Battling charges that the then Central government had a role to play in the 1995 Purulia district arms-dropping episode, the government appeared to go on overdrive on Saturday to refute this allegation. The allegation has been recently levelled by one of the masterminds of the operation Kim Davy, whose extradition from Denmark to face trial here has been sought for long by the Indian government.

Defending his industrialisation drive, chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Saturday said that he had wanted to make Nandigram into another Haldia, a prominent industrial town with a port but the Trinamul Congress had sabotaged his plans through a sustained misinformation campaign. Addressing election rallies in Heria

The crime branch has arrested three Nigerians from Seelampur for running a fake Internet lottery racket. The police said the accused used to send SMSs and fake e-mail of lottery wins through email address espn2011draw@msn.com to victims. They used advanced software to ensure that their host server could not be traced.

Tearing into chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee for sharing stage with “censured” CPI(M) leader Anil Basu at an election rally at Arambagh in Hooghly district, Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said that their bonhomie exposed the duplicity of the Marxists. “The CPI(M) has a real face and also a mask. One is white and the other black. One will call someone a thief and the other will reprimand him,” she alleged. She was addressing an election rally at Pandua in Highly

Having registered cases in connection with alleged irregularities involving the members of the Organising Committee (OC), the CBI has now begun moving towards other agencies involved in the Commonwealth Games and accused of malpractices. The CBI has registered an FIR, related to the Games project involving Delhi

The government late on Saturday evening alerted the department of space and the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) for help in locating the whereabouts of the missing helicopter carrying Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Dorjee Khandu and four others. Union home secretary G.K. Pillai said in New Delhi that Indian satellites

Hours after claiming that the missing Pawan Hans Helicopter carrying Arunachal chief minister Dorjee Khandu had landed safely, the Arunachal Pradesh government retracted and said the chief minister and the helicopter were traceless since taking off from Tawang on Saturday.

After AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi, Congressman and Union minister Kapil Sibal too seems to be showering praise on Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar for the development work done in his state. But Mr Sibal, a top lawyer that he is, used legal jargon to praise Mr Kumar. He brought the Supreme Court into the picture in his jovial

Asked whether he tried to give a clean chit to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the 2G issue, Public Accounts Committee chairman Murli Manohar Joshi on Saturday said, “I have not given a clean chit to anybody. The PM remained a mute spectator (to the 2G scam), that is what the report has mentioned.” The report had criticised the

The world finally witnessed the most awaited “wedding of the decade” with bated breath and instantly fell in love with the simplicity of Kate Middleton’s look. Kate wore a long-sleeved lace and ivory satin design by Sarah Burton, the creative director for the late Alexander McQueen and won with gasps from the audience and thunderous applause.