West Bengal, India News

He is a politician to the core, known as a champion of the poor and hugely popular despite being dogged by bribery allegations.

Activists of the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha , a regional organisation spearheading the demand for a separate state, stepped up their protest on Saturday for separate state of Gorkhaland, as they went on a hunger strike here.

KOLKATA: In the wake of the political unrest in Darjeeling over the Gorkhaland issue, the West Bengal government is trying to promote alternative tourist places in the State.

Although the well-off section of society eagerly waits for winter for recreation, the sweeping cold wave has hit the poor people hard, particularly the northerners.

Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday laid the foundation stones of two factories for manufacturing electric and diesel engine components in this West Bengal town.

Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee will flag off a bouquet of express trains from major Kolkata stations to Amritsar, Bangalore, Bikaner and Delhi Dec 30, an official said.

About a dozen armed robbers shot dead a passenger, seriously injured another and looted others on the Howrah-Amritsar Punjab Mail in Bihar's Jamui district early Saturday, police said.

The broken window panes at the office of the NJP station manager. Siliguri, Dec.

ENDANGERED AND EXPENSIVE: Feeding the reptiles, a kilo of meat/fish every other day, costs Nu 20,000 a month 20 December, 2009 - People visiting the Norgay crocodile breeding farm in the border town of Phuentsholing will now have to pay an entry fee to see the farm's six alligators and 15 crocodiles.

KOLKATA: The West Bengal Cabinet approved on Wednesday a decision to set up a special directorate to oversee security and implement measures against terror.

An Army probe into the Darjeeling land scam has recommended termination of services of Lt Gen Avadhesh Prakash and court martial proceedings against Lt Gen PK Rath whose appointment as Deputy Chief of Army Staff was later scrapped by the Ministry of Defene.

Essar Oil will supply gas to a Matrix Group company for its proposed new urea project in West Bengal, the Rajya Sabha was informed.

Jhargram : At least two CPM activists were reportedly shot dead by Maoists in West Bengal''s West Midnapore district.

India is going to seek extradition of Pakistani-born US national and suspected Lashkar operative David Coleman Headley in connection with his involvement in last yeara s Mumbai terror attacks.

Ahead of the fourth round of tripartite talks on the issue of a separate state of Gorkhaland, a 24-hour shutdown called by anti-Gorkha Jan Mukti outfits began on Monday morning in the plains to protest it.

Four people belonging to different political parties died in clashes in three districts of West Bengal Sunday, even as union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee asked the state government to take measures to stop the violence.

From : Mihran Keheyian Date : Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:28:58 +0400 THE 140TH ANNIVERSARY OF KOMITAS MARKED CALCUTTA, INDIA ArmInfo.

"The hunger strike will be relaxed from 4:30 pm today in deference to the appeal by the home minister on Friday and be resumed from December 22," said GJM general secretary Roshan Giri.

There has been uproar in southern India's Andhra Pradesh assembly in protest against the government's decision to create a new state.

The police have spoken to the accused over phone, yet both the victim and the culprit remain at large This is a story about a teenage girl who led her parents as well as the police to the people who trafficked her from Siliguri in West Bengal to Delhi.