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

Within four days after taking over the Park Street rape case, the detective department (DD) of the Kolkata police on Saturday cracked the case and arrested two persons who were involved in the crime along with their two friends.

Wiser after the Teesta water-sharing treaty fiasco, the Centre on Saturday sent foreign secretary Ranjan Mathai to hold talks with West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee to find an amicable solution to contentious issues.

Without making any reference to the NCTC debate, Union home minister P. Chidambaram, in his address at the inaugural programme of the National Security Guard (NSG) hub at Badu, 50 km from Kolkata, on Saturday said, “Internal security is a very complex issue.

CPI(M) state secretary Biman Bose on Saturday apologised for his remark during a news conference November 9, 2011.

Admitting that some of his administrative decisions regarding the land acquisition were faulty and it proved costly, ultimately leading to the poll debacles, former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee finally owned up the moral responsibility for the defeats.

The security of the country is a shared responsibility and the central government did not pursue any discriminatory attitude towards the state governments run by other parties, union home minister P. Chidambaram said on Saturday here at the inauguration of the National Security Guard (NSG) hub.

After interrogating the rape victim and two of the accused, the police has found many loopholes, inconsistencies and discrepancies in her statement. Luvy Gidwani, who allegedly offered lift to the victim in his car, has been in Canada since January 2.

An Anglo Indian mother of two was raped in a moving car and thrown out on the road semi-naked in the heart of the city. The shocking incident took place in early hours of February 6 when she was returning home from a discotheque of a five-star hotel on Park Street.

In an unprecedented incident, Leader of the Opposition Surjya Kanta Mishra on Monday addressed a news conference standing outside the gate of the West Bengal Assembly.