A young housewife, who was missing from her Lake Town residence since April 26, has been found dead. Her decomposed body, that was recovered from river Hooghly in Titagarh on April 27, was identified on Tuesday night following which a complaint was lodged against her husband and in-laws. The accused husband, his father and maternal uncle were arrested on charges of murder for dowry.

The state government is not ready to discuss about the territory of the proposed interim authority for the Darjeeling Hills in the tripartite discussions before setting up the interim authority. The tripartite meeting at the administrative level which was held at New Delhi on Tuesday ended in a stalemate after the Gorkha Janmukti

After the question paper goof-up during the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE), another such incident occurred at Dum Dum Motijheel College during the ongoing undergraduate B.A, B.Sc., B.Com Part 3 examination under the Calcutta University on Wednesday.

Maoists exploded a landmine at Salboni symbolically cutting off connection between Lalgarh and Midnapore late on Tuesday night. However, no one was injured in the incident. Incidentally, Wednesday was the first day of the Jangalmahal bandh called by the Maoist-backed tribal body People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA).

The CISF detained a Ukrainian national, wanted by the US for alleged involvement in global computer hacking and credit card fraud ring. The accused Sergey V. Storchak, holding Ukrainian passport AX-332255, was taken into custody by CISF from the aircraft on May 8 when he arrived on a Jetlite flight S2-120 from Goa at the IGI airport.

The pension and provident fund of the former head of the chemistry department of the Delhi University will be held back till the probe into the Mayapuri radiation leak is over. The DU and Delhi police are simultaneously carrying out a probe into the Mayapuri scrap market radiation leak, the source of which originated from the chemistry department.

Even as the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) undertook a renewed drive to seal illegal mobile phone towers on Wednesday, the cellular operators have approached the Delhi high court seeking a stay on sealing. The operators contended that the increase in the one-time fee for installation from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 5 lakhs was unjustified.

Two men suffered injures when a tyre of a Blueline bus burst, causing the bus to ram into four vehicles on the BRT corridor in Ambedkar Nagar on Wednesday evening.

Taking strong exception to the MCD’s concealing facts in its affidavit in the ghost employees scam, the Delhi high court on Wednesday asked the civic agency to make its stand clear whether salary was paid to such employees.

Taking serious exception to Mr Sukhbir Badal’s words in stating that he would not relinquish his “kabza (occupation)” of Punjab for the next 25 years, the Congress Party said the deputy chief minister’s choice of expression is evident “reflection of his feudal and autocratic mindset”.