A young journalist working in a Bengali news channel was allegedly molested by a BSF jawan in a drunken state at Shyambazar on Monday evening.

A man was arrested by the government railway police (GRP) with eight kg of explosives at Sealdah station early on Monday. Acting on a tip-off, a GRP team raided the Down Lalgola Passenger train soon after its arrival and caught a passenger Jalal Ali, 30. A cache of explosives looking like white globule was recovered in a bag from him. It could be ammonium nitrate which is used for making explosive devices, the GRP officers suspect.

For 34 long years, writer Sunil Gangopadhyay was synonymous with Kolkata Book Fair. But after the demise of the prolific writer in 2012, he has now become a part of discussion in the fair as Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Lecture was held for the first time on Monday. “Genius is a difficult man to live with.

The second edition of the Kolkata Literary Meet (KLM) is going to be the highlight of 37th International Kolkata Book Fair as over 100 writers from all over the globe will take part in more than 40 sessions in the five-day literary meet.

In an unprecedented move, chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday administered oath of office to 13 parliamentary secretaries. The Opposition Left Front and Congress, which had opposed the appointment of parliamentary secretaries, boycotted the swearing-in ceremony which was held at the Assembly.

The second edition of the Kolkata Literary Meet (KLM) is going to be the highlight of 37th International Kolkata Book Fair as over 100 writers from all over the globe will take part in more than 40 sessions in the five-day literary meet.

A senior minister in Mamata Banerjee government exhorted people to treat CPI(M) just as they would treat poisonous snakes. This “venomous” advice was given by state food minister Jyotipriya Mallick at a Trinamul Congress party meeting in Birati in North 24 Parganas.

A Class 10 girl was allegedly gangraped and brutally beaten up by the assailants at Diamond Harbour in South 24 Parganas district on Wednesday evening. She was later left on the road in a bleeding state. Passers-by rescued her and rushed her to a hospital. The district police informed that the crime took place at the terrace of a hotel which has now been closed down. However, the two accused and the hotel owner are absconding.

State Congress president Pradip Bhattacharya would meet governor M.K. Narayanan to seek justice for Trinamul Congress worker Kazi Nasiruddin who died in police custody at Dhaniakhali in Hooghly district last week.

The Mamata Banerjee government will turn the ancestral house of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in a South 24 Parganas village into a monument. Ms Banerjee made this announcement on Netaji’s 116th birth anniversary at Netaji Bhavan. “There is Netaji’s ancestral house at Kodalia village in Subhasgram in South 24 Parganas.