
Congress MP Vijay Bhauguna was finally sworn in as Chief Minister but party strongman Harish Rawat and his ministers boycotted the ceremony. ...

10:02 PM, Mar 13, 2012

New Delhi: The Calcutta High Court is expected to give its verdict on the bail plea of 5 directors of the AMRI hospital on Friday. A total of 9 directors and four employees were arrested in connection with the fire that claimed over 90 lives. Up until now, only one of them - Dr Moni Chetri, in whose name the hospital's licence was given - has been granted bail, on...

09:19 AM, Feb 17, 2012

Kolkata: A city court on Monday sent two officers of AMRI Hospital, where 93 people died in a fire, to judicial custody till January five. Chief Judicial Magistrate of Alipore court S M Shahnawaz sent Sanjib Pal and S Upadhayay, who were in police custody, to judicial custody on a prayer by the prosecution. Pal declined to give a statement before the court despite earlier expressing a desire to do...

08:29 AM, Dec 27, 2011

Kolkata: Legendary Filmmaker Yash Chopra Wednesday requested the central government to take steps to end the menace of piracy. "Whenever a film releases, the first to get benefit out of it are film pirates. Our existence is at stake due to this. The center needs should do something," Chopra said. Chopra regretted that most of the government officials don't know how to use the law for dealing with the people...

10:29 AM, Dec 15, 2011

Kolkata: Acclaimed film director Goutam Ghose today said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee should ensure that a treaty is signed between India and Bangladesh for regular cultural exchanges. "I would request her to talk to New Delhi and see that a treaty between the two countries is signed on this. There is a huge market waiting for Bengali cinema," Ghose said at a programme organised by Calcutta Chamber of...

01:42 PM, Nov 26, 2011
Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh police has denied that Maoist leader Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad was killed at point blank range. Andhra Pradesh police chief R.R. Girish Kumar denied on Saturday that Azad was killed in a stage-managed gunfight and termed it as a "real and genuine" one. The director general of police said a section of vested interest groups at the behest of the outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist)...

08:05 AM, Aug 29, 2010

Talks between Cong and DMK broke down over Cabinet portfolios. ...

01:55 AM, May 22, 2009

The Congress is ruling out a Common Minimum Programme this time. ...

11:47 PM, May 20, 2009

Congress not interested in a post-poll alliance with CPI-M, says Mamata. ...

12:02 AM, May 12, 2009

The alliance game is on in full force ahead of the polls. ...

08:01 AM, Mar 02, 2009

There is a possibility Cong may tie up with TMC for the Lok Sabha polls. ...

03:30 AM, Jan 15, 2009

Ratan Tata asked people of WB to support the Buddhadeb government. ...

03:35 PM, Oct 17, 2008

These are the people who willingly gave up their land to Tata Motors. ...

08:15 PM, Oct 09, 2008

It was a clear victory for Trinamool chief and the farmers of Singur are happy. ...

10:22 AM, Sep 08, 2008