If the Assembly elections meant the ouster from power in West Bengal to the CPI(M) in 2011, the forthcoming panchayat elections is going to be more dreadful for the party in comparison.

Former CPI(M) MP Anil Basu, who had threatened to drag state party secretary and politburo member Biman Bose to court for his suspension, is under the knife of expulsion from the party.

A police officer’s daughter and her four male friends, all heavily drunk, were arrested by the Gariahat police in Kolkata for allegedly slapping a taxi driver for refusing to take them and then thrash

A young BPO professional was found dead in mysterious circumstances at Elliot Road on Wednesday morning after his colleagues and elder brother allegedly locked him up in a sedan in a drunken state and

A Jadavpur University professor was assaulted by a group of Trinamul workers and then arrested by the police along with his neighbour on cyber crime charges for posting a cartoon which allegedly denig

Damayanti Sen, the joint commissioner of Kolkata police (crime) who had led the detective department (DD) in cracking the Park Street gangrape case puncturing chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s claims o

A day after the criminal investigation department (CID) claimed that former CPI(M) MP Lakshman Seth had confessed that he had prior knowledge of the 2007 Nandigram attack, the CID on Sunday started re

Nearly four months after the death of top Maoist leader Kishenji, a laptop and several other electronic gadgets were recovered along with ammunition and explosives by the joint security forces from Kushboni forest in West Midnapore district on Tuesday, leading the police and intelligence officials to suspect that the items belong to the slain rebel commander.

The state and Central security forces will now use rubber bullets and other less lethal weapons against the Maoists to minimise casualties. Ordnance Factory Board (OFB), the PSU of the defence ministry, is providing the “pump action guns” to the security forces for this purpose.

In an effort to win the hearts of industrialists, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee appealed to them to put faith in her government.

“Trust the government, trust the grassroots, trust the pe