CBI sources said that the CBI officer, who investigated the Tapasi Malik murder case in Singur, was arrested, on Sunday for taking bribe from an accused in a murder case.

Partho Sarathi Bose, DSP, Special Crime Branch of CBI, was arrested in front of an electronics shop in Ultadanga, in north Kolkata, by a six-member CBI Anti Corruption branch team which had come from Delhi.

The sources said that Bose was arrested while taking a bribe of Rs 50,000 from Avtar Singh,  an accused in the murder of a Directorate of Revenue Intelligence officer Tarun Dutta.

A complaint was lodged this year by Singh, in December , that Bose was demanding money from him. A trap was there after laid.

Kolkata, Dec 25 : Railway Police arrested 32 Myanmar nationals from Sealdah Railway station in Kolkata.

Kolkata, Dec. 21 : Medical fraternity is concerned over the prevailing double-digit mortality rate among infants despite a decreased rate recorded over the last few years in the country.

The infant mortality rate has decreased from 68 to 57 per 1,000 births in the country. But, reports say that only 41 per cent of women deliver in hospitals and clinics, the rest still deliver at home. Consequently, one-third women and their babies are deprived of post-natal care within two days of delivery that leads to neo-natal deaths.

In India, two-and-a-half million babies die on an average before they turn five years of age. Of these, 1.25 million die in the neo-natal stage; within the first 28 days of birth.

Kolkata, Dec. 17 : The Calcutta High Court has rejected the bail plea of industrialist Ashok Todi, the main accused in the Rizwanur Rahman murder case.

Justice B P Sengupta rejected the bail application on Wednesday.

Earlier, a bench comprising of Justice Amit Talukdar and Justice P S Banerjee differed on whether to grant bail to Todi. The matter was then assigned to Justice Sengupta by Chief Justice S S Nijjar.

Justice Sengupta, in his judgement said: "As Ashok Todi is the main accused and there is a strong prima facie case against him, bail can not be granted at this stage."

Kolkata, Dec. 11 : The Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India today decided to provide liquidity support to the housing and export sectors adversely affected by the recent financial market developments.

Kolkata, Dec. 11 : The Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, has warned that in the wake of last month's terror strikes in Mumbai, Pakistan-based terrorists pose a greater global threat than was previously estimated.

Stating that the November 26-29 attacks showed that Pakistan-based groups were able to operate at a "much higher level" than previously estimated, Admiral Mullen said now more than ever, there was an urgent need for raising the quality of counter-terrorism efforts.

The Telegraph quotes the Washington-based SITE Intelligence Group as saying that the US, UK and Israel is being lumped with India as enemies that should be made to suffer.