A trawler carrying around 16 fishermen capsized in the Bay of Bengal near Jambu Island in South 24 Parganas. While 11 of them managed to swim across to another trawler, five including the driver Swapan Das have gone missing.

A teenaged girl committed suicide in humiliation following her alleged molestation by her neighbour in Naihati of North 24 Parganas.

Slamming the Trinamul Congress for its opposition to the panchayat election’s schedule during Ramazan, former chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee vowed of not repeating the mistakes of the past.

Shedding their denial mode, the top brass of the Kolkata police swung in action on Saturday when the three cops accused of assaulting a youth, Mohammed Rafique, and urinating on him in Park Circus on Thursday night were directed not to join the duty at their workplace, Beniapukur police station, till the inquiry was over.

Allegations surfaced against three cops of assaulting a youth and then urinating on his face in Park Circus Maidan on Thursday night.

Keeping the door ajar for a Third Front alliance between non-Congress and non-BJP parties, Samajwadi supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Sunday ruled out Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee’s call for

Jewellery of the British era worth over `15 lakh was stolen under mysterious circumstances from Indian cricket legend late Pankaj Roy’s residence in front of Kumartuli Park in Shyambazar.

Desperate to take forward her call for a federal front, West Bengal chief minister and Trinamul Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has initiated talks with the leaders of three key regional parties — Ja

Triggering fresh speculations about the UPA government’s existence, chief minister Mamata Banerjee has again predicted the fall of the Congress-led government at the Centre and the Lok Sabha elections

In a controversial decision following SFI leader Sudipto Gupta’s death in police custody in June, Kolkata police commissioner Surajit Kar Purkayastha on Saturday declared a ban on the law violation programme by all political parties in the city. He also made it clear that no political event would be allowed at the Metro Channel.