With the aim to enable the West Bengal Commission for Backward Classes to examine any reference from the state government regarding inclusion or deletion of any backward group in and from the list of backward classes respectively, the state government on Tuesday introduced the West Bengal Commission for Backward Classes (Amendment) Bill, 2010, in the Assembly, which was also passed.

Four persons were arrested on Tuesday in connection with the trafficking of 5,000 rounds of ammunition through Kolkata. It is suspected that the seized ammunition of .315 bore were meant for the Naxals who also use cartridges of the same make.

No power on earth can finish off the Congress, newly-appointed West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC) president Manas Bhuniya said on Tuesday. He was replying to a question as to what would be his response if the ally Trinamul Congress continued to engineer defection from the state Congress.

Bapi Mahato, the alleged mastermind of the Gyaneswari Express sabotage, on Tuesday made a judicial confession of 11 pages on his role in the carnage. His confession was sealed in a cover for its secrecy following the completion of its recording under the Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure.

The state CID on Tuesday arrested five Maoists — Madhusudan Mandal, 44, Sachin Ghoshal, 42, Rajesh Mandal, 19, Siddhartha Mandal, 36, and Sanjay Mandal, 42 — from South 24 Parganas. While Madhusudan, alias Narayan, had spearheaded the Nandigram movement in 2007 from behind the scenes, Sachin is a senior member of the Maoist technical wing. All five have been booked under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).

The state CID on Tuesday arrested five Maoists — Madhusudan Mandal, 44, Sachin Ghoshal, 42, Rajesh Mandal, 19, Siddhartha Mandal, 36, and Sanjay Mandal, 42 — from South 24 Parganas. While Madhusudan, alias Narayan, had spearheaded the Nandigram movement in 2007 from behind the scenes, Sachin is a senior member of the Maoist technical wing. They have been booked under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.

The state CID on Tuesday arrested five Maoists — Madhusudan Mandal, 44, Sachin Ghoshal, 42, Rajesh Mandal, 19, Siddhartha Mandal, 36, and Sanjay Mandal, 42 — from South 24 Parganas. While Madhusudan, alias Narayan, had spearheaded the Nandigram movement in 2007 from behind the scenes, Sachin is a senior member of the Maoist technical wing. They have been booked under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.

Bapi Mahato, the alleged mastermind of the Gyaneswari Express sabotage, on Tuesday made a judicial confession of 11 pages on his role in the carnage. His confession was sealed in a cover for its secrecy following the completion of its recording under the Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure.

Cement maker Birla Corporation on Tuesday got the shareholders’ approval to venture into diverse areas such as coal mining, real estate, power generation, construction as well as jetty operations.

Kolkatans had their first taste of waterlogging this monsoon when a number of city roads were submerged following a 90-minute downpour on Monday morning. From south to north, streets after streets remained waterlogged even hours after the rains stopped. “This was the first test of the Trinamul Congress-controlled new civic board at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation. Sadly it failed in it,” said Tarun Sarkar, a shopkeeper in Hazra.