Tension brews over smoke at city hospital
Smoke billowing from the emergency ward of the state-run SSKM Hospital on Wednesday led to several patients being shifted outside for their safety, police said.
According to the police, the smoke was
'Osama' on stage in Kolkata
Osama Bin Laden has been resurrected in Kolkata! One of the most controversial characters of world history is now being portrayed on the popular stage theatre of Bengal.
Top Maoist techie nabbed in Kolkata
Top Maoist functionary from Andhra Pradesh, Sadanala Ramakrishna, was arrested along with four other rebels from Kolkata in a successful joint operation by the Andhra Pradesh police and the special ta
Exclusive: Centre seeking Kolkata rape report
With the Trinamul chief, Mamata Banerjee gunning for the Centre from issues ranging from FDI to NCTC, the Home ministry intends to strike back by seeking a report from the West Bengal government over
Metro passengers evacuated after smoke detection
Hundreds of passengers of a Metro train had to be evacuated on Tuesday as a precautionary measure after smoke billowed out from the bottom of a coach, officials said.
As the train arrived at Maidan s
Kolkata gangrape: Several demand Mamata Banerjee apologise to victim after conspiracy claim
Mamata Banerjee is in the centre of fresh controversy following the case of an Anglo-Indian woman's gangrape in Kolkata's famous Park Street early this month.
Taking on the Chief Minister for describ
Rape case handling shows Mamata in poor light
The efforts of the West Bengal administration, led by the state's first woman Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, to play down an Anglo-Indian woman's complaint of being 'raped at gun point' after late ni
Didi desires to daub Kolkata in white and blue
India's famed 'pink city' Jaipur will now have a rival in blue-and-white Kolkata, with the eastern metropolis' parks, road railings, flyovers, taxis and even tree trunks being repainted in the new col
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
Tasleema Nasreen’s book launch at Kolkata Book Fair cancelled
Bangladeshi author Tasleema Nasreen's book launch at the Kolkata Book Fair has been cancelled following objections from some religious extremist groups.