The Telegraph (News from Bengal..)

Calcutta, Feb. 18: The comrades of a beleaguered party are banking on a new Brand Buddha ' launched during the CPM's state committee meeting yesterday ' to energise the party in Bengal.

Haldia, Feb. 17: The Trinamul Congress-controlled Haldia Development Authorities (HDA) today issued show-cause notices to 25 companies that are yet to set up industries on land given to them in 2003.

Feb. 4: Four members of a Murshidabad family on their way to Howrah station, their driver and a man sleeping on a pavement were killed when a truck hit their SUV and pushed it onto a footpath in Calcutta before toppling over it.

Krishnagar, Feb. 4: A man who had posed as his elder brother to court arrest in a rape case, spent three months in jail custody and appeared several times in court for three years after bail was today recognised in court by the victim's father, who called the bluff.

Feb. 4: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee today again voiced her opposition to bandhs and strikes.

Feb. 4: A 39-year-old Calcutta police constable posted at power minister Manish Gupta's residence allegedly shot and injured his own mother and younger brother before turning his service revolver on himself at his Hooghly home this morning.

Ghatakpukur, (South 24-Parganas), Feb. 4: Former land and land reforms minister Abdur Rezzak Mollah today challenged chief minister Mamata Banerjee to prove that the farmers who committed suicide were not genuine cultivators.

Jan. 16: The caretaker of the Santiniketan house whose owner was found dead on Saturday was arrested today on the charge of murdering the 78-year-old widow, probably to grab the building and the adjoining vacant plot.

Calcutta, Jan. 16: The Mamata Banerjee government has planned to involve business chambers CII and Ficci in the promotion of tourism and the manufacturing industry.

Diamond Harbour, Jan. 16: Hooch kingpin Khonra Badsa, illicit liquor from whose den had killed 172 people in Diamond Harbour in December, surrendered in the additional chief judicial magistrate's court today.

Jan. 11: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today appealed to India to be "more generous and considerate to smaller neighbours", saying this would boost friendship between the two countries.

Calcutta, Jan. 11: PandH Joy Mining Equipment India, a fully owned subsidiary of the US-based Joy Global Inc, will set up a unit at the airport city project site in Durgapur.

Calcutta, Jan. 10: Bengal Aerotropolis will invite airlines to check out the facilities at the Andal airport city which it expects to make operational by the end of this year.

Nabadwip/ Purbasthali, Jan. 10: A Trinamul Congress block president of Burdwan was shot dead last night allegedly by an SFI member in front of a Nadia hospital where he had gone to visit two students injured in a college clash.

Calcutta, Jan. 10: The Bengal government will "expose" non-performer panchayats and the parties that run them and consider the option of blocking funds to the laggards.

Calcutta, Jan. 10: Industries minister Partha Chatterjee today held a series of meetings at the Bengal Leads venue to scout for fresh investments and meet administrative requirements.

Jan. 10: The principal of a Birbhum college today alleged that some "right-wing" students threatened him with "a repetition of the Raiganj incident" if he did not take action against the SFI members who allegedly beat them up in the college union room.

Calcutta, Jan. 10: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee today said Indira Bhavan will house an academy on Nazrul Islam, ignoring week-long protests by the Congress.

Calcutta, Jan. 9: Trinamul leaders today accused the Congress of "duplicity" and dared the ally to leave the state government, the comments made on a day a Congress minister declared from the Writers' podium that his party could not be given the short shrift.

New Delhi, Jan. 9: The Supreme Court today rejected an appeal filed by Calcutta Port Trust (CPT) challenging a September 29, 2011, order directing that status quo be maintained on the territorial limits of the port.