Seven pilgrims from Bihar on their way to Kalighat from Tarapeath were killed when the bus in which they were travelling in overturned in Hooghly early on Sunday.

The recent US report of terror camps on the Bangladeshi soil targeting West Bengal have put the Border Security Force (BSF) in a tight spot as BSF additional director general (east) B.D.

In a path-breaking judgment that could help maintain greater transparency in Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS), the Orissa Information Commission has directed the state women and child develo

A day after the alleged gangrape of a minor girl from Uttar Pradesh in Patna came to light, the city police found themselves grappling with another alleged gangrape of a local minor girl who went thro

While Bihar’s ruling JD(U)-BJP coalition still revels at the previous 15-year RJD regime being referred to as “jungle raj”, a BJP MP on Sunday embarrassed the Nitish Kumar-led government by openly deb

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s efforts to hold early panchayat polls (towards the end of January and first week of February) received a major setback as the Election Commission has rejec

It was an awkward moment for the newly-appointed UPCC chief minister Nirmal Khatri when, during a meeting here, Congress legislators blamed their own MPs and ministers for not cooperating with them in

Even as Bihar’s Opposition parties on Saturday accused chief minister Nitish Kumar of having imposed an “undeclared emergency-like situation” in districts he is touring, Mr Kumar professed his complet

A word about the sunscreen that almost everyone uses these days — it does more harm than good to your skin.

In a bizarre incident, it has been found that a BJP leader plotted his own murder so that he could escape the debt burden of `43 lakhs and his family could avail the insurance money to lead a comforta