Embarking on a damage control exercise, the Mamata Banerjee government on Thursday relented and allowed the state libraries and state government-aided libraries to stock five more newspapers.

One person was killed and three people were injured in a fire at a multi-storey residential building in Kolkata early on Friday, police said.

The fire broke out in South Kolkata's Golpark area. Polic

Undeterred by the wide-spread criticism over the circular directing government libraries to offer only a few selected government-friendly newspapers to their readers, the Mamata Banerjee government on Wednesday stuck to its decision.

Undeterred by the widespread criticism over the circular directing government libraries to offer only
a few selected governmentfriendly newspapers to their readers, the Mamata Banerjee government on
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Indian Premier League's leading wicket taker, Rudra Pratap Singh, may have been out of favour in India's scheme of things but the left-arm pacer is hoping that season five of the T20 tournament will b

Stoking a controversy, West Bengal government has banned English and mass-circulation Bengali dailies at state-sponsored and aided libraries in the state which will make available only eight selected

An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale rocked parts of West Bengal in the early hours of Wednesday, the MeT Dept said here.

The tremor, felt at 5.10 am, had its epicentre along the Biha

After spending 111 days in custody, two directors of the fire-ravaged AMRI Hospital were on Wednesday granted bail by the Calcutta High Court which observed that day-to-day affairs of the hospital wer

Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee had complained that she was not informed before the hike in the freight rates by the then railway minister Dinesh Trivedi, otherwise she would have not allowed it. Ms Banerjee’s hand-picked Mukul Roy, who has succeeded Mr Trivedi as the railway minister, however, has no plans to roll back the increased freight rates.

The Mamata Banerjee government and the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) may have agreed to accept whatever report the high power committee headed by Justice Shyamal Sen submits in June but the Adivasi Vik