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India’s total crimes against women reach 4.45 lakh; Bengal 34,500 in 2023: NCRB
Kolkata: West Bengal recorded 34,691 cases of crimes against women in 2023, the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data shows. Adding 10,024 pending cases from 2022, the total caseload under investigation…
- India
Calcutta HC orders repatriation of Bengali family deported to Bangladesh
The Calcutta High Court on Friday, September 26, struck down the deportation of a family from Bengal to Bangladesh and ordered its repatriation. The court observed that the authorities deported the family…
- India
Guv proposes WB migrant workers portal, MoUs, welfare officers
Kolkata: A day after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced a scheme to rehabilitate migrant labourers from West Bengal allegedly harassed outside the state, Governor CV Ananda Bose put forward a set of…
- India
Bangladeshi criminal hiding under guise of ‘sadhu’ in Bengal held
Kolkata: A Bangladeshi criminal, who had entered India and had been hiding in West Bengal under the guise of a monk, was arrested from Nadia district, police said on Sunday. Acting on…
- India
Security for Pakistani prisoners in Bengal Correctional Homes tightened
Kolkata: Security for Pakistani prisoners lodged in different correctional homes in West Bengal has been further tightened, an official said on Saturday. Time and again, the security of these prisoners at the…
- India
Murshidabad riots: Guv reports to MHA, cites ‘radicalisation’ threat in Bengal
Kolkata: West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose has submitted a report on the recent riots in Murshidabad district to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, mentioning that the “twin spectre of…
- Entertainment
When Satyajit Ray spoke about his ambition of adapting ‘Mahabharata’ to screen
Mumbai: An old video of the late filmmaker Satyajit Ray has re-surfaced on the Internet, in which the filmmaker spoke about his ambition of adapting the Indian epic of ‘Mahabharata’. The video…
- Politics
Trinamool to contest 2026 Bengal elections alone: Mamata Banerjee
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Monday, informed party legislators, that Trinamool Congress will be contesting alone in the Bengal Assembly elections in 2026 without having any understanding with another…
- Kolkata
Mamata Banerjee congratulates Bengal students for Statistical Service Success
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday congratulated Sinchan Snigdha Adhikary and Biltu Maji who topped the Indian Statistical Service examination, stating that her government’s emphasis on encouraging students for…
- India
Youth arrested for raping 5-year old girl in Bengal’s Murshidabad
Kolkata: A youth was arrested on the charges of raping a five-year-old girl in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district. The accused was caught red-handed by the victim’s father and his neighbours in a…
- India
HC grants bail to Bengal school job scam accused Sujay Krishna Bhadra
Kolkata: A single-judge bench of Calcutta High Court on Friday granted bail to Sujay Krishna Bhadra, prime accused in the cash-for-school job case in West Bengal registered against him by the Enforcement…
- India
104-year-old man released after spending 36 years in Bengal Jail
Kolkata/Malda: A 104-year-old man released from West Bengal’s Malda Correctional Home after languishing in jail for 36 years said he will spend time with his family members and do gardening. Rasikt Mondal…
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Bengal school jobs scam accused Arpita granted bail by ED court
Kolkata: A designated ED court here on Monday granted bail to Arpita Mukherjee, who was arrested by the central agency in July 2022 in connection with the school jobs scam in West…
- Kolkata
Will stage protest at border if attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh don’t stop: Bengal LoP
Kolkata: Senior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday said that a protest would be staged at the India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal’s Petrapole if attacks on minority Hindus in the neighbouring country…
- India
Mass resignations not legally acceptable: West Bengal government
Kolkata: Mass resignations by senior doctors, including members of the medico-academic fraternity, from different state-run medical colleges & hospitals of West Bengal to express solidarity to junior doctors protesting against the ghastly…
