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The body of Goutam Ghosh is still officially untraced though a Sherpa had claimed that she had spotted Mr Ghoshs body at an altitude of around 8,000m, an officer said. (Representational image)

1 more body retrieved on Mount Everest

The body of Subhas Paul is likely to reach Kolkata on Tuesday.

30 May 2016 1:30 AM IST

West Bengals BJP chief Dilip Ghosh (Photo: PTI)

'Can break your shoulders with bare hands', WB BJP chief allegedly...

TMC hit back at BJP and said it could not handle its defeat in the recently concluded Assembly polls.

29 May 2016 4:11 PM IST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. (Photo: PTI/File)

TMC scouting for options to register protest against EC

The Mamata-led party has slammed the EC for allegedly playing into the hands of opposition parties.

29 May 2016 12:44 PM IST

Poll violence in West Bengal took its toll on 2 CPI (M) workers. (Photo: Video grab)

CPI(M), Congress criticise induction of 'tainted' MLAs

They criticised the governement for inducting some alleged 'Narada-sting tainted' MLAs as ministers in the cabinet.

29 May 2016 9:58 AM IST

Preparations underway for the swearing-in ceremony of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata. (Photo: PTI)

Political bigwigs among 30,000 at Mamata Banerjee's swearing-in today

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sent a 20 kg hilsa fish as her gift to Banerjee on this occasion.

27 May 2016 10:20 AM IST

He reached the top on May 21 and returned to the base camp two days later, the statement said. (Representational image)

39-year-old Bengal police staffer scales Mt. Everest

Rudra Prasad Haldar (39) reached the summit last Saturday at around 5.24 AM.

27 May 2016 9:31 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Narendra Modi is second most-liked world leader on Facebook

Modi's colleagues are also not far behind in making their presence felt in the virtual world.

27 May 2016 1:33 AM IST

Mamata Banerjee (Photo: PTI)

Mamata Banerjee to take oath as WB CM tomorrow along with 41 others

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, Bhutan PM Tshering Tobgay and others will attend the ceremony.

26 May 2016 8:28 PM IST

Narendra Modi (Photo: AP)

Narendra Modi the second most-liked world leader on Facebook

The list of most-liked world leaders on Facebook released by the social network shows that Modi is second only to US...

26 May 2016 7:17 PM IST

Mamata Banerjee (Photo: PTI)

West Bengal BJP to boycott Mamata's swearing-in, Jaitley to attend

The state Congress leadership had earlier stated they would not attend the oath-taking ceremony.

26 May 2016 5:32 PM IST

Trinamool Congress supporterw celebrate the partys thumping victory in West Bengal Assembly eections in front of Chief Minister house in Kolkata. (Photo: PTI)

Net worth of richest Bengal MLA is Rs 40 crore, poorest has Rs 50,000

Trinamool Congress' MLA from Taldangra is the richest among all 294 members of the House.

26 May 2016 1:38 PM IST

Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi after a meeting with Communist Party Secretary of Shanghai Han Zheng (unseen) in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Cong MLAs in WB 'swear allegiance' to Rahul, Sonia Gandhi in...

Bengal Congress president Chowdhury defended the decision to make MLAs sign the undertaking, claiming it was voluntary'.

25 May 2016 12:14 PM IST