West Bengal Bar Council vice-president Siddhartha Mukherjee on Monday wrote to Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman seeking monetary help for some lawyers who have no income as the normal functio...

Calcutta High Court on Tuesday dropped BJP leader Mukul Roy’s name from its proceedings dealing with the murder of Trinamul Congress MLA Satyajit Biswas as the CID no longer considered him as an acc...

A sense of humour is perhaps the greatest loss to a society when people are constantly on the lookout for insults to their religious sentiments. A gentleman named Subhadep Adhikari petitioned the Calc...

The high court on Friday reminded doctors of the Hippocratic oath they had taken for patients’ welfare and hoped the state would consider the grievances of the agitating doctors and persuade them to...

Justice Debangshu Basak of the high court on Thursday directed the registrar of the West Bengal Medical Council to appear before his court personally on July 2 with the documents related to the death ...

Calcutta High Court and its subordinate courts will function in a restricted manner from March 17 because of the coronavirus pandemic, hearing only matters that have already been listed, a notificatio...

Calcutta High Court has directed the Bengal government to file an affidavit in four weeks stating what had been done with the Rs 138 crore that had found no claimants among duped Saradha depositors wh...

The high court on Monday allowed the 32-year-old woman who is 24 weeks pregnant to abort her baby after an SSKM Hospital board gave its approval.Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty issued her the permission...

A 32-year-old woman in her second trimester of pregnancy moved the high court on Thursday, seeking permission to abort the baby as its brain had not matured.The court will take a call based on the opi...

The state government on Friday filed a report in the high court on the status of dengue in Bengal but did not specify the number of deaths or those affected by the disease.The report spoke of the mone...