Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed the Centre to resume disbursal of MGNREGA funds in West Bengal from August 1, while allowing the Union government to set necessary safeguards to prevent corruption. The matter will come up for further hearing after August 15. Between 2022-23 and 2025-26, Bengal was supposed to receive allocations..
Kolkata: In Bankura district of West Bengal, a young man accused of raping and killing an eight-year-old girl was reportedly lynched by villagers in the early hours of Wednesday. Patrasayar Police Station has initiated two separate investigations: one into the allegations of rape and murder, and another into the lynching of the accused. The individual.
Kolkata: The special investigation team (SIT) of West Bengal Police investigating the case of communal violence in Murshidabad said on Tuesday that they have arrested two other accused in the case. The accused persons have been identified as Kaiser Sheikh and Mostakin Sheikh. They are resident of Sulitala village in the Dhuliyan area in Murshidabad.
Kolkata: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers in Kolkata staged a rally from Sealdah Railway Station to the Deputy High Commission of Bangladesh there on Monday, protesting the vandalism of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s ancestral home in Bangladesh. The demonstration, led by prominent BJP leaders including Agnimitra Paul and Locket Chatterjee, highlighted the growing concerns.
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Police arrested six cyber criminals including one woman fraudster from West Bengal and Gujarat in separate cases of cyber fraud, the state Crime Branch said on Friday. The cops have arrested a female cybercriminal identified as Anushka Mitra (24), from Durgapur area in West Bengal in connection with an investment fraud case.
Kolkata: Tensions remained high in Maheshtala, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, as police continued their crackdown on protesters on Thursday. So far, 18 individuals have been detained. These arrests resulted from a joint operation by the West Bengal Police and Kolkata Police, which began late Wednesday night and extended into Thursday morning, relating to the.
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, while addressing the floor of the Assembly on the second day of the Monsoon session on Tuesday, accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of politicising the success of the Indian Armed forces during Operation Sindoor, the military strike, through which several terror bases in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir.
Ranchi: Three Bangladeshi nationals who escaped from the detention centre inside Jayaprakash Narayan Central Jail in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, have been arrested from West Bengal, officials said on Tuesday. The trio — identified as Nazmul, Reena Khan, and Nipah Akhtar Khushi — had illegally entered India without valid passports or visas and had previously served sentences.
Kolkata: A controversy erupted in West Bengal on Sunday over three videos released by the state unit of BJP with visuals of the “river of blood” on the streets of Kolkata in the aftermath of Eid-al-Adha festival. The police, however, refuted the claim, describing the videos as ‘fake’ while asserting that the clips are related.
Kolkata: Three members of a family, which includes husband, wife, and their only daughter, tried to commit suicide on Friday by consuming heavy doses of sleeping pills at Chandannagar in the Hooghly district of West Bengal. Already, the mother, Sunita Das (83), has been declared dead. The father, Ekendranath Das (87), and his daughter, Sharmishtha.
