West Bengal, India News

Malda: At least nine infants have died at the Malda Medical College Hospital in West Bengal over the last 24 hours.The cause of the death of the infants, all below one year, was due to premature birth, low weight and respiratory problem, College Vice Principal MA Rashid said today.A seven-member inquiry committee under Malda's chief medical officer ... (more)

Every morning in West Bengal, boats carrying state police officials stop at various points along the Matla River, which flows close to the state's Sunderbans Tiger Reserve.

New Delhi, May 22 : Leaders of the Congress in West Bengal Wednesday met Chief Election Commissioner V.S. Sampath to lodge a complaint against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for allegedly violating the model code of conduct ahead of the June 2 Lok Sabha by-poll from Howrah.

The panchayat election dates proposed by the state government, and consented by the election commission, clash with Calcutta University's undergraduate Part-I and Part-II exam schedule.

The district proudly claims that the doi from Nayabazar is second to none and that if you visit South Dinajpur and leave without tasting it, your trip has been wasted.

It is tiring to hear Benghazi in the news every day, and I have to wonder if there is anyone with intelligence and common sense out there.

Founder and honourary director of The Hope Foundation, Maureen Forrest is pictured with one of the slum children rescued by the charity.

Calcutta, May 20: The CPM and the Congress will make gains and Trinamul will feel the pinch - not the bite - of anti-incumbency if the Lok Sabha polls are held now, according to the ABP News-The Nielsen Company opinion poll.

Darjeeling, May 20: A clerk at the Indian Army's base in Sukna was arrested today for allegedly stealing defence documents and supplying them to four persons from Kurseong, held yesterday on the charge of working as conduits of Pakistan's ISI.

In a significant decision that could accelerate rehabilitation, Bharat Coking Coal Limited on Monday decided in principle to award jobs to 372 land-losers of Mukunda open-cast mine, a failed project in Baliapur block, Dhanbad, for which in 1986 the company had acquired 1,758 acres.

Jonathan Maraj of Darjeeling, West Bengal, India, will be holding special meetings Saturday night and Sunday morning at Faith Fellowship in Osceola.

IT is known for long that most Fijians of Indian descent descend from the immigrants shipped to Fiji from India under the universally condemned indentured labour scheme.

The city-based Jain Group is planning to build affordable housing projects across four east Indian cities, covering five million square feet of space at an investment of about Rs.2,000 crore by 2014-end. The real estate firm is currently developing eight projects in Kolkata, Durgapur, and Siliguri in West Bengal and Bhubaneswar in Odisha.

Calcutta, May 20: Police have sought the "maximum possible discount" on a bill of Rs 60,000 from Salt Lake's AMRI Hospitals where Debjani Mukherjee was kept for two days for treatment of gastroenteritis, officials of the health care facility said.

The glistening silk thread passes through thousands of pores punched in the card which is fitted at the top of the loom, and as we stare in wonder at the calloused hands of the craftsman tirelessly working the loom, a precisely crafted motif is woven in the silk with a few deft swipes of the loom.

Baruipur, West Bengal: Sudipta Sen, chairman of Saradha Group which allegedly cheated thousands of poor investors in West Bengal and other states, was today remanded in 10 days police custody amid noisy protests outside the court.Mr Sen was produced before Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Debdeep Manna after being brought from Dum Dum jail in ... (more)

Balurghat, May 19: Workers loyal to two factions of the Forward Bloc clashed at Gangarampur yesterday when a Left Front meeting attended by chairman Biman Bose was going on to discuss the coming panchayat polls.

New Delhi, May 18: A landlord's needs should be considered while deciding an eviction plea and lodgers could be told to move out if the owner needed the entire premises, the Supreme Court has said clearing the air on a Bengal tenancy law.

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 .

Siliguri , May 19 : Four suspected linkmen of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency were arrested in West Bengal's Darjeeling district Sunday, police said.