Slain top Maoist commander Kishenji had come to Jangalmahal from Orissa to observe the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) Week in December, little knowing that death was waiting for him.

Nearly one-and-a-half years after the Gyaneswari Express carnage, one of three prime accused in the case, Asit Mahato, was arrested by the joint security forces in Jangalmahal on Sunday afternoon.

Union minister of state for health Sudip Bandopadhyay on Monday gave a clean-chit to the Mamata Banerjee government for the death of 17 new-borns at Dr B.C. Roy Memorial Hospital for Children in Kolkata. He also rubbished the reports of negligence into the death of 17 infants at Burdwan Medical College and Hospital in Burdwan.

The connection of West Bengal and its capital Kolkata with the blast outside Delhi high court is widening day by day as a youth was detained by the special task force (STF) of the Kolkata police on suspicion of his link with the email episode. Sunny Sharma, the suspect, was picked up by the STF detectives from Kolkata on September 9 evening acting on a tip-off from the National

A day after social activist Anna Hazare set a deadline before the Centre to pass the Jan Lokpal Bill, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday asserted the government’s openness to a “reasoned debate” on it. Acknowledging its significance, Dr Singh, however, made it clear that Lokpal was not the only solution to end corruption.

Rejecting his bail plea, the Midnapore court remanded Sushanta Ghosh, the alleged mastermind of the massacre of seven Trinamul Congress activists, in four days’ police custody on Wednesday for further

At least one passenger was killed while 18 others injured in a train accident at Bankorpur of Kaliachak in Malda on Sunday evening. The death toll is expected to rise.

A senior official of a hotel at Dhanbad in Jharkhand, has gone missing under mysterious circumstances.

The West Bengal government has ruled out any negligence in the treatment and death of the 18 new-borns at Dr B.C. Roy Hospital for Children. State health secretary Manabendra Nath Roy informed this on Friday citing the findings of a three-member inquiry committee which virtually gave a clean chit to the doctors at the hospital. “The

A constable of the West Bengal police, missing from the police barrack since Saturday night, shot three persons, including an young couple, to death in broad day light in North 24 Parganas.