Calcutta, India News

Kolkata, May 19: Continuing the heat on ponzi firms in the wake of the Saradha scam, the Securities and Exchange Board of India Sunday issued caution advertisements against two West Bengal based companies which have been raising funds under the collective investment schemes .

Cannes, May 18: As rain lashed Cannes today, it was Bengal's day at the film festival with the state's leading male actor, Prosenjit, putting in an appearance at the Confederation of Indian Industry booth.

Calcutta, May 18: Sudipta Sen was sent to judicial custody today after Bidhannagar police, probing the Saradha default crisis, did not seek extension of his remand.

I have two folders in my work computer. One is titled "lack of common sense." The other is "your government at work." There's no question that the stories sent to the folders will overlap quite often, considering the tale I'm about to tell you.

Clinton S. Brown pens a passionate piece on the place that made him feel at home for three years My family and I board a plane this morning to take us back to America.

ONGC chairman Sudhir Vasudeva, Kallol Datta, president of Bengal Chamber of Commerce, and Bengal industries minister Partha Chatterjee in Calcutta on Friday.

The Central Board of Secondary Education will conduct a retest of the all-India medical entrance exam on May 26 for about 100 candidates of a centre in Calcutta who were furnished question papers in English despite opting for Bengali.

Kolkata, May 16 : Observing that "time has not come" for a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the Saradha chit fund scam, the Calcutta High Court Thursday refused to accept a plea in this regard but said it will consider it after fully hearing the matter.

The milky white bangle that nestles between the red pala and the noya in the forearms of the Bengali bride is an enduring symbol of matrimony in Bengal.

Kolkata, May 16 : The meeting between the West Bengal government and the State Election Commission today to finalise the dates of the panchayat polls remained inconclusive with no sides reaching an 'agreement'. According to sources, besides dates of the polls, differences of opinion emerged at the meeting in respect of the district-wise ... (more)

The derailed engine and coaches of the Calcutta-Haldibari Intercity Express in Birbhum's Nalhati on Tuesday.

Calcutta, May 14: The BJP central leadership today prevailed upon the Bengal unit not to field a candidate for the June 2 bypoll to the Howrah Lok Sabha seat, the move triggering speculation that the party wanted to keep its door ajar for Trinamul in 2014.

Kolkata, May 14: With the Calcutta High Court observing that deployment of central paramilitary forces was not mandatory for the upcoming panchayat polls in West Bengal, the opposition Tuesday expressed apprehension over the fairness of the elections.

Kolkata, May 14 : Opening a new avenue in the raging Saradha Group chit fund scam probe, the Calcutta High Court Tuesday allowed the Enforcement Directorate to investigate the case.

Kolkata : The Calcutta High Court will today hear a Public Interest Litigation or PIL demanding a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the Saradha chit fund scam that has wiped out the savings of lakhs of small investors in West Bengal.

Calcutta, May 13: New Delhi-based Mother Dairy, which today entered the dairy products segment in the city, aims to earn Rs 100 crore in revenues from the eastern region in three years.

An infrastructure company has asked for Rs 257 crore in compensation from the railways for being kept waiting over three years to start work on a stretch of the East-West Metro mired in litigation and red tape.

Calcutta, May 13: The Chatterjee Group today upped the ante in its battle for control of Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd by trying to throw the Bengal government's stake sale process off the track.

New Delhi: Expressing scepticism over the Mamata Banerjee government's intention to hold panchayat polls in West Bengal, the CPM Sunday said the Trinamool Congress had lost its support base it had in 2011.

Calcutta, May 12: The Bengal IT department has initiated the process of setting up an e-waste management and processing unit in an adjoining district of Calcutta.