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ED searches multiple places in Bengal over embezzlement of MGNREGA funds

The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday carried out simultaneous raids at multiple places in West Bengal, including residences of some state government officers, in connection with its probe into......

Post-cyclone rains, flood threat affect lakhs in eastern India

A day after Cyclone Yaas tore through coastal Odisha and Bengal to cause havoc as far as Jharkhand, tornadoes, torrential rains, bridge collapses and swelling rivers continued......

Yaas intensifies into very severe cyclonic storm: IMD

Cyclone Yaas intensified into a very severe cyclonic storm on Tuesday evening, India Meteorological Department Director General M Mohapatra said, even as the states of West Bengal, Odisha and......

Rebel Trinamool minister rakes up 'cut money' issue

Disgruntled West Bengal minister Rabindranath Bhattacharya, who has refused to take up his new ministerial assignment, on Tuesday stoked the 'cut money' debate, urging Chief Minister Mamata......

West Bengal: Hooch claims 7 lives, 3 arrested

Seven persons have died after drinking illicit liquor at Payradanga village in Hooghly district, the police said. About 20 villagers drank liquor on Sunday night and fell sick, following which they......

Protests over WB Tata unit disrupt traffic

Road and rail traffic in Kolkata and surrounding areas was thrown out of gear on Tuesday morning following an hour-long blockade by the Trinamool Congress to protest the 'forcible' acquisition of......

Big business in India's small towns

The land registry office is possibly one of the best-known addresses in Singur today. The girl who directed me to it could not have been more than 16-years old and all the rickshaw and paanwallahs......

IIT Kharagpur to expand Kolkata campus

Kolkata will shortly get a much larger extension campus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-KGP).Sishir K Dube, director of IIT-KGP, said, "The government of West Bengal has......

Xenitis laptop at Rs 29,000

Xenitis Infotech Pvt Ltd, the Kolkata-based desktop manufacturers, on Tuesday launched its low-cost laptop range branded 'Xuva' aiming to take on the multi-national brands dominating the Indian......

Xenitis opens PC unit in India

Xenitis Infotech, an IT hardware company, on Friday opened its Rs 250 crore (Rs 2.5 billion) computer component unit, the first of its kind in the country, at Chinsurah in Hoogly district of West......

Bengalis feel we have lost a family member

'He always seemed one of us, part of the great aspiring middle class -- his values, his simplicity, even the intellectual snobbery which he could barely hide,' observes Mousumi Sengupta.......

Titas Sadhu: The net bowler from Hooghly now Asiad champion

IMAGE: Pace bowler Titas Sadhu's figures of 3 for 6 helped India crush Sri Lanka to win the Asian Games gold medal on Monday. Photograph: BCCI/X Titas Sadhu must believe in pleasant coincidences.......

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