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.

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.

After spending more than five months in jail, CPI(M) MLA Sushanta Ghosh received a breather on Friday when the Supreme Court granted him interim bail in the Benachapra human skeleton recovery case, relating to the slaughter of seven Trinamul Congress activists on September 22, 2002.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed will not be attending the annual convocation ceremony of the Calcutta University (CU). Governor M.K. Narayanan, who is also the chancellor of the varsity, on Thursday said that the Bangladesh Prime Minister, who was to deliver the convocation speech as a chief guest, would be giving the programme a miss. “I do not think she is coming,” Mr Narayanan said in reply to a question on the sidelines of a programme organised by the Indian Museum.

A day after cancellation of the official release of her book at the Kolkata Book Fair following protests, controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen on Thursday claimed that three Bengali direct

In a near rerun of Jaipur Literature Festival, the official launch of controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen’s new book Nirbasan (Exile) was unceremoniously cancelled at the Kolkata Book Fair by the Publishers and Booksellers Guild after protests by some Muslim organisations on Wednesday.

The state government will bring an amendment to the West Bengal Service Rules (Duties and Obligation) Act to withdraw the full trade union right of the state government employees in the next session of the West Bengal Assembly. State labour minister Purnendu Bose said that the labour department would make a proposal in this regard in the state Cabinet soon.

Facing flak for the power failure during former Pakistan cricket captain and president of Tehreek-e-Insaf Party Imran Khan’s programme at the Kolkata Literary Meet, the organisers of the event on Tues

This “suitable boy” of India prefers to indulge in some plainspeak when it comes to fiddling with fringe topics. For the erstwhile boy of Bengal’s Batanagar hates beating around the bush.

To promote tourism in the Sundarbans, the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal is planning to introduce an African safari kind of expedition in the area.