Two teenaged girls, in school uniforms, jumped off the rooftop of a multi-storey housing complex in the city following an alleged quarrel with their guardians on Tuesday evening.

Underscoring his national political ambitions prior to the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday launched a frontal attack on the Congress, saying the ruling party's reputation has diminished for it is riddled with scams and it was high time for his party to take charge.

While West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has started touring the districts to oversee the development programmes in a bid to woo the voters for the upcoming panchayat polls, the Marxists in We

Former chief minister and CPI(M) politburo member Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Sunday acknowledged that some of the CPI(M) leaders had started considering themselves masters of the people.

A girl was forcibly taken in a taxi from Chakraberia area to Rajarhat in the city outskirts by two youths on Saturday evening but local people came to her rescue, police said.

The girl was forcibly

State commerce and industries and IT minister Partha Chatterjee’s meeting with Infosys officials proved fruitful and the stalemate over the proposed second Infosys campus seemed to be heading for a re

Will the stalemate over the proposed second campus of Infosys at Rajarhat-New Town be resolved soon?

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said that the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education’s plans to conduct centralised exams for Class 9 would be scrapped and responsibility would remain wi

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee figures in the list of 50 most influential people in the world of finance as rated by Bloomberg Markets magazine.

"Her Trinamool Congress party, part o

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday reeled off seven-year-old figures to establish her point that the dengue situation in the state was much worse in 2005 during the Left Front rule