Новости за 14.01.2016

State Congress president Adhir Chowdhury's New Delhi visit, apparently to meet the party leadership, has stirred the possible alliance talks back home.

Former state transport minister Madan Mitra has not ruled out the possibility of contesting the 2016 assembly polls."It is for the party to decide.

Learning it the hard way, Kolkata Police has finally decided to scale up security along the practice route of the Republic Day parade practice route.

The Indian Air Force (IAF), while carrying out its own probe into Wednesday morning's hit-and-run case on Red Road, in which a Corporal was killed, has come to know that the Audi Q7 SUV involved had only one occupant.

In December 2015, he had posted the photograph of a martyred soldier in Facebook and written: "I too want the Tricolour on my chest." On Thursday morning, Corporal Abhimanyu Gaud had his wish fulfilled.

Barriers of religion, sexual identities, class and social norms will be broken in a unique journey seeking to embrace 'tolerance' and friendship in Kolkata on Friday.

Author Shobhaa De is in city to attend the Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival, that is being organised by The Times of India.

One of the most eagerly-awaited events of the city's cultural calendar, the Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival (AKLF) 2016, which is being held in association with The Times of India, got underway at a glittering ceremony at Nandan on Thursday.

Why is Santragachi Jheel turning toxic? TOI finds the answer.

Panaji: Mehrajuddin Wadoo and Denson Devadas have arrived in Goa and will join Sporting Clube de Goa in the next 48 hours if they pass a fitness test.

A desert in the middle of Goa? This is one of the bizarre requests wedding planners in the capital have gotten this wedding season

Celebrating the spirit of Kashi, the annual cultural fiesta of IIT-BHU, Kashiyatra, will have mythology as the theme this year.

In its bid to increase use of ethanol and other alternate fuel for transportation, government will come out with a new ethanol policy focusing on producing more ethanol within a month.

A major mishap was averted when the engine of the zoo train went off the track and came on the road but fortunately none of the visitor on board the zoo train was injured.

Al-Jazeera America, the cable news cable launched by the global Qatar-based media group in 2013, will be shut down April 30, the company said Wednesday.

Spain's first parliamentary session on Wednesday saw a lot of brand new faces, but perhaps most surprising of all was the presence of a five-month-old baby boy brought to work by his mother, lawmaker Carolina Bescansa.

Senior IPS officer Ashutosh Dumbre on Thursday took charge as joint commissioner of police, Thane, following the promotion and transfer of V V Laxmi Narayana. Dumbre is an officer of the 1994 batch of the Indian Police Service. He will be handling the high-profile Suraj Parmar suicide case, among others.

The lake city had recorded 135 cases of violence against the elderly population in 2014. According to statistics of the state CID, a total of 3,981 crimes were recorded against the elderly during 2014. Most of these cases were related to cheating and robbery.

Tommy Sugiarto was the hero for the Delhi Acers as he led his side to the summit clash of the Premier Badminton League (PBL) with his 15-11, 15-10 win over Brice Leverdez.