At least 55 people were killed, most due to suffocation, in a massive fire at the AMRI hospital in south Kolkata early on Friday. Many more are believed to be trapped in the building, even as firemen, who many complained had reached the spot only after two hours, brought out the dead and injured using ropes and ladders.

Rescuers brought out seemingly dead patients as anxious relatives stared, hoping their worst fears would not come true, as thick black smoke billowed from the Annex 1 new building of Kolkata's AMRI ho

The death toll in the fire tragedy in the AMRI hospital in south Kolkata early Friday has shot up to 61, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said here.

She said 41 of the bodies had been broug

With the win of Subrata Bakshi by a massive margin in Kolkata South Lok Sabha seat, the victory march of the Trinamul Congress goes on.

The central government has decided to keep on hold the decision to allow 51 per cent foreign equity in retail till a consensus emerged on the issue, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on

The Central government has decided to keep on hold its the decision to allow foreign equity in retail till a consensus emerged on the issue, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Saturday after talking to Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee.

Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday refused to react to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's comment that the central government has decided to keep on hold its decision to all

The CPI(M) which believes in “democratic centralism”, used to describe indiscipline, intra-party feud and open demonstration of disagreement with party leadership as vices of the bourgeois parties. But it seems that these vices are now creeping into a regimented party like the CPI(M).

Is a rift brewing between the West Bengal bureaucracy and chief minister Mamata Banerjee?

The Dalai Lama on Thursday termed as 'quite routine' the Chinese objections to India allowing him a platform to air his views, saying they consider him as a 'demon' even though his position now is 'se