Acting Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya walked out of a courtroom when a petitioner's lawyers pointed out that the chair he was sitting on had an incorrect representation of the national emblem.

Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen, who is now in Paris, is aggrieved. Two years after she was hounded out of Kolkata, she has not been able to track her furniture and other belongings, though these were taken to Delhi by home ministry officials.

On the occasion of 150 years of its existence, which it completes in January, St Xavier's College wants a gift from chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee seven acres in Rajarhat for its second campus.

It's election time. Vote for your colour red, green, yellow, white (or perhaps purple?) to paint your own flyover. You can also decide whether the space beneath the flyover will sport an art gallery or remain a green belt forever.

Calcutta high court directed the government and cricketer Sourav Ganguly to file affidavits-in-opposition within three weeks on a PIL moved by some residents of Salt Lake, challenging the state's decision to allot land to the former Team India skipper to set up a school on a 62-cottah plot in CA block.

Death of two slum dwellers due to suspected encephalitis in Tangra's Meher Ali Lane within a fortnight has sparked panic in these parts of north-eastern Kolkata.

Calcutta high court on Friday called for details of the steps taken by the government on the removal of joint forces from schools in the Lalgarh area, which have been occupied by jawans since the anti-Maoist operations began earlier this year.

Shops and markets remained closed while vehicles kept off the roads in Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Kurseong sub-divisions as the GJM-sponsored 12-hour bandh started on Friday morning.

One year after classes began, West Bengal State University (WBSU) has still not got its act in order. On Thursday, it released BA, BSc and Bcom results only to land in a controversy.

The Raj era transport now plies only on 12 of the 29 routes. What's more worrying, tram services on many stretches has been suspended even after concretisation was over.

You are not sure when you set out in the morning where a new diversion has come up, which road has been blocked off, or which speedway has been cut into a crawl space. All this, thanks to the never-ending development projects'.

Parliament had passed the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill that emphasis free education for children aged between 6 and 14 years, but what will be the provisions for children below six years of age and those between 14 and 18?

Shutters of shops had been downed and daily labourers waited in groups with fear writ large on their faces as a hundred jawans raided wayside shanties and upcoming constructions along the road on Friday.

A Kolkata-based woman co-pilot of Air India has approached the National Commission for Women, alleging that officials of the national carrier have been harassing her for the last three months "in the name of an enquiry over a trivial issue".

In a shocking incident, a 12-year-old girl committed suicide in Samundai Colony under Old Malda Municipality on Friday, apparently because she was denied money to buy an adhesive she was addicted to.

Senior Trinamool Congress leaders are not too surprised, therefore, if newcomers sometimes feel disillusioned. According to them, it is common for first-time MPs and MLAs to react when they are told that they can no longer take decisions without consulting the party.

Finally, Mamata Banerjee seems to have got herself a personal secretary (PS). Santanu Basu, currently serving as district magistrate, Purulia, is likely to join as the railway minister's PS sometime next month.

For twenty-two-year-old Sushil Sardar, a desperation for money needed for his mother's treatment drove him to plot and execute the murder of 60-year-old widow Manju Ghoshal in Kalighat.

Old habits die hard, and Writers' Buildings staffers are perfect examples of this. If they had argued on Wednesday about the reasons behind reporting late for work, they took recourse to excuses a day after.

State environment minister Sailen Sarkar has asked Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh to highlight the plight of the Sunderbans after it was lashed by Aila at the Copenhagen climate summit to extract a political commitment on adaptation costs from developed countries.