KOLKATA: Friendship between a man and a woman in today's society could not be construed as an illicit relationship, Calcutta high court said while granting divorce to a man whose wife filed seven ...

The Calcutta High Court (HC) today, Friday, February 7, admitted the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) appeal seeking capital punishment for Sanjay Roy, the convict in the RG Kar Medical College ...

The Calcutta High Court Friday admitted CBI’s appeal challenging the life imprisonment sentence awarded to Sanjoy Roy for the rape and murder of a junior doctor at Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical College ...

On this day, the newspaper Calcutta Gazette announced that the governor-general and the Supreme Council of Bengal had expressed their disapproval of some matter published on September 30, 1784.

Amul is set to establish the world's largest curd manufacturing facility near Kolkata, West Bengal, announced at the Bengal Global Business Summit. The plant will produce 10 lakh kg of curd daily ...

The state government had argued before the high court that apart from the central agency, it too can move an appeal claiming inadequacy of sentence given by the trial court.

The Calcutta High Court on Friday dismissed the appeal filed by West Bengal government seeking death penalty for Sanjay Roy, the accused convicted by a trial court in the RG Kar rape and murder case.

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The BJP’s move to “placate” one of its most experienced leaders, Mohan Singh Bisht, and field him from the Muslim-dominated seat of Mustafabad paid off on Saturday. Bisht, who was the sitting Karawal ...

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