Trade union strike shuts down West Bengal

Kolkata : Life came to a grinding halt in eastern state West Bengal as a 24-hour general strike called by nine trade unions, including the Left-affiliated CITU, took hold across the communist-ruled state on Tuesday.

The roads were deserted and train servic

UBI to set up banking in 4000 villages by 2012

Kolkata : State-owned financial services company United Bank of India on Sunday announced plans of entering 4,341 villages, currently without banking services, by March 2012.

Bhaskar Sen, Chairman of UBI, said that branches will be opened in 45 villages and

CPI-M will be uprooted from Bengal: Rahul Gandhi

Kolkata : Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Monday heavily criticized the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) led Left Front government in West Bengal and said that Communism will end in the state just like it has happened in other countries.

Rahul Gandhi to address maiden Kolkata rally

Congress poster boy Rahul Gandhi would address his maiden public rally in Kolkata on Monday.

Huge cut outs of the Congress adorn the city as the party workers gear up to welcome the leader.

The mood is upbeat among the Congress youth workers over the v

Accident kills Kolkata girl Amrita Roy at airport

Hyderabad, Sept 6 : A Kolkata-based Air Asia employee, died of shock at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) after her right hand got trapped in an aerobridge on Sunday morning, aviation officials investigating the accident said.

Twenty-four-year-

PCPA leader arrested in West Bengal’s Lalgarh

Lalgarh, West Bengal, Sept 4 : A top leader of Maoist-backed People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) was arrested in West Bengal’s Lalgarh under West Midnapore district, reports said on Saturday.

Manoj Mahato, who is the secretary of PCPA, me

Three arrested in attack on media in Lalgarh area of West Bengal

Three members of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) were arrested from Lalgarh area of West Bengal on Saturday in connection with an attack on mediapersons the day before, police said.

The three- arrested from Buripal village in West Midnap

Future Group joins Tata Teleservices , enters telecom

Indian retail behemoth Future Group in alliance with Tata Teleservices on Friday stepped into mobile telephony market with the launch of its Talk 24 (T24) brand in West Bengal.

Test marketed in Hyderabad over the past 3 months, the GSM brand aimed specifica

Madhya Pradesh woos Bengal investors

The Madhya Pradesh government, eyeing rapid industrial growth to the tune of around Rs 3.4 lakh crores in the next few years, on Monday invited investors from West Bengal to attend a Global Investors Meet in Khajuraho next month.

The Oct 22-23 summit is exp

New Delhi-Howrah Rajdhani engine derails, sabotage suspected

Passengers aboard the New Delhi-Howrah Rajdhani Express had a narrow escape Monday when two front wheels of the train’s engine derailed in West Bengal’s Hooghly district. An Eastern Railway spokesperson said sabotage could not be ruled out.

No casualties we

North Bengal low-lying areas flooded

Several low-lying areas of north Bengal in Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling districts of West Bengal were submerged Friday following heavy rainfall, which affected 5,000 people and led to a rise in the water level of the Teesta river.

Following this, the administr

Two pro-Maoist activists held in Gyaneshwari case

Two pro-Maoist activists were arrested from West Bengal’s West Midnapore district Thursday in connection with the May 28 Gyaneshwari Express tragedy, in which 148 passengers were killed, police said.

“Dayamoy Mahato and Ram Mudi were arrested from Indirabon

West Bengal promises Infosys maximum built-up space

Keen to rope in IT major Infosys into the state, West Bengal Wednesday promised to give the company the maximum built-up space under the law in its proposed campus at Rajarhat in the city’s northeastern outskirts.

“Infosys chairman (N.R. Narayana Murthy) ha

Swami Agnivesh proposes 72-hour ceasefire with Maoists

Welcoming the Maoist offer for a three-month ceasefire to begin talks, social activist Swami Agnivesh Wednesday proposed an initial three-day truce between the government and the guerrillas as a confidence building measure.

“It’s a forthright decision by Co

11 West Bengal districts identified as drought-hit

The West Bengal government Monday identified 11 districts of the state as drought hit.

Announcing the decision after a high-level meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee at the state secretariat Writers’ Buildings here, Finance Minister A

Rajya Sabha adjourned over Mamata Banerjee’s rally

The Rajya Sabha was adjourned till 12 noon Tuesday following heated words between the opposition and the treasury benches over the Bharatiya Janata Party’s demands for suspending question hour for a discussion on Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee’s rally at Lal

Lalgarh turned into war zone for Mamata’s rally

Bunkers on rooftops, watch towers, land mine vehicles — this Maoist-hit area looked like a virtual war zone Monday as security agencies left no stone unturned to maintain peace during Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee’s much-public

Uproar in Lok Sabha over Mamata’s Lalgarh rally

The Left parties in the Lok Sabha Monday asked the central government to clarify its stand on the Maoists after a “responsible party in the government and their ministers” decided to hold a rally in West Bengal’s Maoist-affected Lalgarh.

The Trinamool Congr

CBI arrests two absconding accused in Jnaneshwari Train case

The Central Bureau of Investigation along with Jhargram police has arrested two absconding accused i.e. Altaf Hossain Saiyed R/o Modabandh, Jhargram (West Bengal) and Tapan Mahato R/o Akhrasole, Jhargram (West Bengal) today against whom rewards were announced

Pro-Maoist group’s shutdown paralyses life in West Bengal areas

Normal life was paralysed in Maoist-affected areas of three West Bengal districts Tuesday following a 48-hour shut down call by the pro-Maoist Peoples’ Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA) and its militant wing to mourn the recent killing of their supre