Agartala | 41 minutes ago
Another ISI agent held in Tripura
Agartala, Sep 3 - An agent of Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence - has been arrested by the Border Security Force - along the India-Bangladesh border in west Tripura, police said here Friday.BSF troopers detained ISI agent Nayeem Ahmed Mamoon, 22, from Lankamura border on the outskirts of Agartala Thursday night while he was crossing the border towards Bangladesh, a police spokesman ... read more

Kolkata | 2 hours ago
13 years on, Mother Teresa still draws foreign tourists to Kolkata
Kolkata, Sep 3 - Be it soccer legend Diego Maradona, tennis star Martina Hingis or football World Cup hero Diego Forlan - they have all visited the plain two-storey Missionaries of Charity headquarters here that houses Mother Teresa's grave. It's a must-see for foreign tourists visiting eastern India even 13 years after her death.Sep 5, 1997, was the day she died. The selfless nun who migrated fro ... read more

Kolkata | 16 hours ago
CPI-M has camps in West Midnapore for party supporters: Bose
Kolkata, Sep 2 - In the wake of union Home Minister P. Chidambaram's comments on the existence of camps of armed cadres in West Bengal's West Midnapore district, the Communist Party of India-Marxist - Thursday claimed they were set up to house those evicted by the Maoists from their homes.'Our party is working in Junglemahal -. But that does not mean we have set up armed camps there. The camps wer ... read more

Kolkata | 19 hours ago
Apollo may set up more hospitals in West Bengal
Kolkata, Sep 2 - Healthcare major Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd is in talks with Parkway Holdings of Singapore to set up more hospitals in West Bengal via their existing joint venture, a top official said here Thursday.'Our agreement is for West Bengal only and we are looking at setting up more hospitals,' Apollo Hospitals managing director Preetha Reddy said on the sidelines of an event at the ... read more

Kolkata | 23 hours ago
Suspected Maoists kill two in West Bengal
Kolkata, Sep 2 - Suspected Maoists Thursday shot dead two people in West Bengal's West Midnapore district, police said.'Two bodies were found at Ektal village near Aguiboni area of Jhargram sub-division in the district this morning -. The victims were shot dead by the ultra-Left rebels and Maoist posters were recovered from the spot,' Jhargram police chief Praveen Tripathi said. The victims are ye ... read more

Kolkata | 1 day ago
Mamata hits back at Buddhadeb
Kolkata, Sept 1 - A day after West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee accused Mamata Banerjee of telling 'blatant lies', the Trinamool Congress chief Wednesday hit back, saying she would never use such language as she believed in courteous behaviour.'Each leader of the Left Front is a ratna -, I know their language. I am not as educated as them but I know courtesy,' said Banerjee. Baner ... read more

New Delhi | 1 day ago
Armed camps exist in West Bengal: Chidambaram
New Delhi, Sep 1 - Home Minister P. Chidambaram Wednesday said some armed camps do exist in West Bengal and it was for the state government to look into the matter.'I think generally it is agreed that there are some camps in some parts of West Bengal and there are cadres in these camps who carry arms,' Chidambaram told reporters. He was asked about the Trinamool Congress' allegations of Marxist ca ... read more

New Delhi | 1 day ago
Six lawmakers join National Shipping Board
New Delhi, Sep 1 - The government Wednesday appointed six lawmakers as members of the national Shipping Board, a permanent statutory body set up to advise the government on issues relating to shipping sector and its development.The six members appointed to the board - for a period of two years each - included four from the Lok sabha and two from the Rajya Sabha, said an official statement from the ... read more

Kolkata | 1 day ago
Tata chemicals to build second Swach unit this fiscal
Kolkata, Sep 1 - Tata Chemicals is planning to build its second water purifier-making plant this fiscal and aims to boost its purifier sales to 80,000 units a month by March next year.The company, which manufactures water purifiers under the brand name 'Swach', now has a one-million unit capacity water purifier-making plant at West Bengal's Haldia in East Midnapore district. 'Shortly, we will be r ... read more

Kolkata | 1 day ago
Three Maoists arrested in police officer's killing
Kolkata, Sep 1 - Police in West Bengal arrested three suspected Maoist cadres from Bankura district in connection with the killing of a police officer, police said Wednesday.Bankura Police Superintendent Pranev Kumar said: 'The arrested have been identified as Laksmikanta Borat, Thakurdas Duley and Ananda Tudu. The three are Maoist squad members and active in the Sarenga and Ranibandh police stati ... read more