At a time when chief minister Mamata Banerjee is repeatedly urging the doctors and nurses to serve the patients with a human face, a patient died at the SSKM Hospital in Kolkata on Friday after his penis was allegedly nibbled by rats.

The days of “courtesy politics” between the Mamata Banerjee-government and the Opposition Left Front seems to be over after the government completed 200 days in the office. One allegation after another levelled by the state government against the Left Front, particularly the CPI(M), during the winter session of the Assembly, which concluded on Friday soured the relations.

Authorities at the state-run SSKM hospital on Saturday ordered an enquiry into the death of a patient after he was allegedly bitten by a rat.

A 53-year-old patient, who was admitted to the SSKM hospi

The CPI(M) is facing acute dearth of young leaders who could take the mantle from old war horses like Biman Bose and Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. Sources revealed, that party satraps feel that at this critical juncture, young dynamic leaders could give the party a new lease of life just as Subhas Chakraborty, Shymal Chakraborty and Anil Biswas had done in the late 60s.

The West Bengal government on Thursday alleged that the CPI(M) was hatching a conspiracy to kill people in the state.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee herself accused the CPI(M) of spreading rumours that water supplied from the Nodakhali water supply project in South 24 Parganas was poisoned.

A major fire that broke out at a slipper manufacturing unit in the city's Tiljala area couldn't be controlled till early this morning, officials said.

No casualties or injuries were reported after th

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Who will make it to the politburo of the CPI(M)? Will it be Surya Kanta Mishra, Gautam Deb or Shymal Chakraborty?

At a time when chief minister Mamata Banerjee (who is also the state health minister) is repeatedly asking the medical staff to serve the patients with a “human face”, an on-duty sweeper in a drunken

Within a day of the assault on a headmaster by a group of Trinamul Congress activists at Jadavpur Vidyapeath, chief minister and party supremo Mamata Banerjee acted tough leading to the arrest of a pa