After much delay, the state government has finally sent a part of the Sourin Roy Committee report of the Stephen Court tragedy to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC). The committee has mentioned irregularities from the KMC’s part. Mayor Sovan Chatterjee has expressed his displeasure on not receiving the full report. He

The junior doctors called an indefinite cease work at the Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital from Wednesday afternoon after three of them along with a security guard were beaten up during a rampage by the angry family members of a deceased patient alleging medical negligence.

A portion of the Writers’ Buildings, including chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s chamber plunged into darkness for around 15 minutes in the afternoon due to a snag in one of the transformers at the state secretariat.

Manoj Mahato, the newly-elected secretary of the People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA), announced on Wednesday that the PCPA being a “non-violent and apolitical outfit” will also be present in the Lalgarh rally on August 9 where Union railway minister Mamata Banerjee, human rights activist Medha Patkar and social activist Swami Agnivesh will be present.

The CPI(M) satraps who have landed in a soup after giving a miss to the first death anniversary of party leader Subhas Chakraborty following the whip from party general secretary Prakash Karat on Tuesday, have decided to mark the 122nd birth anniversary of party founder-member Muzaffar Ahmed on Thursday with all renewed zeal.

Serious disaffection has surfaced in the state Congress only weeks after the appointment of Manas Bhunia as the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC) president. Over half a dozen former Congress district presidents left for Delhi to lodge their protest over their unceremonious removal. “We will meet Congress president Mrs Sonia Gandhi and AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi and apprise them of our grievances,” former Nadia district president Shankar Singh said.

Showing a gesture to his alliance partner Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee’s over charges that the Marxist party has set up a suicide squad to eliminate her, Union finance minister Pranab Mukhe

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested a member of the Maoist-backed People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA) for his alleged involvement in the sabotage of the Gyaneswari Expre

Trinamul Congress chief and railway minister Mamata Banerjee made a sensational charge against the ruling CPI(M) on Saturday alleging that it has set up a “suicide squad” to “eliminate” her ahead of the Assembly elections in the state.

Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said adequate security would be provided to railway minister Mamata Banerjee who had alleged that a conspiracy was being hatched by the CPI(M) to eliminate her.