Latest News from West Bengal, Breaking West Bengal News, West Bengal Headlines : Zee News

US youngsters teaching in Kolkata schools

Last Updated: Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 10:21

As cultural ambassadors of bilateral relations, a group of five youngsters from the United States of America are now teaching at different schools in Kolkata for a nine-month period.

After Ramlila fiasco, Mamata to hold workshop with TMC workers

Last Updated: Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 09:18

After her party`s flop show at Delhi`s Ramlila Maidan, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has cancelled her plans to hold a rally at Ahmedabad and decided to concentrate on running poll campaign in five West Bengal districts starting Wednesday.

CPI-M Bengal unit now on Facebook, Twitter

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 23:59

In a bid to draw the youth including the first-time voters, the CPI-M`s West Bengal unit Tuesday opened its Facebook account and unveiled a Twitter handle ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.

WB Transport dept to cancel taxi permits for passenger refusal

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 22:22

Heeding complaints that drivers of the new fleet of no-refusal taxis were refusing passengers on various pretexts, West Bengal Transport minister Madan Mitra warned them.

LS polls: Not easy for BJP to get requisite numbers, says Mamata Banerjee

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 22:19

Mamata Banerjee said that it would not be easy for the BJP to get requisite numbers to form government at the Centre after the coming Lok Sabha elections.

Army jawans save man who fell off bridge in WB

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 17:41

Four alert jawans on duty at a mooring station of the Army`s `Inland Water Transport` operational unit of engineers near Dakshineswar, saved a drowning man from Hooghly river, officials said on Tuesday.

CPI-M goes online to court young voters

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 17:08

The CPI(M) on Tuesday went online by logging into its Facebook account and Twitter handle, a move aimed at wooing young electors, a sizeable number of whom would be first-time voters in the coming Lok Sabha elections.

Five children injured in bomb blast in WB

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 13:15

At least five children were injured on Tuesday when a bomb they mistook as a ball went off at Haroa in North 24-Parganas district.

LS polls: Former President`s son to fight for TMC

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 13:12

Former President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed`s son Pervez Ahmed will contest as a Trinamool Congress candidate from Barpeta Lok Sabha constituency in Assam.

Muslim cleric wants Mamata Banerjee to support Congress

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 11:34

A Muslim cleric, considered close to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, has said that the firebrand leader should support the Congress.