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IHCL, Kolkata Port join hands to redevelop historic 'Chotelal Ki Ghat'

Kolkata, Aug. 21 -- Indian Hotels Company (IHCL), India's largest hospitality company, has announced a collaboration with Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port, Kolkata, for the redevelopment of the historic Ch... Read More


TMC protests outside Parl, says Bengal 'won't tolerate humiliation'

Kolkata, Aug. 21 -- Asserting that they would continue to fight for Bengal's dignity and the rights of the people, Trinamool Congress MPs on Thursday staged a protest outside Parliament, saying that B... Read More


Shramashree: Post CM's directive, state begins groundwork

Kolkata, Aug. 21 -- The Labour Department, designated as the nodal agency for implementing the newly announced Shramashree scheme, began groundwork for the programme on Thursday. "It will take a few ... Read More


Apex court eases 50% marks eligibility for untainted SSC candidates

Kolkata, Aug. 21 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that all "untainted" candidates, earlier appointed through the School Service Commission (SSC) process and allowed to continue in service till D... Read More


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