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ISI-backed Bangladesh terror groups raise spillover threat to India
New Delhi: The Indian security agencies are keeping a close watch on two terror groups and their splinters that operate out of Bangladesh. The Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB)…
- India
Abhishek alleges BJP goons vandalised TMC office in Kolkata
Kolkata: TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday alleged that armed BJP men barged into the party’s Camac Street office here early on Thursday and vandalised the premises. Banerjee claimed that…
- India
Bengal: Fire Department serves notice on Abhishek’s office
Kolkata: The West Bengal Fire and Emergency Services Department has served a notice on the Camac Street office of TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee, citing several alleged safety lapses, a senior official said.…
- Kolkata
Mahua flags religious bias against IAS, IPS officers to assns
West Bengal: Trinamool Congress (TMC) senior leader and Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra questioned IPS and IAS associations over their inability to address the alleged religious discrimination faced by senior Muslim officers…
- Kolkata
Mamata Banerjee’s niece found hanging in West Bengal
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee’s niece was found hanging at her residence in West Bengal’s Birbhum district on Tuesday, September 1, police said. The body of Bristi Mukherjee ,28, was recovered…
- Bangalore
Op Muktha: 31 Bangladeshis moved to Bengal for repatriation
Bengaluru: The Bengaluru police has moved 31 Bangladeshi nationals identified during a special verification drive to Malda in West Bengal as part of the process to deport them to Bangladesh. The individuals…
- Hate Crime
Deported to Bangladesh, 4 Bengalis return to India after a year
Kolkata: Six West Bengal natives, including three minors and two women, were picked up in June 2025 as suspected illegal migrants in Delhi, taken to Assam, and forcibly deported to Bangladesh. Four…
- India
Bengal: VHP’s Durga Puja ‘guidelines’ spark meat sale debate
New Delhi: A set of guidelines issued by the right-wing outfit Vishva Hindu Parishad on Durga Puja celebrations in West Bengal has triggered a political debate, with leaders from the JD(U), Congress…
- Hate Crime
No water since a month: Minority Kolkata colony alleges bias
Kolkata: Several hundred families in a minority-majority colony in West Bengal’s Kolkata have been living without water for nearly a month, with residents alleging links to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Ritesh…
- Kolkata
Only 2 pc of Bengal SIR exclusion appeals decided so far
New Delhi: Barely 2 per cent of the nearly 38 lakh appeals filed by voters excluded from West Bengal’s electoral rolls after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) had been decided as of August…
- World
Death toll rises to 359 in Nepal floods, 288 Indians missing
New Delhi: The death toll in the massive flash floods in Nepal rose to 359, as authorities in Nepal on Thursday, August 27, race against time to find hundreds of missing people,…
- India
HC grants protection to Abhishek Banerjee from arrest in 3 cases
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday, August 25, directed the police not to take any coercive steps against TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee in three criminal cases against him till November 30,…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Pedestrian check reveals man with 30 gm brown sugar
Hyderabad: The Excise and Prohibition Department officials seized 30.5 grams of brown sugar from a 28-year-old man during vehicle and pedestrian checks on Matangi Road in the Patancheru area on Friday, August…
- India
SC comes to rescue of 105-yr-old murder convict
New Delhi: A 105-year-old murder convict will now be able to live as a free man after the Supreme Court on Friday, August 21, closed the case against him and waived the…
- India
Amit Shah to visit Bengal for 3 days from Thursday
Kolkata: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will arrive in West Bengal’s Siliguri on the evening of Thursday, August 20, for a three-day visit to the state, during which he will attend programmes…