Mamata starts dharna at CBI's Kolkata office

Kolkata (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has started a sit-in in CBI's Kolkata office to protest the arrest of four of her Trinamool Congress leaders, provoking an unusual Centre-state confrontation of sorts.

Banerjee rushed…

Narada case: CBI arrests TMC's Firhad, Subrata, Madan, Sovon

Kolkata (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested two Trinamool Congress ministers -- Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee, apart from former Trinamool Minister and present MLA Madan Mitra and former Kolkata Corporation Mayor Sovon Chattopadhyay…

Cyclone Tauktae: Ahmedabad airport shut for 9 hours

Gandhinagar (IANS) With Cyclone Tauktae likely to hit Gujarat in about an hour, the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad shut all its operations for nine hours from 7.30 p.m. on Monday to 5 a.m. Tuesday.

Cyclone Tauktae,…

O2 concentrator case: Navneet Kalra sent to 3 days police custody

New Delhi (IANS) A Delhi court on Monday sent businessman Navneet Kalra, who was arrested late on Sunday night, to three days' police custody in connection with oxygen concentrator hoarding case.

Metropolitan Magistrate Archana Beniwal…

Allegations fly thick and fast as political drama deepens in Bengal

Kolkata (IANS) Amid allegations and counter allegations being levelled against each other by the leaders of both the ruling Trinamool Congress and opposition BJP inn West Bengal, Trinamool Youth Congress President Abhishek Banerjee on Monday asked…

Cyclonic Tauktae very likely to intensify in next 24 hrs

New Delhi (IANS) The Severe Cyclonic Storm "Tauktae" (pronounced as Tau'Te) over east central Arabian Sea is likely to intensify further in the next 24 hours.

The cyclone is very likely to move north-northwestwards and reach Gujarat coast…

Dhankhar-TMC confrontation peaks in Bengal

Kolkata (IANS) West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar has warned the state's newly-elected Trinamool Congress government to "not force me to use my constitutional powers", sparking a fresh artillery exchange with the ruling party.

"He forgot…

Madras HC's intervention sought to prohibit NSE co-location services

Chennai (IANS) The National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) should be prohibited from providing the co-location facility that has already been considered as discriminatory by various authorities, including the Securities and Exchange Board of India…

Arrest me too, Rahul tweets poster criticising Modi

New Delhi (IANS) Amid reports of people being arrested for putting posters against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national capital, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has dared the government to arrest him.

Tweeting the poster on Sunday, Rahul…

Tauktae: 15 fishermen who went to sea from Kozhikode missing

Thiruvananthapuram (IANS) At least 15 fishermen who ventured into the sea on May 5 from Beypore port in Kozhikode are missing. All of them are natives of Tamil Nadu.

The boat "Ajmeer Sha" which sailed from the shores of Beypore on May 5 is…