Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Surjya Kanta Mishra on Monday said that no self-respecting IAS or IPS officers would like to stay in the state because of the prevailing atmosphere. “The chief minister often laments that she does not have adequate number of IAS and IPS officers. I have told her that all self-respecting IAS and IPS officers will leave because it is not possible for them to toe the government line all the time,” he added. Dr Mishra was speaking on the sidelines of a programme at the Mahajati Sadan.

Rattled by severe public and media criticism over her hasty comments on Park Street rape case while the investigation was still on, chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday embarked on a damage control exercise.

The state government on Monday made it clear that it would not forward Infosys’ application to the Centre on granting IT SEZ (special economic zone) status to the company’s proposed facility at New Town-Rajarhat. Instead, the state government is working on alternative facilities for the IT major.

Buoyed by the massive turnout of party supporters in its maiden show of strength after exit from power in the state, the CPI(M) on Sunday urged the party workers to go to the people and win back their

A day after cracking the Park Street rape case and puncturing chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s claim that the case was “fabricated”, the detective department (DD) of the Kolkata police obtained permis

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, under attack from the Opposition parties and social activists for holding a much-hyped international conference to discuss the state’s economic growth, on Sunday fel

Amidst strains between the two, Congress ally Trinamul Congress has said there was no question of compromise on the Lokayukta provision, pension bill and FDI in retail if there was a move to pass them

UP chief minister Mayawati said on Sunday that the BSP would performance even better than it did in 2007 and she would again form the government in Uttar Pradesh.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Sunday addressed her first rally jointly with RLD president Choudhury Ajit Singh in Aligarh.

In the middle of a raging, divisive debate in Jharkhand over the provisions of a law that aims to protect the tribals’ land, several politicians, including some in the ruling coalition, are battling a