A youth was shot at by a gang of anti-socials in broad daylight as he tried to stop them from molesting a teenage girl at Baranagar, on the northern outskirts of the city, on Saturday afternoon.

In a a shocking incident, a Class 9 student was allegedly gangraped by four youth near the circle inspector’s office at Joynagar in South 24 Parganas on Tuesday night.

Desperate to stop chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s party — Trinamul Congress — from sweeping away the upcoming panchayat election, the beleaguered CPI(M) is eyeing a “secret pact” with the Congress in the state. Significantly, both CPI(M) and Congress are now in the Opposition camp and have been extremely vocal against several policy decisions the Trinamul Congress government.

Desperate to stop chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamul Congress from sweeping away the upcoming panchayat election, the beleaguered CPI(M) is eyeing a “secret pact” with the Congress in the state.

The visit of Booker Prize winning author Salman Rushdie to Kolkata where he was expected to participate in the promotion for Deepa Mehta’s film Midnight’s Children on Wednesday was abandoned apparentl

The arrest of ex-Trinamul MLA Arabul Islam for allegedly orchestrating the attack on senior CPI(M) MLA Abdur Rezzak Mollah on January 6 appears to have boomeranged on the CPI(M) within 24 hours as Mr

The criminal investigation department (CID) on Tuesday arrested the husband of the woman who, he had earlier alleged, was gangraped and murdered by a group of miscreants at a brick kiln in Barasat, No

In an unprecedented incident, veteran CPI(M) MLA of Canning, Abdur Rezzak Mollah, was attacked and beaten allegedly by former Trinamul Congress MLA Arabul Islam and his associates in broad daylight at Kantatala in Bhangar in South 24 Parganas.

Leaving all recent acrimonies behind, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the centenary session of the Indian Science Congress at the Salt Lake

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday spilled venom on the UPA-2 government at the Centre for collecting hefty interest against loans given to West Bengal government. She branded the Centre as “money-lender” and asked it to “stop” collecting the interest. She once again pressed for a three-year moratorium on interest being paid annually on loans so that welfare schemes could be undertaken.