For the first time, Kolkata is going to host an International AIDS Conference (IAC) — Global Health Hub — from July 22-27 with hundreds of sex workers, physicians and representatives of different organisations to discuss the ways and means to prevent the disease.

A radio jockey (RJ), working with a reputed FM channel, was allegedly raped by an industrialist at a rave party at his upscale residence in south Kolkata. The accused, in his 60s, is absconding.

Walking out free on bail from Dum Dum Central Jail after spending 26 days there, 2006 Asian Games gold medallist Pinki Pramanik lashed out at doctors and the police Wednesday, and demanded a fresh probe. At 9.40 am Pinki’s father Durgacharan Pramanik and a group led by Jyotirmoyee Sikdar greeted her.

Passengers had a close shave on Sunday afternoon when two coaches of a local train derailed in Kolkata, disrupting train services in the south section of Sealdah division for several hours.

Two women were arrested by the detective department (DD) of the Kolkata police near Siliguri for their alleged involvement in a bank fraud running into crores. Rini Mitra and her sister Tanushree, the prime accused, are aged around 30 years and can speak English fluently.

On a day when Mahi Upadhyay was recovered dead from a borewell after a four-day-long battle at Manesar in Haryana, a teenager in West Bengal fell into a deep well in Howrah district on Sunday afternoo

A day after the Calcutta high court dealt a blow to the Mamata Banerjee government by declaring the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act 2011 “unconstitutional and void”, Ms Banerjee resolved to launch a fresh mass movement pledging support for the cause of the farmers of Singur.

After creating a sensation about her Facebook campaign for A.P.J. Abdul Kalam for the President’s post, chief minister Mamata Banerjee is now all out to create mass opinion in her favour on the Singur issue on social networking site and has described her Singur movement “a turning point in the recent history”.

At a time when chief minister Mamata Banerjee is focusing on upgradation of healthcare in tribal areas of the state, a key health care programme — Tribal Health Project — under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) is facing closure due to anomaly. The project is all set to discontinue from July.

A former BPO professional, who is said to be a key witness in the Park Street gangrape case, was allegedly molested at a night club in New Market.