West Bengal

The Gorkhaland Territorial Administration chief said on Wednesday that he was working on a "vision 2020 plan" and the Darjeeling hills had been pushed back by 32 years in terms of development.

The CID has arrested a man for allegedly offering fake appointment letters to some candidates for jobs in Military Engineer Services (MES) against hefty payments.

The Mamata Banerjee government will be forced to appoint administrators to run a large number of gram panchayats as five year tenure of the rural bodies would start expiring from Thursday.

A contract labourer from here was found dead in Dubai earlier this week.

A 45-year-old jeweller was killed allegedly by a gang of robbers who entered his house at Bipratikuri village in Birbhum's Labhpur on Tuesday night.

Police arrested two suspected Bihar-based Maoists near here on Tuesday evening while they were on their way to Purulia district.

A free health centre for the poor that Somnath Chatterjee had set up here and named after mentor Jyoti Basu closed down on Tuesday for the "time being", uncertain about its monthly funding of Rs 80,000 that came from the former Lok Sabha Speaker.

Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday announced the removal of the family income cap from her pet scheme Kanyashree.

A 67-year-old woman suffering from stomach-related ailments has died at a Purulia village allegedly after she did not have food for three days, said her son.

Over two dozen milkmen were beaten up at Santipur station in Nadia on Tuesday by residents who accused them of adulterating milk with chemicals.