West Bengal

Amar Subba, Sikkim's Marathon Man, has added another feather to his cap by finishing third in a 24-hour run in Mumbai over the weekend.

Seven Darjeeling tea trade unions cutting across party lines decided on Tuesday to jointly campaign for minimum wages.

A political consensus has emerged on granting land rights to the hill population, especially tea garden workers, but realising the long-cherished dream of land ownership seems easier said than done.

Gaurav Gogoi got a taste of dissension in the Bengal Congress in his first trip here on Monday as the new minder, with many groups demanding the removal of Adhir Chowdhury as state unit president.

All eight block development officers of Jhargram were shunted out on Monday to less important posts in north Bengal amid murmurs that they had paid the price for the ruling Trinamul's poor show in the rural polls.

Differences within Trinamul, particularly among the Youth Trinamul and the parent party, came to the fore in Cooch Behar again on Monday.

The Mamata Banerjee government's plan to introduce mandatory mutation at the time of land deals has been shelved as the authorities have realised that such a system cannot be introduced unless land records in the state are updated.

Muslim villagers in Murshidabad's Samserganj have raised money to rebuild the houses of six Hindu families gutted in a fire, after an appeal for assistance to an Id congregation at a local mosque.

Trinamul tea union leaders have accused the BJP of "double-speak" on tea wages by opposing interim wage hikes in Bengal while pushing it in Assam.

Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) president Mann Ghisingh on Sunday told cadres to start a campaign to secure Sixth Schedule status for the hills.