Kolkata, July 9 : Veteran CPI (M) leader and former Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu received “an unexpected gift” from his party on his 95th birthday yesterday—withdrawal of support to the UPA gov

Kolkata, July 7: Angioplasty was conducted on Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi today to clear two heart blockages at Apollo Gleneagles Hospital here.

Kolkata, July 6: Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) General Secretary Prakash Karat has warned the UPA Government that it runs the risk of sacrificing India's independent foreign policy, i

Kolkata, July 6 : A slight intensity earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Open-ended Richter Scale struck West Bengal late on Saturday night.

Kolkata, July 5 : As many as 53 out of 294 Assembly constituencies in West Bengal have a high concentration of voters who happen to be illegal migrants from Bangladesh. Similarly, the fate of forty Assembly seats in Assom depends on the votes cast by Bangladeshi infiltrators. All this has been revealed by a recent report of the union home ministry on infiltration from India’s neighbour. The report has been prepared on the basis of facts and figures provided by the Task Force on Border Management and Assom’s former governor S. K. Sinha. 

According to the report, at present there are 80 lakh Bangladeshi infiltrators in Bengal, 55 lakh in Assom, 4 lakh in Tripura and 5 lakh in Bihar(Katihar, Purnia and Kishenganj districts) and Jharkhand(Sahebganj district).