News 360: 2 dead, 6 injured in freak road accident in Mumbai

A freak 18-vehicle pile-up in Mumbai left two people dead and six injured. ...
09:21 PM, Apr 12, 2013

Mamata not taking responsibility for attack on Presidency University: Students

Two days after Presidency University was vandalised by alleged Trinamool Congress workers, the Governor addressed students at the campus on Friday evening. ...
07:10 PM, Apr 12, 2013

Will quit if charges against me are proved: TMC leader seen at Presidency

Partha Basu, a Trinamool Congress (TMC) councillor, was photographed at the Presidency University gates during the attack there. He denied any hand in the hooliganism inside the university. ...
05:55 PM, Apr 12, 2013

West Bengal politics spills over to its college campuses

A day after the attack on Presidency University by alleged Trinamool Congress supporters, students and the faculty marched in protest in Kolkata. ...
11:28 PM, Apr 11, 2013

Presidency University violence: Campuses caught in crossfire between TMC, CPM?

The staff and students of Presidency University in Kolkata on Thursday submitted a memorandum to West Bengal Governor over the attack on their campus a day ago by suspected Trinamool Congress youth wing workers. ...
11:20 PM, Apr 11, 2013

News 360: Won't accept any party post till I'm cleared of charges in 1984 riots, says Tytler

Former Union Minister Jagdish Tytler broke his silence, a day after a Delhi court rejected the CBI clean chit to him in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. Tytler said he will not take any party post till he's cleared of all charges. ...
09:32 PM, Apr 11, 2013

WB Governor must explain his remarks on SFI protests: Yechury

CPM General Secretary Prakash Karat wrote a letter to the President against the Governor's statement condemning alleged violence by Left parties and seeking an apology for the attack that took place in the capital. ...
08:17 PM, Apr 11, 2013

TMC leader present at Presidency University during attack, reveals TV footage

A local Trinamool Congress councillor was a part of the mob that went berserk and rampaged Presidency University in Kolkata on Wednesday, a new picture has revealed. ...
05:37 PM, Apr 11, 2013

Has Mamata vs Left become politics of vendetta and violence?

Members of the TMC's youth wing barged into Presidency University in Kolkata on Wednesday, ransacking its historic science lab, the Baker Laboratory, apart from assaulting a few teachers. ...
11:55 PM, Apr 10, 2013

Kolkata: Will Mamata be able to control the rampaging TMC workers?

The historic Presidency University attacked, hundreds of CPM party offices ransacked and some even torched by TMC workers, just hours after their party chief Mamata Banerjee and state Finance Minister Amit Mitra were heckled in Delhi, West Bengal has seen some very uneasy hours. ...
11:26 PM, Apr 10, 2013

SFI activist death: An accident or a case of police brutality?

SFI activist Sudipto Gupta was killed in alleged police crackdown on a protest by the students organisation in Kolkata on Tuesday. ...
11:37 PM, Apr 03, 2013

WB PSU fraud a neat, well-organised scam: Congress

In this season of scams, a new one has been unearthed, this time in West Bengal and a senior state government leader is said to be allegedly involved. ...
07:50 PM, Apr 02, 2013

India @ 9 with Rajdeep Sardesai

A day after the DMK pulled out of the UPA, the government scrambled to bring a consensus on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue but all efforts were in vain as the all-party meeting ended in complete disagreement. ...
11:58 PM, Mar 20, 2013

Is Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary fit to be a Union Minister?

In a shocking incident in WB, workers of the Congress party trashed the home of the District Magistrate of Murshidabad, led by no less than Union Minister of State for Railways, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary. ...
11:33 PM, Feb 07, 2013

Is creative freedom under serious threat in India?

It's a war of words between author Salman Rushdie and the West Bengal government. The author on Friday alleged that he was forced to cancel his trip to Kolkata after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ordered the police to block his arrival. ...
11:55 PM, Feb 01, 2013

Mamata blocks Rushdie's arrival in Kolkata, TMC defends her order

As West Bengal Chief Minister blocked author Salman Rushdie from entering Kolkata to promote Deepa Mehta's film 'Midnight's Children', Trinamool Party leaders have come out in her defence saying she did nothing wrong. "There is nothing shameful, I am congratulating the state government for taking the right decision," said Sultan Ahmed. ...
08:31 PM, Feb 01, 2013

India @ 9 with Rajdeep Sardesai

Delhi gangrape case trial set to begin, chargesheet runs into 1000 pages. TMC suspends workers who heckled dancers, says expulsion likely. ...
11:58 PM, Jan 02, 2013

Newsmaker of the Day: Derek O'Brien

The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday condemned its workers who were caught on camera heckling and throwing money at hired women dancers at its founding day party. ...
11:49 PM, Jan 02, 2013

TMC workers' act has demeaned women: NCW chief

Trinamool Congress workers were caught on video heckling and throwing money at hired women dancers at their founding day party on Tuesday. ...
02:24 PM, Jan 02, 2013

TMC leader's statement on Park Street rape shameful: Victim

The victim of the Park Street rape case said that the statement of Kakoli Ghosh was shameful. ...
09:35 PM, Dec 28, 2012