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A Kolkata-based NGO and disability rights activist Suchandra Ganguly took up the issue along with official chaplain of Rio Olympics and Paralympics Zenji Nio. (Photo: Representational Image/ AP)

Paralympics highlights to be telecast in India

India have sent their biggest ever contingent of 19, but no broadcaster showed any interest to buy rights of the...

9 Sept 2016 4:24 PM IST

Five persons were arrested and four of them were from Bihar. (Photo: ANI)

Arms factory busted in West Bengal; 101 firearms, 9 kg explosives...

Police raided the house of Aftab Hussain last night and seized 101 firearms, including two 9 mm pistols.

7 Sept 2016 4:19 PM IST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at Vatican City. (Photo: PTI)

Mamata Banerjee gifts Bible bound in Baluchari silk to Pope Francis

Banerjee led a 12-member official delegation to the Vatican as a guest of the Missionaries.

5 Sept 2016 7:52 AM IST

A scene from inside the Mother Teresa museum at Pushpagiri St Joseph Church, Thellakam.

Kolkata celebrates canonisation of Mother Teresa with songs, candles

People started gathering from early morning at Mother House in Kolkata for a special mass for the 'Saint of the Gutters'

4 Sept 2016 3:18 PM IST

Union Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram said the Centre is eager to accord tribal status to the 11 Gorkha communities and the West Bengal and Sikkim governments had already issued recommendation for these communities. (Photo: PTI/Representational)

Centre will accord tribal status to the Gorkhas: Oram

The West Bengal and Sikkim governments had already issued recommendation for these communities, the tribal affairs...

4 Sept 2016 2:12 PM IST

Worshippers gather around the tomb of Mother Teresa inside the Mother house in Kolkata on Saturday. (Photo: AP )

Nuns to celebrate canonisation of Mother Teresa with poorest of poor

Nuns at the Missionaries of Charity said canonisation in Rome will have special universal significance because of the...

4 Sept 2016 2:47 AM IST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addressing a press conference after Strategy Meeting on land refund of Tatas Nano plant in Singur to the farmers, at Nabanna (State Secretariat) in Kolkata. (Photo: PTI)

West Bengal govt on 'war footing' for Singur land return process

The land had been acquired by the former Left Front government for the Tata Motors project.

3 Sept 2016 4:58 PM IST

Trinamul Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee

Trinamul Congress aims to play bigger role in 2019 Lok Sabha elections

On friday Trinamul Congress was awarded national party status.

3 Sept 2016 7:14 AM IST

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

West Bengal govt wants Singur movement part of school syllabus

Banerjee steered political opposition against the land acquisition process forcing the Tatas to abandon the project in...

2 Sept 2016 9:13 PM IST

Nobel peace prize winner Mother Teresa. (Photo: PTI)

Mother Teresa's mission lives on in Kolkata, grows worldwide

The nuns no longer picked up people randomly off the streets and only took in the destitute at the request of police.

2 Sept 2016 6:58 PM IST

A 50-year-old man raped a three-year-old girl at Jagapatinagaram village in Kirlampudi mandal of East Godavari on Friday night. (Representational image)

Kolkata: Accused cab drivers confess to gangrape and killing of minor

The two accused, who are in their early 20s, have been remanded into police custody till September 9 for the crime.

2 Sept 2016 12:25 PM IST

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

Will follow SC order on Singur line-by-line: Mamata

'Everyone will get back their land. Our intention is to honour the court verdict within the time limit.'

1 Sept 2016 5:55 PM IST