Police commissioner denies lathi charge on JU students

Refuting allegations of brutal lathi charge on Jadavpur university students, Kolkata police commissioner Surajit Kar Purakayastha on Thursday said the situation could have turned worse had the......

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......

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......