CID: suspicious hubby plotted wife’s murder
The criminal investigation department (CID) on Tuesday arrested the husband of the woman who, he had earlier alleged, was gangraped and murdered by a group of miscreants at a brick kiln in Barasat, No
Mamata govt hits back at governor
The Mamata Banerjee government on Thursday went on a collision course with governor M.K. Narayanan for expressing displeasure over the deterioration of law and order in Bhangar.
‘Madurai observatory may surpass Cern’
India is all set to build the prestigious Neutrino Observatory (INO) in Tamil Nadu which, in terms of the size of the equipment, will outshadow the facility at Cern, Geneva, that shot into prominence
Scientific temper needed, says PM
Hitting out at naysayers and activist community, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurating the centenary session of the Indian Science Congress (ISC) stressed the need for the development of a scient
PM opts out of discussion abruptly
A discussion by eminent scientists on “Science for Shaping the Future of India’ at the centenary session of the Indian Science Congress (ISC) was to be chaired by none other than Prime Minister Manmoh
Mamata meets pm first time after pullout
Leaving all recent acrimonies behind, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the centenary session of the Indian Science Congress at the Salt Lake
Rift within Trinamul comes to fore
The brewing discontent within the Trinamul Congress over the old guard versus new entrants came to the fore when two senior party MPs, Saugata Roy and Mukul Roy, crossed swords in public over the issu
Bengal: Protester who set self on fire dies
A man, who had attempted suicide by setting himself on fire in front of the Karaya police station on December 3, succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday afternoon.
‘Corruption in LF rule to be probed’
A departmental inquiry has been started into the alleged corruption cases in the panchayat department during the Left Front rule when Surjya Kanta Mishra was the panchayat affairs minister.
Prez’s son calls protesting women ‘dented and painted’
President Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijit stoked a major controversy by describing women participating in Delhi protests against gangrape of a student as ‘highly dented and painted’, triggering angry backlash.