The Trinamul Congress civic board has promised to complete the remaining projects under the Kolkata Environment Improvement Project (KEIP) within 2012.
Mayor Sovan Chatterjee on Wednesday claimed that after meeting with the officials of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the prime lending agency of the Kolkata M

Amazed passengers entered the glittering new integrated Terminal-3 at New Delhi’s IGI Airport for the first time ever on Wednesday even as Air India announced that it plans to build a “primary hub” at Delhi airport to “connect India with the world”.

The naked body of a Class 11 girl was recovered from inside a trunk hidden under a bed at her uncle’s house at Nokari village in Ranaghat on Wednesday morning.
The girl, identified as Mithu Pranamik, a student of Ranaghat Debnath Institution, was missing since July 3. The uncle of the deceased, Rabi Dutta, 42, is absconding.

Around 400 police personnel from the neighbouring states might be deployed with the Delhi police for the Commonwealth Games security. The order will be issued if the next Cabinet meeting of the Delhi government approves the police personnel deputation in the city.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi will come to the city on a two-day visit in between September 22 and 26 to take part in a conference on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the formation of the Congress party. The Congress leaders of eastern Indian states will take part in this conference. AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi will also visit West Bengal soon.

Four persons were killed and six persons sustained injuries when the police opened fire on villagers including women and children protesting against a thermal power project being set up by Nagarjuna Construction Company in the wetlands of Sompeta mandal on Wednesday.

The students interested in taking up sports as their career would be gifted with new sports schools where they can take up sports and also study simultaneously. The state government plans to open four new sports school in the state.

Facing a string of Maoist attacks in the state, Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh on Wednesday said that the country must rise above the constriction that Naxal problem is the concern of any single state but a “national strategy’’ was needed to counter it. He also said a dialogue with Maoists will not serve any purpose unless they express faith in the Constitution and adopt democratic means.

The Trinamul Congress legislature party on Wednesday moved a motion in the House seeking discussion on the lawlessness and volatile situation in the state. Speaker Hashim Abdul Halim admitted the motion and will fix a date and time for a discussion on it on the floor of the Assembly.

A nine-year-old boy, who was hospitalised after his drunken father slashed his buttocks with a knife, was handed over to a child care home by the State Women’s Commission.