Ex-principal held on graft charge

Tucked away in coastal West Bengal, the riverine port of Haldia lies on the confluence of rivers Haldi and Hooghly. Strong winds blow ceaselessly from the Bay of Bengal. On one windy day, as I walked across a field balancing my little daughter in ...

The manager and three others of Tower Group, a chit fund company, were arrested on Friday at Arambag in Hooghly district. Police said the manager of Tower Group, Somsubhra Chatterjee, and three other staff members of a branch office at Arambag were ...

May 13: Calcutta High Court today directed the CID probing the death of a Hooghly trader allegedly in police custody to transfer the case to the CBI.

The owner of a rural chit fund firm, active in two south Bengal districts, died on Thursday in Hooghly district taking the ponzi scheme fiasco deaths in the state to 14. The police said that Asim Bera, managing director of AMCO firm, was found lying unconscious on the side of his garage on Thursday morning. Bera, 56 was declared dead at ChuchuraImambaraHospital and suspected to have consumed poison early on Thursday, the police said.  Quoting family members, police said, Bera was facing ...

With the Calcutta High Court ordering a CBI investigation into the custodial death in Hooghly district, the Congress today slammed the ineffectual governance in West Bengal and demanded a CBI inquiry into the chit fund scam.

Three persons, including the step-mother, have been arrested in West Bengal's Hooghly district after they set on fire a minor girl who refused to be forcibly married, police said Friday.Class IX student Roshanara Khatoon was set on fire Thursday morning by ...

The state land use board under the land and land reforms department has completed digitization of zoning land in Hooghly, Howrah, South 24 Parganas, Nadia, East Midnapore and Murshidabad districts.

Two days after explosives in a bag went off at a Rishra home, a police team from Hooghly set out for Gaya on Tuesday along with prime accused Jitendra Singh .

The bodies of four persons who went missing after a boat ferrying them capsized in the Hooghly on Wednesday morning have been fished out following a search by the National Disaster Response Force.