Gurung rejects merger

TT, Calcutta, Aug. 17:  Gorkha Janmukti Morcha president Bimal Gurung today said his party was against the merger of the Darjeeling hills ...

Irom Sharmila weds Coutinho

Desmond Coutinho and Irom Sharmila after their wedding in Kodaikanal on Thursday. (PTI) Khelen Thokchom and agencies, TT,  Imphal/Koda...

Rs 10 lakh for raped woman's misery

TT, New Delhi, Aug. 17: The Supreme Court today awarded Rs 10 lakh in compensation to an HIV-afflicted and raped girl from Bihar who cou...

Raped child gives birth

Arnab Ganguly, TT, Chandigarh, Aug. 17:  A 10-year-old rape victim, whose plea for abortion had been declined by successive courts inclu...

BJP icing on Mamata cake

Devadeep Purohit, TT,  Calcutta, Aug. 17:   Bolly heart-throb Armaan Malik sang, actress Nusrat Jahan danced and Mamata Banerjee was at ...

Terror van kills at will in Spain - At least 12 die in Barcelona tourist zone attack

Panic-stricken children, some in tears, are escorted down a road in Barcelona on Thursday. (AP) New York Times News Service and Reuter...

Kolkata court discharges GJM chief Bimal Gurung in Madan Tamang murder case

PTI, Aug, 17 2017, Kolkata: A city court on Thursday discharged Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) supremo Bimal Gurung in the Madan Tamang murd...

West Bengal civic polls: TMC wins all seven civic bodies, makes clean sweep in three

SANTANU CHOWDHURY | IE | Kolkata | August 17, 2017: The Trinamool Congress on Thursday won all seven civic bodies which went to polls last...

Gautam Deb slams Bimal Gurung's statement made on I-Day

Prashant Acharya, EOI, SILIGURI, 16 Aug 2017:  Tourism Minister Gautam Deb slammed the statement made by GJM chief Bimal Gurung to carry...

North Bengal witnesses an independence day with a difference

Tom Adikari hoists the nationaĺ tricolor. Amitava Banerjee, MP, August 16, 2017, Darjeeling, August 15, 2017: Independence day commemo...

Blow to Giri, as SC refuses to transfer trial from Kolkata

M P |  17 Aug 2017| New Delhi: In a big blow to Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) general secretary Roshan Giri, the Supreme Court on Wednesday...

Flight fares soar as floods halt trains

TT, Aug. 16:   Flight fares from Bagdogra have risen by two times or more over the past few days as train movement from north Bengal and...

Shillong girl found dead- Flight attendant's fatal fall from flat - Tragedy strikes through window without grille

TT, Aug. 16: A 23-year-old flight attendant with IndiGo mysteriously fell to her death from the third floor of the apartment building near...