In a strategic move for the upcoming West Bengal elections, the BJP has announced its first candidate list, highlighted by Suvendu Adhikari challenging Mamata Banerjee in both Nandigram and Bhabanipur.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday accepted Aroop Biswas's resignation as the sports minister in the wake of the controversy over the mismanagement of football icon Lionel Messi's event last week, a senior leader of the ruling Trinamool Congress said.
The Calcutta high court on Thursday granted bail to a director of the AMRI Hospital, where over 90 people had been killed in December last year, after a fire broke out in its basement. A division bench comprising Justices Asim Kumar Roy and Ashim Kumar Ray granted bail to AMRI Director S K Todi, who has been in custody since December 9.
Directors of AMRI Hospital Manish Goenka and Ravi Todi were on Monday granted bail by the Calcutta high court in connection with the December 9 hospital fire that killed 90 people, mostly patients. Goenka and Todi, who were in custody for 116 days, were granted bail by a division bench comprising justices Ashim Kumar Roy and Asim Kumar Ray.
Former Communist Party of India-Marxist MP Lakshman Seth, arrested for alleged involvement in the disappearance of six persons in Nandigram in 2007, was on Friday granted bail by the Calcutta high court after remaining in custody for 118 days.
Film stars and technicians were awarded at the IIFA awards over the weekend, and here are the big winners.
As Soumitra Chatterjee turns 80 on January 19, we look back at his best movies.
The hits and misses of the week.
Varun Dhawan's winning streak at the box office continues.
The hits and misses of the week.
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Buried in a Kolkata cemetery is an Englishman who served India well during her struggle for freedom. Charles Freer Andrews was a benevolent force that neither the Indians, nor the British could ignore.
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