The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) would soon be implementing stringent norms for night parking on major city roads.
 
"Owners of public and private vehicles are taking undue liberty during night and they are parking their vehicles much beyond the areas earmarked for night ...

Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Sunday that Railway Ministry will take the necessary initiatives for upgrading the South Eastern Railway (SER) Hospital to the status of a medical college, with all the facilities.
 
"The SER Hospital will be developed with all modern ...

According to sources, eight rare Brazilian monkeys have been missing in a mysterious fashion from Alipore Zoological Garden of Kolkata.
 
"Altogether eight Brazilian monkeys of rare species were found stolen this (Sunday) morning from their enclosure," Alipore zoo director Subir ...

The senior CPI leader and the West Bengal Sports and Transport Minister Subhas Chakraborty passed away in hospital in Kolkata on Monday, party officials said. He was 68.
 
The death was announced by Biman Bose, chairman of West Bengal's ruling Left Front, in which the CPI-m is the major ...

Commercial vehicle operators will go on an indefinite strike in the city from Friday, after a meeting between the strikers and the West Bengal government failed to break a deadlock over the decision to ban all commercial vehicles that are over 15 years old.
 
With the government expressing ...

At least 17 associations of commercial vehicle operators on Sunday called for an indefinite strike from July 24 to protest the state government's decision to ban all commercial vehicles that are over 15 years old.
 
"We've called this strike as the state government has paid no heed to ...

Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee said Saturday the much-awaited Kolkata Metro extension project linking Tollygunge and Garia will be operational from next month.

"The Metro extension project between Tollygunge and Garia is near completion and would be hopefully inaugurated Aug 23. The ...

The government of West Bengal on Tuesday included potato under the essential commodities category to prevent its hoarding and arrest its rising prices, state Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta said.
 
The government issued a notification under the West Bengal Prevention of Hoarding of Essential ...

A special court in Kolkata sentenced life imprisonment to Dubai-based mafia don Aftab Ansari along with four others for kidnapping shoe baron Partha Roy Burman in 2001. It is worth mentioning that Aftab Ansari has already been given the death sentence in American Center terror attack case. ...

The government of West Bengal on Wednesday (February 18) signed an agreement with non-banking finance company SREI Infrastructure Finance Limited to set up India's first elevated light rail transit system in Kolkata. The light rail transport system project is expected to cost about Rs 60 billion. ...

The key accused in Rizwan Rahman suicide case, industrialist Ashok Todi and his brother Pradip Todi got bail. After granting the bail, the Supreme Court of India ordered the Todi brothers to submit their passports and asked them not to move out of Kolkata without prior permission of the Central ...

The Calcutta High Court has rejected the bail application of industrialist Ashok Todi who was accused of playing a major role in graphics designer Rizwanur Rehman's suicide last year. Rejecting the bail plea of the industrialist, justice B.P. Sengupta of Calcutta high Court stated that the charges ...

The state of West Bengal has got its first trauma care unit from a private hospital called Ruby General Hospital. The newly inaugurated trauma unit will help to deal with rapidly increasing road traffic accidents in Kolkata. Talking to media after the inauguration, chairman and managing director of ...

Industrialist Ashok Todi has been sent to jail till December 12 following his involvement in Rizwanur Rahman’s mysterious death last year. The Kolkata court's magistrate, Madhumita Roy has turned down all of Todi's plea and ordered him to stay in police custody for 12 days. ...

A new financial research and trading laboratory was launched by the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) on November 18, 2008. This is the first laboratory of its kind in India. The Rs 1-crore financial research and trading lab will focus on helping the students to test financial models ...

After so many controversies in last twenty-eight months, Tata Motors has finally decided to shut down its Nano-plant in Singur, West Bengal. This decision was taken by the chairman of Tata Motors, Ratan Tata on October 3, 2008. The company has already invested around Rs 1,500 crore for its ...

Top cops allegedly involved in Rizwanur murder case including IPS officer Ajoy Kumar, ACP Sukanti Chakraborty and SI Krishnendu Das have been arrested. All the three have been sent to jail for a fortnight on Tuesday. Interestingly, all three officers could be suspended if they stay in custody for ...

The Singur protest is forcing all the major companies to rethink over the issue of making investment plan in West Bengal. After the Tatas it is the turn of Infosys Technologies, one of the leading software services exporters in India, to retreat from making investment in Bengal.
 
According ...

After an agreement with West Bengal (WB) CM Bhattacharjee, Mamata Banerjee called up agitation at Singur. Under the compromise formula 400 acres of land where 300 are in the Tata Nano project area and 100 acres in adjacent area will be given to farmers who have not agreed to surrender their land. ...

Rizwanur's mother Kishwar Jahan has filed an appeal in Calcutta HC, seeking criminal proceedings against ex-Police Commissioner Prasun Mukherjee and ex-Deputy Commissioner Gyanwant Singh. Evidently, Justice Dipankar Datta on August 14 had with a reprimand set free Mukherjee and Singh. The court, ...

Calcutta High Court on Thursday, August 14, gave its verdict in the Rizwanur Rehman case. The court said that Rizwanur Rehman was provoked to commit suicide.
 
In his judgment, Justice Dipankar Dutta said: “Rehman was provoked to commit suicide by his in-laws, Ashok and Pradip Todi, ...

The Kolkata High Court will announce it judgment on the case of Rizwanur Rahman who according to some reports was forced to commit suicide or was murdered. Rahman was a 30 year old graphic designer and his only crime was he loved a daughter of a rich person.
 
The murder case had came ...

Traveling within the congested Kolkata just got a little easier as ORIX Auto Infrastructure Services Ltd. (OAIS) has introduced an air-conditioned radio taxi service in the West Bengal capital. OAIS happens to be an Indo-Japanese joint venture infrastructure company.  
 
Launched on ...

Fire broke out on the first floor of the West Bengal government secretariat – the Writers’ Building at Kolkata – in the early hours of Thursday, August 7, 2008. It took nearly two hours to douse the fire and in the meantime a number of key files and documents stored there got ...

The Mehta building, a landmark in the burrabazar market caught fire on Tuesday, June 3, 2008. For few hours it seemed like the Nandaram January 100 hour disaster. The five storey building did not have a single fire extinguisher. It is believed that the fire was fuelled by spirit stored illegally in ...