Gurjant Singh, the driver of the truck that had intruded into railway minister Mamata Banerjee’s convoy at Kolaghat when she was returning to Kolkata after her rally at Lalgarh on August 9, was granted interim bail by a Tamluk court on Wednesday. However, Gurjant would not be allowed to leave West Bengal till the next court hearing on September 8.

The Madan Tamang murder case took a new twist on Wednesday after the slain Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League president’s widow, Bharati Tamang demanded a CBI probe into her husband’s murder. She made this demand following the death of Raju Tamang, the security guard of her son Sanjog, under mysterious circumstances.

Taking a leaf out of the book of stalwarts like the late Promode Dasgupta, P.C. Joshi and P. Sundarayya, the CPI(M) leadership wants to give greater responsibilities to young, energetic and articulate party leaders.

New Town, Rajarhat will have a new name from October 1: Jyoti Basu Nagar. A children’s park is also being named after the former chief minister whose statue will also occupy a pride of place in the township. Announcing this on Wednesday, state housing minister Gautam Deb said, “A programme will be organised on October 1 to make the occasion memorable. Chief minister and senior Left Front leaders will be present. I will also invite Mamata Banerjee and the Congress leaders.”

After addressing a rally at Lalgarh on August 9, Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee will address a rally in the city on August 28 on the occasion of Trinamul Chhatra Parishad’s foundation day. The rally will be organised at the foot of Mahatma Gandhi’s statue. “Just as the Chhatra Parishad had played a key role against the

Tata Global Beverages Ltd, formerly Tata Tea, is planning to add foods and fortified health drinks to its portfolio of products that currently includes tea and non-carbonated drinks.

Railway minister Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, unfazed by the combined Left-BJP onslaught over her Lalgarh remarks, strongly defended her stand on Maoists, including her claim that their leader Azad was “murdered”.

The CPI(M) has on Wednesday questioned the locus standi of Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee to be the mediator for peace talks as proposed by Maoist leader Koteshwar Rao, alias Kishenji.

Former All India Football Federation secretary Ashoke Ghosh died of a massive heart attack at his residence here in the wee hours of Thursday. Ghosh, 78, has a son and a daughter.

Only months after Rouvanjit Rawla, a Class 8 student of La Martiniere for Boys, committed suicide allegedly following corporal punishment, yet another student of a city school tried to end his life by consuming sleeping pills allegedly after being reprimanded by his Hindi teacher. An FIR was lodged by the student’s father at the Kalighat police station and the teacher was arrested on Tuesday on the basis of the suicide note found in the boy’s school notebook.