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PIL filed in Calcutta HC after police clean chit to ‘talent scouts’ outside schools
Kolkata: A few days ago, women clad in trendy burqas, with fashionable sunglasses shielding their eyes, started appearing outside some reputed girls’ schools in Kolkata just when the students were leaving for…
- India
Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim visits BJP councillor injured during protest march
Kolkata: Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim on Wednesday visited BJP councillor Meena Devi Purohit at a hospital where she was admitted after suffering head injuries during the saffron party’s march to West Bengal…
- India
What if WB followed UP’s bulldozer model: TMC’s Mohua Moitra on violence in BJP rally
Kolkata: A day after public properties were damaged in Kolkata and Howrah during the BJP’s mega protest march, TMC MP Mahua Moitra on Wednesday asked whether the West Bengal government should follow…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Case filed against BJP corporator for ‘promoting violence’ against police
Hyderabad: A case was booked by the L. B Nagar police against BJP corporator K Narsimha Reddy for allegedly asking his party workers to target the police for their alleged anti-BJP party…
- Kolkata
Video: Man with saffron shirt sets Kolkata police van on fire
Parts of Kolkata witnessed violence and hostility after a police vehicle’s windowpanes were smashed and the vehicle was torched. A video of a man lighting the fire with a lighter has been…
- Kolkata
Kolkata: Pitched battles between BJP workers, police; PCR van torched
Howrah: Roads around the 19th century iconic Howrah Station resembled a battleground on Tuesday with brickbats aimed at police personnel flying thick and fast, and drenched protesters hit by water cannons limping…
- India
BJP’s march to Bengal secretariat: Suvendu Adhikari arrested
Kolkata: BJP’s ‘march to the West Bengal secretariat’ against various issues of corruption on Tuesday afternoon received a setback much before its beginning as one of the three arms of the party…
- Kolkata
17 crore cash, 16 hours: Know about ED raid on Kolkata businessman
Kolkata: It took over 16 hours and eight counting machines for the Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials to count the heap of cash that was recovered from the residence of a businessman in…
- India
ED raids several places in Kolkata, estimated Rs 7 cr recovered
Kolkata: Enforcement Directorate (ED) teams conducted raids on Saturday at three separate places in Kolkata and recovered a huge amount of cash from the possession of a city-based businessman. Although the counting…
- India
Gujarat ATS, DRI seize heroin worth Rs 200 cr at Kolkata port
Gandhinagar: Gujarat Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) and Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) in a joint operation have seized 39.5 kg of heroin, worth nearly Rs 200 crore in the international market, from…
- India
Ponzi scam: Trinamool leader sent to 14-day judicial custody
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress leader and chairman of Halisahar municipality in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, Raju Sahani, was remanded to 14 days of judicial custody by a special court at…
- India
48-hour dharna by TMC against release of convicts in Bilkis Bano rape case
Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress women’s wing Tuesday launched a 48-hour dharna in the city in protest against the release of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang rape case, calling it “shameful…
- India
CBI quizzes TMC MLA in murder of BJP worker in Kolkata
Kolkata: Senior TMC MLA Paresh Pal appeared before the CBI on Tuesday in connection with its probe into the murder of BJP worker Abhijit Sarkar in post-poll violence in Kolkata. Pal, the MLA…
- India
NCRB report: Kolkata safest city, but crimes against women alarming in West Bengal
Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress leadership in West Bengal might be boasting of Kolkata being rated as the safest city among all the metros in the country in the latest report of the…
- India
‘Vendetta politics’: TMC cries foul on ED summon to Abhishek Banerjee
Kolkata: Dubbing the summons to its leader Abhishek Banerjee in connection with an alleged coal pilferage scam as “vendetta politics”, the Trinamool Congress on Tuesday claimed the move came following the ruling…
