Family forces hospital to retain SARS patient

A Kolkata hospital had to retract its decision to discharge a SARS patient after his relatives nixed the move despite clearance from the West Bengal government.Asitava Purakayastha, a textile......

Bengal: 1 killed 'in police firing'; 9 others injured

One person was killed and nine others, including eight policemen, were injured in violence that rocked Tehatta in Nadia district of West Bengal on Wednesday, forcing police to open fire in......

WB govt intensifies anti-Maoist operations in Jungle Mahal

Signalling stepped up operations in junglemahal after withdrawal of the offer of ceasefire by the Maoists and the killing of two Trinamool Congressmen, the West Bengal government has recalled......

WB govt to send Kishenji's body to Andhra Pradesh

The body of slain Maoist leader Kishenji would be sent to his home at Peddapalli in Andhra Pradesh by the West Bengal government after conducting a postmortem in Kolkata. "The body is being sent,"......

Ranji Roundup: Gambhir, Rana hit tons after Ishant picks five

IIMAGE: Gautam Gambhir. Photograph: Tony Marshall/Getty Images New Delhi: Gautam Gambhir started his new season in the right earnest with a patient century as Delhi made a pedestrian Assam attack......