A murderous assault on a senior journalist by a ruling BJP leader in Patna and the controversial role of the police allegedly in favour of the attackers has sparked strong protests from the media comm

Bihar’s health minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey, already under severe criticism for the declining standards of public-funded healthcare facilities, has angered the state’s medical fraternity for reporte

CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat on Sunday came down heavily on the UPA government in the Centre headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Cases have been registered under Section 171(B) of the IPC (bribery) against 11 candidates of various political parties for accepting money from corporate houses, apparently to bribe voters during ele

Trinamul Congress MP Kabir Suman has mocked his party chief Mamata Banerjee for promising voters in Manipur that the Trinamul will ensure withdrawal of the Army’s special powers if voted to power.

At least three Indian fishermen were killed and nine of their compatriots injured when a gang of nearly 20 armed pirates, suspected to be Bangladeshis, opened fire on their trawler near the Bay of Bengal on Friday. The pirates also abducted a dozen other Indian fishermen in a hijacked trawler. The dead included a father and son duo.

Two eminent city doctors who are on the AMRI Hospitals’ management board were arrested by the detective department (DD) of the Kolkata police on Friday morning. The court sent them to seven days’ police custody. One of them Mani Chhetri, aged around 92 years, is the managing director of the ill-fated hospital while Pranab Dasgupta, 60, is one of the directors.

Two top city doctors who were on the AMRI Hospitals management board were arrested by the Kolkata police detective department on Friday morning.

In a tacit admission that the CPI-M has moved away from the masses, Biman Bose, the party’s politburo member and state secretary, on Thursday said it needed to transform itself from “top to bottom” to

Novelist Vikram Seth on Thursday accused the government of “knuckling under” an “enforced disgrace because of power and politics” and “misusing” religion ahead of Assembly polls over author Salman Rushdie being forced to cancel his visit to the Jaipur Literature Festival. Iterating that the Indian republic would not be allowed to be hijacked by fear, Seth said: “God and his prophets do not need bullies to defend themselves.”