Kolkata, Feb. 6: A London-based doctor from Bengal was arrested for torturing his wife for dowry late Friday night. His wife is a British citizen by birth and a lawyer by profession. Tarif-ur-Rehman, 32, originally from Duttafulia in Ranaghat, Nadia, did his MMBS from Chittaranjan National Medical College.

Kolkata, Feb. 6: Speaker Hashim Abdul Halim was admitted to a Singapore hospital after he suffered acute respiratory problem.
Mr Halim had gone to Kuala Lumpur to attend a conference of the Commonwealth Parlia-mentary Association. He is the treasurer of the committee.

Kolkata, Feb. 6: Abdul Hype, better known as Kelo Bhola, one of the prime accused in the high-profile Vedic Village case, was shot dead near his house at Haora in North 24 Parganas on Saturday evening.

Kolkata, Feb. 6: A 46-year-old woman on Saturday died after she underwent a liver transplant in a state-run hospital here. It was being praised as a landmark surgery, but it ended in an anti-climax.

Kolkata, Feb. 6: Two youth from Kolkata — an MCA student and a first-year college student — who were heading for Digha to spend their weekend with two other friends, died after their car collided head on with a trailer in Kolaghat area early on Saturday. The two others, who were in the back seat, were admitted to a hospital in a critical state.

Kolkata, Feb. 5: The central committee of the CPI(M) on Friday agreed in principle to accept quotas for Muslims in government jobs and education as recommended by the Ranganath Mishra panel. But the Marxist party, which had been averse to reservations on

Kolkata, Feb. 5: Maoists on Friday called a 72-hour bandh in five states and partial bandh in three states to protest against talks, scheduled to be held here, between the state governments and the Centre on issues of price rise and internal security.

Kolkata, Feb. 5: The Calcutta high court upheld the capital punishment against Dubai-based gangster Aftab Ansari and one of his associates Jamiluddin Nasir, who were the prime accused in the American Centre attack case. The court, meanwhile, reduced the

Kolkata, Feb. 5: The death of 17-year-old Samta Maloo of still shrouded in mystery, a day after she was discovered in an unconscious state by the roadside at Ganesh Chandra Avenue. She was later declared brought dead in the hospital. Samta’s

Kolkata, Feb. 5: Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s proposal for joint operation against the Maoists has not found favours with his counterparts in neighbouring Bihar and Jharkhand. Significantly, days before the meeting between the chief ministers of