The principal of La Martiniere for Boys, Sunirmal Chakravarthi has expressed regret for having caned Rouvanjit Rawla, the Class 8 student who committed suicide. He, however, does not accept the charge that the punishment led to the child’s death. “I am really sorry for caning him and I have already apologised but it is not fair to link the

Within a week after taking charge of the probe in the Gyaneswari Express sabotage, the CBI in a joint operation with the West Bengal police made its first arrest late on Monday night.

Viswanathan Anand dismissed Veselin Topalov’s comments about seeking assistance from former champions Gary Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik during the world championship tie. The Bulgarian, after losing 5.5-6.5 in the summit clash, had reportedly said that Anand should not have been proud in taking help from people who were ‘arrogant’ in their behaviour towards him.

The railways plan to provide free one-room flats to homeless squatters living next to railway tracks, railway minister Mamata Banerjee announced here Sunday. While the minister claimed this rehabilitation scheme will be for the entire country, political observers here believe this is targeted only at next year’s Assembly polls in West Bengal, in which Ms Banerjee, Trinamul Congress president, is determined to defeat the ruling Left Front.

Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee acknowledged Sunday that the Congress government in Madhya Pradesh headed by Arjun Singh had taken the decision in December 1984 to send Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson out of Bhopal in view of the deteriorating law and order situation there following the gas disaster.

Phillippe de Ridder’s fate was sealed almost immediately after the I-League 3.

Breaking their silence, the authorities at La Martiniere for Boys School issued a statement denying charges and expressing deep anguish at the death of Class 8 student Rouvanjit Rawla. The school authorities, however, voiced their unhappiness at “attempts to hold the school entirely responsible”.

Left red-faced by media reports that he had chanted Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee’s popular Ma, Mati, Manush slogan, CPI(M) state secretary Biman Bose on Thursday took pains to clarify his position.

Taking over the Gyaneswari Express sabotage probe, the Crime Branch of India registered a case on Wednesday. The special crime branch (SCB) of the Crime Branch of India registered the case (no 4/10) at its Kolkata office. Joint director (Kolkata Zone) of the CBI Suman Bala Sahoo is leading the probe.

Train services in the Kharagpur-Tata section were withdrawn on Wednesday after an alert was issued by the railway police that the Maoists are planning to carry out an explosion on the railway tracks in front of either Rajdhani Express or Duranto Express.