata, Jan. 15 -- The Calcutta High Court has held that a later change in government land policy cannot be used to deny homebuyers an outright sale promised under an earlier housing scheme. The ben... Read More
Kolkata, Jan. 14 -- The Calcutta High Court has held that a mining lease containing a one-time renewal clause cannot be denied renewal merely because the rules under which the lease was originally gra... Read More
Kolkata, Jan. 13 -- The West Bengal government, through the Employees' State Insurance (ESI) Medical Benefit Scheme under the Labour Department, has drawn up a plan to engage private clinics and healt... Read More
Kolkata, Jan. 13 -- The Calcutta High Court has held that a bank is legally entitled to release a mortgaged property back to the borrower if the entire outstanding loan dues are cleared before a sale ... Read More
Kolkata, Jan. 12 -- The Calcutta High Court has refused to quash criminal proceedings linked to a commercial dispute between two shipping firms, holding that a dispute over the residence of the accuse... Read More
Kolkata, Jan. 11 -- The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday acquitted a man convicted of murdering his wife in 2001, holding that a conviction cannot rest on a retracted confession supported only by inques... Read More
Kolkata, Jan. 11 -- The West Bengal government has planned a Rs 75.46-crore riverbank protection project along the Padma River in Murshidabad district, to arrest erosion and secure vulnerable stretche... Read More
Kolkata, Jan. 9 -- The Calcutta High Court has upheld the conviction of two men for causing grievous injuries to a businessman in a daylight assault in North 24 Parganas in 2008, but reduced their jai... Read More
Kolkata, Jan. 8 -- The Calcutta High Court has directed CESC Limited to shift electricity meters of two consumers from a dilapidated structure to a newly constructed meter room at the same premises, a... Read More