Terming the South China Sea as a disputed region, China has warned India to refrain from undertaking oil exploration in the resource-rich Vietnamese blocks in order to ensure “peace and stability” in

The Mamata Banerjee government during its first 10 months in the office has made West Bengal a more debt-stressed state.

Hundreds of shops and stalls were gutted when a massive fire devastated one of Kolkata’s oldest markets. The fire broke out in north Kolkata’s Hatibagan Market at around 2.45 am, sparking horrors of the pre-dawn fire at the AMRI Hospital in December 2011. Mercifully, unlike the hospital blaze which had resulted in the deaths of 93 people by asphyxia, no one was killed or injured on Thursday.

Two men have been sent to police custody by a local court in West Bengal's Howrah for allegedly raping a newly married woman in connivance with her own husband who is absconding, the police said on Friday.

In a bid to avoid further antagonising difficult ally Mamata Banerjee especially in view of the presidential election, the Congress high command may decide to withdraw its lone Rajya Sabha candidate Abdul Mannan from the fray in the state.

Nearly four months after the death of top Maoist leader Kishenji, a laptop and several other electronic gadgets were recovered along with ammunition and explosives by the joint security forces from Kushboni forest in West Midnapore district on Tuesday, leading the police and intelligence officials to suspect that the items belong to the slain rebel commander.

The Maoists on Wednesday offered to release one of the two Italians held captive by them if two of their demands, including release of some rebels, were met, as the Orissa government asked its medi

The state and Central security forces will now use rubber bullets and other less lethal weapons against the Maoists to minimise casualties. Ordnance Factory Board (OFB), the PSU of the defence ministry, is providing the “pump action guns” to the security forces for this purpose.

The West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee on Sunday came down heavily on its alliance partner — the Trinamul Congress — both at the Centre and the state for carrying out attacks on its workers and s

What do we do with a radio when we have nothing to eat?