Kolkata: 12:15 pm: Modi says public and private partnership in the health sector will be beneficial in future. "In our country if a child falls into a tubewell, there is 24-hour running commentary. One child's misfortune has the entire country in tears but when in our neighbourhood, a mother dies while giving birth, no one seems to care," says the Gujarat Chief Minister. 12:04 pm: Modi hits out at the...
11:45 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Kolkata: The West Bengal panchayat polls case will come for for hearing in the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday. The State Election Commission and the West Bengal government are at loggerheads. Mamata Banerjee's government has proposed May 5 and May 8 as the new dates for panchayat polls but the EC wants to conduct polls in 3 phases. The state government moved an application before the court of Justice Biswanath...
08:37 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Kolkata: When Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee engages with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the national capital seeking financial assistance for debt-stressed West Bengal on Tuesday, her Gujarat counterpart and BJP poster boy Narendra Modi will have a much-awaited interface with Bengal industry captains in Kolkata. Bengal Inc is set to hear from Modi, who arrives on Monday night, the success story of his state when the flamboyant Gujarat chief minister...
06:25 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Kolkata: Ahead of her two-day visit to Delhi, West Bengal's Left Front on Monday accused Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee of looking at opportunities to realign with the Congress - its former coalition partner. "Her visit is an attempt at bargaining with the centre, to reinforce the alliance that had broken, thinking that it would help her party in the next Lok Sabha elections," said Leader of...
05:29 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Kolkata: Leaders East Bengal will look to take themselves closer to a pre-quarterfinal berth in the AFC Cup when they face struggling Tampines Rovers of Singapore at Yubabharati Krirangan here on Tuesday. The stadium will hold a football match seven days after it hosted the Indian Premier League Sixth Season opening ceremony. Having beaten the same side by a record 4-2 margin in an away match five days ago, East...
05:42 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said she had never sought a special package for her state and asserted that her two-day visit to Delhi starting on Monday had no political agenda. "I am not begging, neither am I demanding a special package (for West Bengal). But I want to know why Bengal is continuously being deprived. Despite all the problems that we are facing, Bengal is number one...
04:53 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Chennai: In a joint operation, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal Police arrested suspected Maoist Shyam Charan Tudu, wanted in the 2010 attack on a CRPF camp in West Bengal's Midnapore, from Coimbatore, police said on Sunday. "He was arrested at his residence around midnight on Saturday. The West Bengal Police, which had a tip off, sought our cooperation in the operation," Coimbatore Police Commissioner AK Viswanathan told IANS over phone...
06:00 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Kolkata: Academicians from across the country on Saturday expressed "horror" at the "brutal" police assault on students leading to the death of SFI leader Sudipta Gupta in police custody and demanded an "impartial" probe into the incident. In a statement, 45 educationists from leading institutes like Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Punjab University and Viswa Bharati University condemned the "unprovoked singular attack" on a "peaceful" students demonstration. The scholars said they...
01:59 AM, Apr 07, 2013
Kolkata: India's premier management institute, the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C) will get a new head Monday, said outgoing director Shekhar Chaudhuri in Kolkata on Saturday. "On April 8, I shall be handing over the charge of the Institute to director designate, Professor Saibal Chattopadhyay, a senior faculty member in the Operations Management Group of our institute," he said. "I have had the opportunity to work with him very...
11:50 PM, Apr 06, 2013
Jhargram: A local Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and four of his associates have been arrested in West Midnapore district of West Bengal on molestation and other charges lodged against them in March, police said on Saturday. Jaladhar Panda, Binpur block vice-president of Triamool Youth Congress, and four others were arrested on Friday night and produced before the court on Saturday. Jhargram ACJM Priyajit Chatterjee remanded them in jail custody till...
10:57 PM, Apr 06, 2013
Kolkata: Family members of Students Federation of India (SFI) leader Sudipto Gupta on Friday expressed disgust over West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee dubbing his death in police custody as a "petty" and "small" matter, and alleged he was "murdered" by police. "This is murder. The bus driver has reportedly said that he (Gupta) was forced out of the vehicle and beaten up. There were so many injury marks on...
04:30 AM, Apr 06, 2013
Salboni: 147 students in Salboni, a small town in Paschim Medinipur district in West Bengal, have taken ill after consuming their midday meal. The incident happened at Kalaimuri Netaji High School. Student were taken taken to the local hospital and were put under observation. More details are awaited. ...
09:56 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Delhi/Bengaluru: The BJP is expected to finalise its list of candidates for the May 5 Assembly polls at its election committee meet in Delhi on Thursday. Sources said that Sri Rama Sene founder Pramod Muthalik is likely to get a ticket from Belgaum (north) constituency in Karnataka. He is infamous for instigating an assault on girls at a pub in Mangalore in 2009. It is learnt that BJP is persuading...
06:56 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Kolkata: The bus driver who was accused of rash and negligent driving leading to the death of SFI activist Sudipto Gupta on Friday denied the allegations against him. He claimed that he was being framed by the Kolkata Police. The police had arrested Raja Das alleging that negligence on his part had led to Sudipto's death. Eyewitnesses, however, have a different story to tell. They have squarely blamed the police...
05:32 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Kolkata: The family of SFI activist Sudipto Gupta is expected to meet West Bengal Governor on Friday. Sudipto was killed after being allegedly beaten up by police during a crackdown on a SFI protest earlier this week. Citing dissatisfaction with police investigations, his family has demanded a CBI probe. The police, however, insists that Sudipto died after hitting a lamp post. To back up their claims, the Kolkata Police on...
05:17 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Kolkata/Bangalore: With SFI supporters holding protests in West Bengal over the death of SFI leader Sudipto Gupta, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday stoked further controversy by terming the death as a 'small and petty' incident. "It is a small and petty matter. It was an accident, there was no police atrocity. You can see the post-mortem report," she said in Bangalore where she went to confer West Bengal's prestigious...
10:39 PM, Apr 04, 2013
Student activist Sudipto Gupta died in a police crackdown on a students' protest in Kolkata. The incident has seen thousands of people pour into the streets of Kolkata. The West Bengal government has been, till now, non-committal about a proper probe into the incident. To what extent will this incident turn the urban middle class in West Bengal against the ruling Trinamool Congress? Will a proper probe be instituted? How...
07:06 PM, Apr 04, 2013
Kolkata: Doyen of ancient Indian history Professor Bratindra Nath Mukherjee, who deciphered many ancient scripts, died on Thursday at his residence after a protracted illness, his family said. 79-year-old Mukherjee is survived by his wife and son. A Padmashri winner, Mukherjee was a former Carmichael professor in the department of ancient Indian history, Calcutta University and was the only scholar from India who knew central Asian languages, including Sogdian (Eastern...
06:25 PM, Apr 04, 2013
Kolkata: The Kolkata Police on Thursday stated that the final post-mortem report of SFI activist Sudipto Gupta was yet to come out and that the initial report had shown that the 23-year-old student died due to a head injury inflicted by hitting a stationary object and then hitting a rough structure after that. The police have, since the beginning, been alleging that Gupta died after hitting a lamp post and...
04:35 PM, Apr 04, 2013
