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TMC does not endorse Tapas Pal`s comment: Derek O`Brien

Last Updated: Monday, June 30, 2014, 20:30

Trinamool Congress said on Monday that the party did not endorse MP Tapas Pal`s `insensitive` comment against women.

Left Front supports CBI probe into Bengal triple murder

Last Updated: Monday, June 30, 2014, 19:55

Claiming that there were attempts to shield the guilty, the Left Front Monday supported the demand for a CBI probe into a 2010 triple murder in West Bengal`s Birbhum district in which a Trinamool Congress lawmaker is allegedly involved.

Caught on camera: TMC MP Tapas Pal openly threatens rape, murder

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 1, 2014, 00:46

In a brazen, ludicrous and insensitive statement, Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Pal openly threatened to send `his boys` and get women of Opposition party raped.

Narayanan officially leaving on July 4: Mamata

Last Updated: Monday, June 30, 2014, 19:52

Refraining from commenting on the resignation of state Governor M K Narayanan, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that Narayanan was officially leaving on July 4.

Left to seek Centre`s help in reopening Bengal tea gardens

Last Updated: Monday, June 30, 2014, 15:43

In the wake of six alleged starvation deaths in a closed tea estate in West Bengal, the opposition Left Front Monday said it would seek the central government`s intervention in reopening several such gardens.

WB to invest Rs 1000 crore for higher education infrastructure

Last Updated: Monday, June 30, 2014, 15:39

West Bengal government is investing Rs 1000 crore to create more infrastructure in higher education so that general category students are not affected when reservation for OBCs begin in the state, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Monday.

Mamata flays Centre over food security act

Last Updated: Monday, June 30, 2014, 15:37

Blaming the Centre for the non-implementation of the Food Security Act in West Bengal so far, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday said the union government has failed to put in place a proper law and decide on the funding for the scheme.

Somanath Chatterjee suffers mild cerebral stroke

Last Updated: Monday, June 30, 2014, 14:52

Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee has been admitted to a private hospital here after suffering a mild cerebral stroke.

MLA, 3 others injured in accident

Last Updated: Monday, June 30, 2014, 14:44

An MLA and three others were injured today when the car they were travelling in hit a dumper coming from the other side on NH-5 at Uluberia in Howrah district.

Arun Shourie calls for fire-walling strategic establishments

Last Updated: Monday, June 30, 2014, 00:36

Observing that conventional warfare has given way to cyber warfare, former union IT minister Arun Shourie lamented India`s "unpreparedness" and called for firewalling strategic establishments.