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Hit by COVID blues, Bengal couple sell infant daughter for Rs 4,000
Kolkata: Parents of an eight-months-old girl child sold her off for just Rs 4,000 in West Bengal’s Midnapore district due to severe monetary crisis amid the continuing pandemic that hit…
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3 held with brown sugar worth Rs 1 crore from West Bengal’s Siliguri
Siliguri: Matigara police seized 1.2-kg brown sugar worth over Rs 1 crore from a goods vehicle on National Highway-31 and arrested three persons in this connection on Monday night. Siliguri Metropolitan…
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Crime
BJP worker’s body found hanging from tree in Bengal’s Hooghly
Chinsurah: The body of a BJP worker was found hanging from a tree in West Bengal’s Hooghly district on Sunday, police said. Ganesh Roy, a middle-aged daily wager, was found hanging…
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How Bengal went from ‘Laal Salaam’ to ‘Jai Shri Ram’
An in-depth look at how Bengal went from ‘Laal Salaam’ to ‘Jai Shri Ram’ in the space of less than a decade. From being a fringe political party in 2013…
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Titu Mir: West Bengal’s Tipu Sultan
The Wahabi movement enjoyed a special status when it comes to revolts against the British rule in India, and Titu Mir, whose real name was Syed Mir Nisar Ali, added…
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Crime
Bengal youth arrested for disrespecting the national flag
Ranaghat: A youth has been arrested for allegedly tearing the national flag in an inebriated state in West Bengal’s Nadia district, police said on Thursday. The incident occurred in School Para…
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Crime
150 kg ganja seized, 3 arrested in Bengal
Baruipur: Three persons have been arrested and 150 kg ganja seized from their possession in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, police said on Thursday. Acting on a tip-off, a police…
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Eid al-Adha celebrated in Bengal amid COVID-19 pandemic
Kolkata: Eid al-Adha was celebrated in West Bengal in a low-key manner this year as Muslim devotees on Saturday offered prayers at mosques and homes while maintaining social distancing norms amid…
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India
Handover mosques premises for quarantine centres: Bengal Imams
KOLKATA: The Bengal Imams’ Association has urged mosque and madrasa committees in the state to let out their premises for setting up of COVID-19 quarantine centres. In a letter, its…
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India
Bengal govt comes up with fresh guidelines in lockdown 3.0
Kolkata: The Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government on Monday held a high-level meeting and came up with fresh guidelines to partially restore services across the state. The meeting was held between…
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India
Bengal’s active COVID-19 cases touch 300
Kolkata: The number of active coronavirus cases in West Bengal touched 300 on Wednesday with 26 more persons testing positive in the state, a top official said. The death figure remained…
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India
SC upholds Bengal Madrasah Service Commission Act’s validity
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a law framed by the West Bengal government in 2008 to constitute a Madrasah Service Commission in connection with the appointment of teachers…
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India
AIMIM’s Bengal chief, other leaders arrested
Kolkata: AIMIM’s top leader in West Bengal Zameerul Hasan has been arrested in connection with an illegal road blockade in south Kolkata last week, police said on Tuesday. Hasan was taken…
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CAA-NRC
Anti-CAA protests continue to hit rail, road traffic in Bengal
Kolkata: Anti-Citizenship Amendment Act agitators threw stones at a local passenger train, and tried to block rail and road traffic in various districts of West Bengal on the fourth day of…
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India
Tension prevails in Bengal amid anti-CAA protests
Kolkata: Tension prevailed in West Bengal on Saturday, a day after protesters against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) blocked roads and vandalized railway stations, leading to disruptions in vehicular movement…
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India
Onion prices score a century in Bengal
Kolkata: The price of onion is bringing tears in the eyes of its consumers in Bengal, with a kilo of the staple costing a whopping Rs 100 on Monday in some…
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India
Bengal to provide Rs 50K to workers who returned from J&K
Kolkata: A day after her government brought back 133 workers, working as labourers in Jammu & Kashmir, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced on Tuesday that each of them would…
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India
Bengal labourers back from Valley after 5 killed
KOLKATA: A total of 138 labourers and workers, who had gone to Jammu and Kashmir to earn a living, were brought back from Srinagar on November 04. Their return comes…
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Crime and Accident
3 cops injured in firing by miscreants in Bengal
Kolkata: Three police personnel including a sub-inspector were injured while chasing miscreants who fired at them in West Bengal’s 24 Parganas North district, a police officer said on Saturday. All three…
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India
No detention centre to come up in Bengal: Mamata
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday ruled out any possibility of detention centres coming up in West Bengal on the lines of such camps for keeping illegal…
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India
Bengal passes stringent anti-lynching bill
Kolkata: The West Bengal Assembly on Friday approved a legislation that seeks to check mob lynching and contains provision for death sentence.Criminalising such offences, the West Bengal (Prevention of Lynching)…
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Crime and Accident
Teenage girl sexually assaulted in Bengal, 4 arrested
Kolkata: A fifteen-year-old girl who was out on a cycle ride with her boyfriend was allegedly sexually assaulted by four local boys in West Bengal’s East Midnapore district, the police…
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Crime and Accident
4 held with 10,000 Yaba tablets, FICN in Bengal
Kolkata: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Thursday seized 10,000 Yaba tablets along with Rs 1.96 lakh fake Indian currency notes (FICN) and arrested four drug traffickers in the Murshidabad district…
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India
BJP worker killed in Bengal
Kolkata: A fifty-year-old worker of Bharatiya Janata Party died after miscreants hurled crude bombs towards him in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, police said on Sunday. “Dalu Sheikh, 50, died due…
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Crime and Accident
6 killed in Bengal road accident
Kolkata: Six people were killed and 11 others injured when a speeding truck rammed into an SUV in West Bengal’s Malda district on Thursday, police said. The accident occurred on…
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Impose President’s rule in Bengal, BJP SC Morcha tells Governor
Kolkata: Accusing the Mamata Banerjee government of constantly “torturing and insulting” the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes in West Bengal, BJP’s SC Morcha on Saturday submitted a deputation to Governor…
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Business
Bengal rolls out free crop insurance scheme for farmers
Kolkata: The West Bengal government on Friday said it has rolled out a crop insurance scheme, in collaboration with the Agriculture Insurance Company of India (AIC), for the 2019 ‘kharif’…
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India
AIIMS doctors go on strike today
New Delhi: Doctors of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Monday announced that they go on a strike in solidarity with doctors across the country who are…
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Woman BJP worker shot dead in Bengal
Kolkata: Amid the ongoing post-poll violence in West Bengal, a woman BJP leader was allegedly shot dead in North 24 Parganas district, state BJP sources said on Friday. “Saraswati Das…
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Politics
BJP-called shutdown in Bengal’s Basirhat, normal life affected
Kolkata: Train services were disrupted and normal life in West Bengal’s Basirhat sub-division was affected on Monday due to a 12-hour general strike called by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)…
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