Kolkata is all set to get a makeover, thanks to the Mamata Banerjee government. As part of giving the city a 'London type look', the West Bengal government has announced plans to play Rabindranath Tag

A race has begun in the state Congress for the lone Rajya Sabha seat which the party is entitled to in the election for Upper House which will take place later in July. The terms of five Rajya Sabha MPs in the state will come to an

The chief minister’s office (CMO) will continue to remain headless. Sanjay Mitra, who had been earlier tipped off to be the principal secretary to chief minister Mamata Banerjee, is returning to the state government on Tuesday but he is not being posted as principal secretary.Mr Mitra, a 1982-batch IAS officer of the Bengal cadre, was posted at the PMO as its joint secretary since November 22, 2004.

To ensure the presence of Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who has had played truant and given a couple of party politburo and central committee meetings a miss, CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat has decided to hold the next politburo meet in Kolkata in August.

A senior official of a hotel at Dhanbad in Jharkhand, has gone missing under mysterious circumstances.

Urging industrialists to invest in West Bengal, state commerce and industries minister Partha Chatterjee assured them on Saturday that availability of land would not be a problem for development projects.

The Universal Success Enterprises (USE) on Friday submitted fresh investment proposals of `20,000 crores to the new government led by the Trinamul Congress which has assumed office on May 20. USE promoter Prasoon Mukherjee called on state commerce and industries minister Partha Chatterjee with his proposals of setting up power plants, industrial park and eco-tourism facility at Nayachar.

The West Bengal government has ruled out any negligence in the treatment and death of the 18 new-borns at Dr B.C. Roy Hospital for Children. State health secretary Manabendra Nath Roy informed this on Friday citing the findings of a three-member inquiry committee which virtually gave a clean chit to the doctors at the hospital. “The

Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday lashed out against the BJP and the CPI(M) for trying to destabilise the elected government by cashing in on the civil society’s movement over the Lokpal bill issue.

Launching a scathing attack against the CPI(M), Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said that the people of the country had totally rejected the Left which was now confined to only one state. “The Left has become irrelevant in India’s polity because the majority of the people of the country have rejected them. The reason for the