Kolkata

An elderly lady was trapped inside a washroom and died while a young boy jumped off from the building's roof in fright as the blaze engulfed the upper floors.

Instead of Shah, BJP President JP Nadda will pay a visit to Siliguri two days later to chalk out the party's strategy.

Dhankhar, who often posts his views on Twitter, took to the microblogging site yet again on Tuesday and said Mamata Banerjee government must take note of the widespread "outrage" over the "ill treatment," of the Sikh man.

BJP national general secretary and in-charge of West Bengal, Kailash Vijayvargiya accused the ruling Trinamool Congress of storing and creating explosives to trigger terror ahead of the state Assembly Polls.

The community-based joint survey conducted by the George Institute in collaboration with the Child in Need Institute (CINI) in June-September, 2019 was primarily aimed to determine the drowning mortality rate among children aged 1 to 4 years and 5 to 9 ye...

Vijayvargiya's comments came a day after police booked him along with senior BJP leaders like Mukul Roy, Dilip Ghosh, Arvind Mennon and MPs Arjun Singh and Locket Chatterjee for rioting and violating the Epidemic Diseases Act.

The tunnel boring machine 'Urvi' reached Sealdah completing the Howrah-bound tunnel that is being constructed as part of the 16.6 km-long rapid transport project between Howrah Maidan and Sector V in Salt Lake, the official said.

The Metro will also increase the number of services on Sundays from the present 58 to 64 from 10.10 am to 9.30 pm, the spokesperson said.

Party leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga said the removal of the man's turban by the police was a reminder of the 1984 Sikh violence.

Officials said that the Union Home Ministry convened a tripartite meeting on Wednesday to discuss ”issues related to the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration.

The specially designed tram library will have books and magazines, including those on competitive examinations such as the civil services.

The action comes after a two-year-long preliminary enquiry (PE) into the allegations levelled against him during 2012 and 2013.

The three employees of the guest house in Salt Lake on the eastern fringes of the city were arrested on the charge of discrimination against guests on religious grounds.

Bangladeshi government had given special permission to nine exporters to export 1,450 tonne of hilsa this festive season ahead of the Durga Puja.

Tushar Kanti Bhattacharya had won from Bishnupur seat in the 2016 assembly polls on a Congress ticket and joined TMC in July that year. He had, however, not quit his assembly seat.

The building, which was about 150-year-old, collapsed after a heavy shower, police said. The woman lived with her son and grandson in the building.