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Army redeployed after fresh violence erupted in Darjeeling hills where Gorkhaland supporters torched a police outpost, a toytrain station and clashed with the police at two places in Darjeeling. (Photo: AP)

Defuse Darjeeling stir before crisis escalates

Supplies of food and other essential items to the hills from the plains have been blockaded by agitators.

10 July 2017 12:16 AM IST

Kolkata Municipal Corporation

Councillors asked to put up Kanyashree posters

Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will put up 25 hoardings about Kanyashree's win in the UN in each of its 144 wards.

9 July 2017 4:31 AM IST

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addresses mediapersons at Nabanna on Tuesday. (Photo: Abhijit Mukherjee)

Mamata Banerjee orders judicial probe into Basirhat riots

Meanwhile, the three MPs, Meenakshi Lekhi, Om Mathur and Satyapal Singh, were stopped from visiting Basirhat.

9 July 2017 4:10 AM IST

Army redeployed after fresh violence erupted in Darjeeling hills where Gorkhaland supporters torched a police outpost, a toytrain station and clashed with the police at two places in Darjeeling. (Photo: AP)

Darjeeling crisis: Army called as violence rises

The ruling Trinamul Congress has accused the BJP of instigating violence in both Darjeeling and Basirhat.

9 July 2017 1:24 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: PTI)

Dilli Ka Babu: Babus finally speak up

Recently, 65 retired babus wrote an open letter addressed to all public authorities and constitutional bodies to take...

9 July 2017 12:28 AM IST

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addresses mediapersons at Nabanna on Tuesday. (Photo: Abhijit Mukherjee)

West Bengal pays price as Didi plays Muslim card

Mobs spread out, burnt down buildings, damaged public property and targeted Hindu houses.

9 July 2017 12:18 AM IST

President Pranab Mukherjee (Photo: PTI)

President exhorts cooperative federalism

He was speaking at a 2-day business summit which is being attended by representatives from over 27 countries and 3,000...

20 Jan 2017 3:59 PM IST

West Bengal BJP leaders meet Shah to chalk out state plan'

State leadership had complained to the central leadership about the denial of permission to hold public meetings and...

20 Jan 2017 5:45 AM IST

British foreign secretary Boris Johnson with CM Mamata Banerjee in the city. (Photo: Abhijit Mukherjee)

CM Mamata hardsells development work, eyes UK partnership

British foreign secretary meets Mamata, to skip business summit.

20 Jan 2017 5:38 AM IST

Police tries to remove a Forward Bloc member protesting against the Bhangar violence outside the Raj Bhavan in the city. (Photo: Asian Age)

Bhangar violence: Mamata declares Rs 2 lakh aid to victims

Villagers again blocked Haroa-Rajarhat Road to deny entry to police and goons.

20 Jan 2017 5:33 AM IST

Students and activists take out a rally in Kolkata on Wednesday to condemn police firing on villagers protesting against land acquisition for a power project in Bhangar, West Bengal. (Photo: Abhijit Mukherjee)

Mamata Banerjee blames outsiders' for Bhangar violence

Mamata however also cautioned the police that the local villagers must not be harmed or harassed.

19 Jan 2017 4:47 AM IST

West Bengal CM and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee. (Photo: File)

Bhangar violence: Banerjee asks police to identify 'outsiders'

According to sources, the CM has asked the police to spot the outsiders and get them arrested.

18 Jan 2017 7:14 PM IST