West Bengal: 2 boys throw acid on girl, then rape her

An undertrial prisoner allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself inside the Bardhaman District Correctional Home, police said today. The body of Satya Narayan Konar (40), an insurance agent accused of murdering his wife, was found hanging from a water ...

Land is one of the major challenges that would have to be handled strategically before India could tap its resources of shale gas, Chairman and Managing Director of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Sudhir Vasudeva, said. Shale gas, which is natural ...

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Bengal Kolkata, May 14 (UNI) Due to derailment of 12363 Up Kolkata - Haldibari Intercity Express between Nalhati and Chatra stations of Eastern Railway's Howrah Division at about 1250 hours today, several trains have been either cancelled or ...

KOLKATA: The Saradha contagion is spreading quite fast in West Bengal, with over two-dozen money-circulating companies shuttering in the last two weeks even as the number of suicides rises by the day despite chief minister Mamata Banerjee promising ...

In a bid to augment food security, West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra Friday announced the successful completion of digitised zoning and land-use mapping in 129 blocks in the state. "Out of 341 blocks in the state, digitised zoning and land-use ...

Kolkata's major roads will be named after prominent personalities and luminaries. The road renaming committee of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has finalised the names which will be announced by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. While in the north, ...

Sixty-nine-year-old Renubala Ari of Deganga village in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district is counting her last days. But it is not her death that worries her. Blind in both eyes and with painful lesions all over her body ? the effects of ...

Coming down heavily on so-called "chit fund" companies based in Bengal, Bihar deputy Chief Minister, Sushil Modi today said that after Saradha it was now the turn of Rose Valley. "They (Rose Valley) are collecting money in Bihar in the name of hotel ...