Last Updated: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 10:05
Red envelopes stuffed with cash as gifts exchanged hands, and colourful dragon and lion dancers streamed in and out of decorated residences here Friday, ushering in the Chinese lunar New Year.
Last Updated: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 00:47
The All India Network of Sex Workers will set up RTI centres in the four metros - Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai - to enable community members get information from government officers in their fight to get their rightful place in society.
Last Updated: Friday, January 31, 2014, 20:15
Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, famous music director and singer Bappi Lahiri joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 14:20
Seventeen Trinamool Congress supporters, on their way to attend a party rally in Kolkata, were injured when a bus carrying them rammed into a tree at Guptipara in Hooghly district amidst dense fog.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 29, 2014, 20:29
An unidentified man jumped in front of a moving metro train this evening at Sovabazar underground station and died on the spot.
Last Updated: Monday, January 27, 2014, 16:27
The Calcutta High Court on Monday extended the stay on appointment of primary teachers in West Bengal on an allegation of irregularities by a section of the applicants.
Last Updated: Sunday, January 26, 2014, 14:43
West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan unfurled the Tricolour and took the salute at a colourful march-past as the eastern state joined the rest of the nation in celebrating the 65th Republic Day Sunday.
Last Updated: Sunday, January 26, 2014, 00:04
In yet another incident of misbehaviour by auto drivers, a 27-year-old woman was on Saturday assaulted by an auto-rickshaw driver here over change for Rs 50 currency note.
Last Updated: Friday, January 24, 2014, 19:45
The national capital has earned the dubious distinction of meting out maximum discrimination and harassment to women from northeast, a survey has said.
Last Updated: Friday, January 24, 2014, 19:31
In yet another incident of a kangaroo court "justice", a rape victim in West Bengal`s Burdwan district was offered Rs.1 lakh to "settle the issue" and not to approach the police.
Last Updated: Friday, January 24, 2014, 14:24
A local court on Friday remanded the 13 persons accused of the shocking gang-rape of a tribal girl in Birbhum district`s Labhpur village to 13 day police custody, a day after they were remanded to judicial custody for 14 days.
Last Updated: Friday, January 24, 2014, 00:34
Ahead of the Republic Day celebrations in West Bengal, a vehicle laden with explosives and bearing Chhatisgarh registration number was seized in Durgapur area of Burdwan district on Thursday.
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