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Sushanta gets a hero’s welcome

CPI(M) MLA Sushanta Ghosh given a hero’s welcome by his party leaders and cadres on Tuesday when he was released from the Alipore Central Correctional Home, four days after the Supreme Court granted h

PRANAB LAUDS MAMATA FOR INFLATION CHECK

Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday praised West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee for her effort to check high inflation by improving supply of food grains in the state.

Bengal, Centre spar over aid

State finance minister Amit Mitra on Monday rejected Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi’s statement that the Centre had given `8,000 crores package to the Mamata Banerjee government.

Bengal hospital gives cat-bite jab to child instead of mother

The sorry state of affairs in West Bengal's government hospitals once again came to the fore when a eight-year-old boy was injected a cat-bite antidote instead of his mother at a medical facility on T

CPM to target Congress, BJP

Sticking to its stand of maintaining equidistance from the Congress and the BJP, the CPI(M), in its draft political resolution to be adopted in the 20th party Congress slated to be held in Kerala in A

Tintin-inspired Timpa in Kolkata adventures

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A new spin-off of popular Tintin comics takes the adventurous childhood explorer and his goofy grandfather to Kolkata.

2G verdict will have no impact on foreign investments: Moily

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The Supreme Court judgment regarding cancellation of 2G licences will have no impact on the inflow of foreign investments in the country, Corporate Affairs Minister Veerappa Moily said here Monday.

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Bengal gives second language status to Urdu in 18 areas

West Bengal government on Friday accorded second language status to Urdu specially in those areas where over 10 per cent of population as per 2001 and 2010 census speaks the language.

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MBBS must serve 3 years in rural areas: Mamata

Dealing sternly with young doctors’ reluctance to work in rural areas, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who is also the state health minister, made it mandatory for fresh MBBS graduates to serve the first three years of their career in the interior areas of the state.

19 babies die in 2 days in Bengal

Nineteen babies have died in two days in two district hospitals even as West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee claimed that a baseless canard was being spread of crib deaths to malign her government.

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