Calcutta News

Divorce doesn’t end maintenance: Calcutta High Court upholds wife’s monthly claim

‘No legal lineage’: New Calcutta High Court Chief Justice reflects on humble roots

‘Assault on public safety’: Calcutta High Court upholds illegal building convictions

Justice Ravindra Vithalrao Ghuge sworn-in as chief justice of Calcutta High Court

Calcutta High Court orders pension review for clerk over undisclosed rule

Army aspirant denied domicile over missing voter name gets Calcutta High Court relief

Calcutta High Court rejects plea, says marriage-like relationship can attract cruelty

Kolkata: Questioning the maintainability of a PIL regarding TMC chief Mamata Banerjee's alleged comments on the murder of a Bangladesh activist, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday observed that public interest litigations were being used as a special tool or w

Nihar Mukherjee is Mamata Banerjee s maternal cousin and a regional Trinamool leader. The body has been sent for an autopsy and an investigation into her death has begun

The Calcutta High Court has asked the special intensive revision (SIR) appellate tribunal to decide within two weeks an appeal filed by a woman whose name was allegedly deleted from the voter list, after she told the court that the issue was preventing her son

The Calcutta High Court has granted anticipatory bail to a woman teacher accused of pushing a disabled child and allegedly assaulting the child s mother with a knife, noting that the accused was a working woman and directed her to cooperate with the investigat

In a setback to the Mamata Banerjee-led faction of the TMC, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday refused to give interim relief in a petition against the Assembly Speaker s decision to appoint rival faction leader Ritabrata Banerjee as the Leader of Opposition (

Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Abhishek Banerjee approached the Calcutta High Court Monday, alleging that his bank accounts have been frozen without any valid reason, just as he prepares to travel abroad for medical treatment. Banerjee s counsel mentioned the mat

The national capital, like cities and towns across India, erupted in celebration on August 15, 1947. The day s first official ceremony was the swearing-in of Lord Louis Mountbatten as Governor-General, who until the previous night had served as the last Vicero

The investigation into the mysterious death of 30-year-old nurse at Nil Ratan Sircar (NRS) Medical College and Hospital, Rupali Barman, has taken a turn with preliminary post-mortem findings suggesting a possible drug overdose. Police, however, are awaiting de

Observing that even a trespasser is entitled to electricity , the Calcutta High Court set aside a trial court s order and directed the Calcutta Electricity Supply Corporation (CESC) Ltd to grant an electricity connection to a woman within three weeks. The cour

Independence Day 2026: Butto Kristo Paul & Co. started as a modest establishment focused on importing foreign medicines

The Supreme Court said Tuesday that it cannot fix a timeline for the tribunals formed to hear appeals against the exclusion of names from the voters list following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal but said it would look into the quantum of d

The Calcutta High Court on Monday allowed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) challenging the removal of loudspeakers from mosques across West Bengal. The PIL was mentioned before a Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice Atarup

The Supreme Court Monday allowed TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee to travel abroad for three weeks for eye treatment, overruling the Calcutta High Court s refusal, despite West Bengal s apprehension that he may not return amid multiple criminal cases. A three-judge be

Justice Ghuge and Tripathi will be elevated as Chief Justices of the Calcutta and Bombay High Courts, respectively, after the Central government clears their appointments and issues notifications. Justice Ghuge, who served on the Bombay High Court for nearly t