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High Court div bench declines to intervene in WBJEE result order

Kolkata, Aug. 21 -- The Calcutta High Court's division bench on Thursday declined to intervene in a single bench order directing publication of the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE) resul... Read More


HC commutes death penalty in toddler's murder

Kolkata, Aug. 21 -- The Calcutta High Court has upheld the conviction of a woman and her partner for the murder of a one-and-a-half-year-old boy but commuted the death penalty awarded by a Howrah cour... Read More


Ignored again? Dilip Ghosh 'not invited' to PM Modi's Dum Dum rally

Kolkata, Aug. 21 -- Former state BJP president Dilip Ghosh has not yet received an invitation for the public rally in Dum Dum, which will be addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday. Ghosh ... Read More


CU students branded 'B'deshi', assaulted by traders; 2 held

Kolkata, Aug. 21 -- Four students of Calcutta University were allegedly assaulted by a group of Hindi-speaking traders after being branded as Bangladeshis in the Sealdah station area on Wednesday nigh... Read More


Legal tangle puts fate of thousands of med,engr, nursing aspirants in limbo

Kolkata, Aug. 21 -- An alarm bell is ringing in academic circles of Bengal as the future of around 11,000 medical and over 35,000 engineering aspirants in the state, besides those in nursing (BSC, GNM... Read More


Bengali family 'forced' to return to Balurghat after harassment in Ggm

BALURGHAT, Aug. 21 -- A chilling incident of linguistic harassment has come to light after a Bengali-speaking family from Balurghat's Ward No. 16 was forced to return home from Gurugram, Haryana. The ... Read More


Flood-hit Jalpaiguri school holds classes on roadside

Jalpaiguri, Aug. 21 -- For more than a month, children of Uttar Basusuba Habiruddin Smriti Primary School in Chapadanga Gram Panchayat have been compelled to study under the open sky, as persistent Te... Read More


Majwa village near Kurseong lit up with solar street lights

DARJEELING, Aug. 21 -- Majwa, a remote Himalayan hamlet in the Kurseong sub division has been illuminated with 35 solar-powered street lights, marking the first step in a rural development initiative ... Read More


Tensions in Dinhata as BJP leader Nisith Pramanik appears in 2018 murder case

COOCH BEHAR, Aug. 21 -- Tensions flared in Dinhata on Thursday when BJP leader and former Minister of State for Home Affairs, Nisith Pramanik, appeared before the Dinhata Magistrate Court in connectio... Read More


B'desh national held for overstaying visa: Police

Siliguri, Aug. 21 -- A Bangladeshi national was arrested from the Goursingjote area near the India-Nepal border for illegally staying in India even after the expiry of his visa on Wednesday night. T... Read More