West Bengal
Selling eggs to fulfil mountain of a dream
Tusi Das, a 25-year-old resident of this city, wants to climb Mount Everest - and so she sells eggs. She has been selling eggs for the last six years to collect enough money to fund
Calcutta airport gets ready for Airbus A380
The Kolkata airport will expand its runway and build a taxiway for the Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial aircraft. ...
LF partners hold CPI (M) responsible for pre-poll terror
Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) and the Forward Bloc (FB) have charged 'Big Brother' Communist Party of India -Marxist (CPI-M) with resorting to large-scale violence...Morcha protesters caught in mob furyin Siliguri
Siliguri wore a tense look for most part of Friday following a mob violence and rampage by supporters of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha. Around 10 people were injured in separate incidents of violence...Jyoti Basu says situation in Darjeeling grim; advises against visiting
The situation in the Darjeeling Hills of West Bengal is grim in view of the ongoing agitation there by the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM), veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu said in Kolkata on Friday....
CPI(M) MLA abuses West Bengal CPI chief
Communist Party of India (CPI) state general secretary and senior party leader Manju Kumar Majumdar was virtually abused and gheraoed by a Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M) MLA from Chakdah...
Fire at printing press in Kolkata
A fire broke out in a printing press at Canal South Road in the eastern part of Kolkata on Friday. Ten fire tenders were on the job to douse the flames, police said. The cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained...Kolkata to get its first ENT hospital
Kolkata is all set to get a hospital fully dedicated to ENT (ear-nose-throat) problems by the end of this month....
Maoists kill RSP worker, 2 cops
Red rage continued unabated in Bengal with Maoists killing three men, including two police constables, on Tuesday and Wednesday....
Kolkata zoo gets rare attractions
Zoo visitors in Kolkata will now get to see white peafowls, open-billed storks and hamadryas baboons at Alipore Zoological Gardens...Nandigram voting booths to be sealed for panchayat poll
poll booths at volatile Nandigram in East Midnapore district of West Bengal will be sealed off during the panchayat elections starting May 11, officials said today....
Sonia slams Left govt over Nandigram
Criticising the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee led-government of West Bengal for its handling of the Nandigram situation, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday said that she was with the people of the area in their sorrow....
Cable theft at Eden ahead of IPL match
It seems that Eden Gardens' bad days are far from over. After a power failure, unsporting pitch and water shortage during a match last week, the hallowed turf has earned negative publicity yet again with the discovery of a cable theft....
Apollo Hospitals to start medical college in West Bengal
The Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals is to set up a medical college with a 350-bed hospital on the outskirts of the West Bengal capital....
BMW opens its first showroom in Kolkata
BMW India has opened its first showroom in the city following increasing demand for its cars and announced plans to launch a dealership providing sales, service, spares and systems to its clients. The 4,300 sq ft showroom was inaugurated on Wednesday....CID nabs accused in WBJEE question paper leak case
The main accused in the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination question paper leak case, Manas Patra was arrested on Wednesday by the West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department from Tikiapara, Howrah....2 killed, 24 injured in a bus-truck collision in Nadia
Two people killed and 24 others injured after a Siliguri bound bus running at a high speed lost control and collided with a heavy truck coming from the opposite direction in Nadia district....Maoists kill CPI (M) leader in Birbhum
Suspected Maoists today gunned down a CPM leader in Birbhum, a Red bastion where the rebels had never struck before....
Chief Minister plays guardian angel to CAB president
As if the blackout on Sunday evening was not enough to blacken the face of Bengal Eden Gardens in Kolkata once again plunged into darkness for almost half an hour on Tuesday evening when the knights of Knight Riders were in the middle of their practice....Residents call for elections boycott in Kalyani
In an unusual political incident, around 4000 residents of Rathtala area of Nadia district, decided to boycott the upcoming West Bengal panchayat poll to be held in May, demanding their immediate inclusion under the Kalyani civic authorities. The three phased panchayat elections in the state to be held in May 11, 14 and 18....Hospital ransacked over patient's death in Kalyani, Nadia
Death of a four year old girl led to a violent situation at Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial (JNM) hospital in Kalyani on Monday....
Sonia to visit West Bengal before local body poll
Congress president Sonia Gandhi will visit West Bengal on April 28 to campaign for her party for the local body polls in May....
Trinamul shutdown brings West Bengal to a halt
Train services in West Bengal were hit and schools and colleges were closed Monday during a daylong strike over rising food prices. With security in mind, Rahul Gandhi, his sister Priyanka and Shah Rukh Khan cancelled their flights....Question paper leak led authorities to cancel WBJEE
West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE) was canceled on Saturday due to the seepage of question papers just before the D-Day. The WBJEE was scheduled on Sunday but the West Bengal Joint Entrance Board was forced to call off the exam as the medical question paper got leaked from Kharagpur area on Friday....Rats nibble away dead infant's eye in Bengal hospital
As the family members of a newborn who had died went to the morgue of a hospital in West Bengal, they were shocked to see one of the eyes and a portion of the face had been eaten away by rats....Fresh clashes in Nandigram, 8 injured
Ahead of the panchayat polls in West Bengal, at least eight supporters of anti-land acquisition forum Bhoomi Uchched Pratirodh Committee (BUPC) were injured in a fresh clash with CPM cadres in Nandigram early on Saturday....
Three killed in BSF firing near Cooch Behar India-Bangladesh border
Three people, including a Bangladeshi national, died when Border Security Force (BSF) personnel opened fire while they were allegedly smuggling cattle through the Indo-Bangladesh border in West Bengal's Dinhata area...West Bengal suspends private Kolkata-Dhaka bus service
Authorities in West Bengal have ordered the suspension of the only private bus service between Kolkata and Dhaka, but the operator is continuing the daily run between the two countries despite the order....
Reduce formalities time for Dhaka-Kolkata train journey
The media in Bangladesh today unanimously emphasised that the time taken for customs and immigration formalities for passengers of the just-begun 'Moitree Express' train service should be drastically reduced....'Not enough Fulbright scholars from eastern India'
Eastern India is under-represented in the largest US international exchange programme - the Fulbright Scholarship, according to the United States Educational Foundation in India (USEFI)....- Chatwal plans mega hotel projects in Punjab
- WBJEE 2008 - West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination 2008
- 500 TCS staffers resign
- One killed, three injured in Howrah fire
- Three of family found dead
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28 February, 2008 12:12:56
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