Congress, CPI(M) trade unions call for strike in West Bengal on April 30

PTI, Kolkata April 26, 2015:  CITU, INTUC and six Left-backed trade unions today jointly called a 24-hour general strike in West Bengal...

Repoll ordered in 36 booths

TT, Calcutta, April 26:   The state election commission today ordered repolls in 36 of the 8,756 booths where civic polls were held yest...

Not an aftershock but a quake: Professor

G.S.Mudur, TT, New Delhi, April 26:   The earthquake that convulsed Nepal yesterday triggered dozens of aftershocks and a fresh quake to...

Hill youth dies in Nepal tower crash

Dipesh Rai Rajeev Ravidas, TT, Darjeeling, April 26: A Darjeeling graduate who was in the Dharahara tower in Kathmandu yesterday died ...

3 more deaths take toll to 8

Avijit Sinha, TT,  April 26: Three fresh deaths were reported in Darjeeling district taking the toll in north Bengal to eight since the ...

Youth on Everest expedition missing - Jhapa district in Nepal prays for 23-year-old's return

Anis Luitel at the Mt Everest base camp. The picture was uploaded by him on Facebook on April 17 AVIJIT SINHA, TT,  Kakarvitta (Nepal)...

CM fresh look at disaster risk

Mamata Banerjee at Maniram village in Naxalbari   Kinsuk Basu, TT, Siliguri, April 26:  Chief minister Mamata Banerjee is set to draw ...

Google finder for quake missing

A member of the disaster response force checks a satellite phone before being airlifted to Nepal from a camp in Ahmedabad. (AFP) ...

Mamata to head north

A first-floor balcony of a three-storey house in Siliguri town got severed and fell off during the quake on Saturday morning. No one died...

Toll in state 25 & rising, 150 hurt - Districts along Nepal worst hit, eight aftershocks felt in aftermath

Stairs of a Motihari school collapse on impact of the tremor on Saturday.   (PTI) Joy Sengupta , TT, Patna, April 25: At least 25 peo...

Build-up below old lakebed

Thomas Bell in Kathmandu, TT: The earthquake which struck Kathmandu on Saturday had long been anticipated, and feared, by residents. Never...

NO TOWER TOO TALL, NO EVEREST TOO HIGH - Earthquake shakes Nepal close to noon and rumbles across borders

TT,  New York Times News Service, Reuters and AP,  April 25: A deadly earthquake shook Nepal and sent tremors through India today, killing...

Deadly earthquake Nepal – At least 1,911 people killed

Barpak, about 1000 houses and very close to the epicenter – government sources say almost completely destroyed  Armand Vervaeck and Ja...

Aid starts coming to Nepal after quake kills 1,865

Associated Press By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA and MUNEEZA NAQVI:  KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Tens of thousands of Nepalese who spent the night unde...