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  • News from West Bengal | 22 May, 2025 | ৮ জ্যৈষ্ঠ, ১৪৩২
  • SBI official arrested in Kolkata for Rs 17 lakh fraud

    The deputy branch manager at State Bank of India’s Jadavpur University branch has been arrested in connection with Rs 17 lakh fraud case. The accused, Sumon Kumar Singh (38), was arrested outside the bank premises and has been remanded ...

    1 February 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Was unconscious for half an hour, then a Naga Sadhu helped me’: Survivors from West Bengal recall Kumbh Mela stampede

    For Sukla Debnath and Rakesh Kumar Roy, the Kumbh Mela’s Mauni Amavasya wasn’t a spiritual cleansing, but a brush with death.Sukla, from Alipurduar, had journeyed for days, her heart filled with devotion. “It took so many hours because ...

    1 February 2025 Indian Express
    A towering Saraswati idol in West Bengal to be ‘world’s tallest’, say puja organisers

    Made of bamboo, jute, thermocol, and paper, this Saraswati Puja in a small town of West Bengal will boast the world’s tallest idol of the goddess, measuring 111 ft in length, according to the organisers.To make the idol, two ...

    1 February 2025 Indian Express
    Sukanta Majumdar meets RG Kar rape-murder victim’s family, says will raise their issues with CBI probe

    West Bengal BJP president and Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar on Thursday visited the parents of the R G Kar hospital rape and murder victim and assured them that he would forward their grievances against the Central Bureau of Investigation ...

    31 January 2025 Indian Express
    RG Kar corruption case: Court pulls up CBI for ‘not informing’ about govt nod to prosecute Sandip Ghosh

    Pulling up the CBI for not informing the trial court about the West Bengal government giving sanction to prosecute Dr Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, and another doctor in a corruption case, ...

    31 January 2025 Indian Express
    7 junior doctors, 2 seniors and an RMO quizzed by CID in West Bengal expired saline death case

    The West Bengal CID has interrogated seven junior doctors suspended for their alleged role in the “expired Ringer’s Lactate saline” case and other irregularities at the Midnapore Medical College and Hospital (MMCH). According to investigations till now, new mothers ...

    31 January 2025 Indian Express
    You may have a SIM card on your name being used by others: Police bust gang operating in Kolkata, Bidhannagar; 9 held

    A SIM card racket operating in Kolkata and Bidhannagar has been busted by the police. At least nine people have been arrested for their role in the racket, the police said on Wednesday.A police officer from the Bidhannagar police ...

    31 January 2025 Indian Express
    HC forms SIT to probe gangrape case in Sandeshkhali last year

    Expressing dissatisfaction with the ongoing police investigation into last year’s gangrape case in Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas in which a Trinamool block president has been named as an accused, the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday ordered the formation ...

    31 January 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal: Prof ‘marries’ her student in classroom, probe ordered as video goes viral

    A purported viral video showing a senior woman professor getting “married” to a first-year student in a classroom at a state-run university has led to the university ordering an inquiry into the incident on Wednesday. The alleged incident took ...

    31 January 2025 Indian Express
    10 and 17-year-olds die of Guillain-Barré Syndrome in Kolkata

    The West Bengal health department sources on Wednesday confirmed that two people— a 10-year-old and the other a 17-year-old — have died of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) in the state so far.According to sources, the 10-year-old child was admitted to ...

    31 January 2025 Indian Express
    Prohibitory orders, xerox shops to remain shut in 100 metres from centres and more: Council issues guidelines for HS examination in West Bengal

    From imposition of BNS section 163 (prohibitory orders) and xerox shops to remain shut down within 100 metre of the examination centres, to question papers in poly pouches — the West Bengal Secondary Education Board on Wednesday announced guidelines ...

    30 January 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Planning and care must be maximal’: West Bengal CM expresses grief over Maha Kumbh stampede

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday expressed her grief over the Maha Kumbh stampede at Prayagraj.She posted on X, “I am deeply saddened to learn of the tragic stampede at the Maha Kumbh, which has claimed at ...

    30 January 2025 Indian Express
    Guillain-Barré Syndrome suspected after 17-year-old dies at Kolkata hospital

    A 17-year-old who showed symptoms of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) has died at a Kolkata hospital, sources said.The class 12 student from West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district died Monday morning at NRS Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.According to ...

    30 January 2025 Indian Express
    ‘At your own cost, risk’: Court allows jailed former minister to be shifted to pvt hospital from state-run SSKM

    AFTER a special Enforcement Directorate (ED) court sought a report from the state-run SSKM Hospital on former education minister Partha Chatterjee’s health status, the hospital on Wednesday submitted a report saying that his condition was “progressive”.Chatterjee’s counsel had recently ...

    29 January 2025 Indian Express
    Guillain-Barré syndrome: 2 kids hospitalised in Kolkata, doctors say ‘sporadic cases’

    TWO CHILDREN under the age of ten have been diagnosed with Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS), a rare neurological disorder, marking the first reported cases in West Bengal. The children, aged 8 and 7, are under treatment at the Institute of ...

    29 January 2025 Indian Express
    ‘At your own cost, risk’: Court allows Partha to be shifted to pvt hospital

    AFTER A special Enforcement Directorate (ED) court sought a report from the state-run SSKM Hospital on former education minister Partha Chatterjee’s health status, the hospital on Wednesday submitted a report saying that his condition was “progressing”.Chatterjee’s counsel had recenty approached ...

    29 January 2025 Indian Express
    Footfall at Kolkata book fair may cross 59 lakh this year: Mamata

    CHIEF MINISTER Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday that she expects the sale of books as well as the footfall during the International Kolkata Book Fair  to increase this year as compared to the previous year.Banerjee was speaking after inaugurating ...

    29 January 2025 Indian Express
    TMC leaders target RG Kar victim’s parents after latter’s counsel tells court ‘not in favour of capital punishment’

    After the parents of the victim in the RG Kar rape and murder case informed the Calcutta High Court through their counsel that they are not in favour of capital punishment for lone convict Sanjoy Roy, Trinamool Congress leaders ...

    29 January 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal Cabinet approves 0.9 acres for BSF for border outpost in Nadia

    THE WEST BENGAL Cabinet on Monday approved the allocation of around 0.9 acres of land in Nadia district’s Karimpur to the Border Security Force (BSF), potentially for setting up outposts or installing wired fences, a senior official said.The paramilitary ...

    29 January 2025 Indian Express
    To mend frayed ties, TMC launches health association

    AMID THE stand-off between the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) government and a section of members of the medical fraternity in Bengal, the TMC has formed a new association to “work as a bridge between the government and medical ...

    29 January 2025 Indian Express
    ZSI identifies 23 species of blood-sucking flies in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, 5 of them carry Blue Tongue disease

    The Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has identified 23 species of blood-sucking flies belonging to the Culicoides genus in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, with 13 of them being reported for the first time in India.Known locally as “Bhusi ...

    29 January 2025 Indian Express
    Tracking SIM used by Saif attack accused, Mumbai Police questions woman in Bengal village near Bangladesh border

    A Mumbai Police team, investigating the attack on Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan earlier this month, questioned a resident of West Bengal’s Nadia district on Monday in connection with the SIM card that was allegedly being used by the ...

    28 January 2025 Indian Express
    Convict in minor’s rape-murder appeals against death sentence, alleges ‘hasty trial’

    Mostakin Sardar, the 19-year-old man sentenced to death in a swift trial for the rape and murder of a minor girl in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, has appealed against the verdict in the Calcutta High Court, arguing ...

    28 January 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal expired saline death case: Calcutta High Court calls for case diary

    The Calcutta High Court on Monday called for the case diary in the case of expired saline allegedly being administered to new mothers at Midnapore Medical College.Jayanti Narayan, the counsel representing suspended anaesthetist Pallavi Bandhopadhay, submitted to the single ...

    28 January 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Not in favour of capital punishment’: Counsel of RG Kar victim’s family as Calcutta HC reserves order

    The Calcutta High Court on Monday concluded the hearing in the RG Kar rape and murder case regarding whether the application of the state for capital punishment for convict Sanjay Roy is admissible. The order has been reserved. Advocate General ...

    28 January 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Will express grievances in constructive manner’: TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee apologises for criticising party colleagues

    After criticising his colleagues, who are a part of the West Bengal Cabinet under Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee has backtracked his statement, apologising for his remarks.Taking to social media platform X on Saturday, Kalyan said, ...

    28 January 2025 Indian Express
    Sarod player Pt Tejendra Narayan Majumdar honoured with Padma Shri: ‘Such a big endorsement to classical music’

    Pandit Tejendra Narayan Majumdar was performing with Pt Bickram Ghosh at the IIT Kharagpur’s Spring Fest when he came that he was among those conferred with the Padma Awards this year.An exponent of the Maihar Gharana, Majumdar, 63, started ...

    28 January 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata Police band ‘stopped’ from performing at Raj Bhawan on R-Day; Mamata Banerjee confronts Bengal governor

    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday verbally confronted Governor CV Ananda Bose as a band of Kolkata police was stopped from entering Raj Bhawan premises to perform on the occasion of Republic Day. Instead of them, the BSF performed ...

    28 January 2025 Indian Express
    ‘My daughters are very excited,’ says Kolkata-based industrialist Sajjan Bhajanka on winning Padma Shri

    Reacting to the news of him being conferred with the Padma Shri award, Kolkata-based industrialist Sajjan Bhajanka Sunday said his family was delighted with the development.“My daughters are very excited,” added Bhajanka, Executive Chairman, Century Plyboards (India) Ltd.“Yesterday (Saturday) ...

    27 January 2025 Indian Express
    ‘My birthday was on the 7th and this is the most prestigious gift’: Mamata Shankar on Padma Shri

    A day after she was honoured with the Padma Shri, Mamata Shankar, who has stood out through her performances in critically acclaimed films, said Sunday she didn’t “expect anything like this”.Among the nine people from West Bengal who were ...

    27 January 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Dhaki Samrat’ Gokul Chandra Das gets Padma Shri, says will dedicate award to his guruji

    Gokul Chandra Das, who ended gender bias in Dhak beat by training 400 women, has been named among this year’s Padma Shri awardees.Speaking to The Indian Express, Das said, “I cannot express my happiness in words. After hearing that, ...

    27 January 2025 Indian Express
    Padma Shri honour for Bharat Sevashram monk Kartik Maharaj who locked horns with Mamata Banerjee last year

    Among the nine Padma awardees from West Bengal is Bharat Sevashram Sangha monk Swami Pradiptananda, also known as Kartik Maharaj, who had sent a legal notice to Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee last year seeking ...

    27 January 2025 Indian Express
    RG Kar protest movement: State medical council seeks details on junior doctor at forefront of stir

    The West Bengal Medical Council has sought detailed information about a postgraduate trainee (PGT) doctor Kinjal Nanda at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, from the college principal, seeking documents that confirm whether Nanda obtained permission from the ...

    26 January 2025 Indian Express
    Jailed ex-West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee admitted to ICCU as health worsens

    West Bengal’s former education minister Partha Chatterjee, prime accused in the cash-for-job scam in the education department, was admitted to the ICCU of the SSKM Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, Thursday night after his health deteriorated. A medical team ...

    26 January 2025 Indian Express
    North winds to bring cold back to Bengal, foggy conditions to continue

    Cold air from the north is expected to return to Bengal starting Sunday, leading to a drop of 3 to 4 degree Celsius in the minimum temperature by Tuesday, said the weather office on Saturday.The minimum temperature in Kolkata ...

    26 January 2025 Indian Express
    Kalyan Banerjee criticises conduct of TMC leaders as internal tension in party appears to continue simmering

    The tension within the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal appears to continue brewing with its Lok Sabha MP Kalyan Banerjee openly criticising the conduct of some party leaders, including their failure to defend the party during the RG ...

    26 January 2025 Indian Express
    Midnapore College woman death: BJP demands CM’s resignation; seeks Rs 1 crore compensation for family of deceased

    Leader of Opposition in State Assembly Suvendu Adhikari, along with other BJP leaders, on Friday took out a protest rally from College Street in Kolkata, demanding the resignation and arrest of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and health secretary NS ...

    26 January 2025 Indian Express
    BSF crackdown on drugs leads to underground bunkers near Bangladesh border in Bengal

    In a major operation, the Border Security Force (BSF) uncovered a large-scale smuggling racket involving underground bunkers in the Nadia district of West Bengal, used for storing contraband items. BSF personnel seized a massive consignment of 62,200 bottles of ...

    26 January 2025 Indian Express
    ‘30 Kolkata buildings are tilted, 90% due to faulty engineering’: Mayor Firhad Hakim

    Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim on Friday said 30 buildings in Kolkata are currently tilted, with 90 percent of these cases attributed to “faulty engineering”.Hakim’s remarks came in the backdrop of an under-construction building in Tangra leaning towards an adjacent ...

    25 January 2025 Indian Express
    Republic Day parade in Delhi: Bengal’s tableau to highlight state’s schemes, rich folk heritage

    During the Republic Day Parade this year at the Kartavya Path in New Delhi on Sunday, West Bengal’s tableau will showcase ‘Lakshmir Bhandar’ and ‘Lok Prasar Prakalpa’ as themes, in a bid to highlight the “empowerment and self-reliance” in ...

    25 January 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal: CID interrogates two suspended Midnapore Medical College doctors

    The CID on Friday interrogated two doctors in connection with the death of a woman and four other women falling critically ill following childbirth after they were allegedly administered ‘expired’ intravenous (IV) fluid at the Midnapore Medical College and ...

    25 January 2025 Indian Express
    RG Kar rape and murder case: Lawyer meets convict Sanjoy Roy twice in jail, wants to represent him pro bono

    Sanjoy Roy, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of a junior doctor at R G Kar Medical College and hospital, has been approached by a private counsel to represent him in court.This comes ...

    25 January 2025 Indian Express
    Woman’s body with throat slit found in Kolkata house: Police

    An unidentified body of a woman was found at the ground floor of a two-storied residential building in Diamond Park, in Kolkata on Thursday, said officials of the Haridevpur police station.A team of investigators from the homicide department, along ...

    25 January 2025 Indian Express
    Forward Bloc announces rally on Jan 29

    The All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) has announced a rally on January 29, from Mahajati Sadan to Dharmatala, to mark the birth week of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose who founded the party.“The rally will be held against the Central ...

    25 January 2025 Indian Express
    After state govt, CBI moves Calcutta High Court seeking death penalty for R G Kar convict

    The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) moved the Calcutta High Court demanding maximum punishment for convict Sanjoy Roy in the RG Kar rape and murder case.The matter was presented to the division bench of Justice Debangshu Basak by Deputy ...

    25 January 2025 Indian Express
    R G Kar Rape-Murder case: Opposition questions govt’s push for Sanjoy Roy’s death penalty

    Days after the verdict in the R G Kar rape and murder case was announced against convict Sanjoy Roy, where the Sealdah Court awarded him life imprisonment “until his last breath”, the Opposition has questioned the West Bengal government’s rush ...

    24 January 2025 Indian Express
    Panic over ‘illegal’ buildings tilting in Kolkata, officials take action

    Panic spread in Kolkata after two multi-storied buildings tilted against each other in the city, after previous reports of similar incidents in recent days.Located in East Kolkata’s Tangra, on Christopher Road in Ward 58 of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation ...

    24 January 2025 Indian Express
    In Saif Ali Khan stabbing probe, SIM card link leads to a Bengal village near Bangladesh border

    At first glance, it is difficult to fathom how a SIM card from this village in West Bengal’s Nadia district, near the border with Bangladesh, could find its way to the man accused of stabbing actor Saif Ali Khan.Villagers, ...

    24 January 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Bhumi Pujan’ done, foundation stone laid for Ram Mandir replica in Murshidabad

    A ‘Bhumi Pujan’ was performed and foundation stone was laid down Wednesday for the eight-inch Ram Lalla statue, the temple for which is being constructed on the lines of Ayodhya’s Ram Mandir, in Murshidabad.The foundation stone was laid down ...

    24 January 2025 Indian Express
    72 flights affected due to dense fog at Kolkata airport

    Flight operations at Kolkata’s Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) Airport were disrupted on Thursday due to dense fog, affecting the movement of at least 72 flights, officials said.Kolkata Airport director Pravat Ranjan Beuria said 39 departures and 21 ...

    24 January 2025 Indian Express
    Former BJP MP John Barla spotted at Mamata’s programme, says ‘will work for TMC if she blesses me’

    Former BJP MP and Union minister John Barla was spotted at a government programmed headed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday, sparking speculations that he is soon joining the Trinamool Congress (TMC).When asked, Barla said, “The ...

    24 January 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal expired saline death case: Suspended doctor moves Calcutta HC to quash CID case against her

    One of the doctors suspended over the death of a new mother at the Midnapore Medical College due to administration of expired saline on Wednesday moved the Calcutta High Court to quash the CID’s case against her. The matter ...

    23 January 2025 Indian Express
    Poster’s wordings at guesthouse irks CM Mamata Banerjee: ‘Is this a language?’

    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who was in Alipurduar on Wednesday to address an administrative meeting expressed her strong disapproval over the language on a ‘poster’ on display at the guest house where she was residing.The CM who photographed the ...

    23 January 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Will hear victim’s family and convict’: Calcutta HC questions whether state can challenge RG Kar rape-murder verdict

    The Calcutta High Court Wednesday questioned whether the West Bengal government has the right to challenge the judgment of a lower court in the RG Kar rape and murder case.The division bench of Justice Debangshu Basak, while hearing the ...

    23 January 2025 Indian Express
    Illegal Bangladeshi immigrant ‘who changed appearance before visa interview’ arrested in West Bengal passport scam

    Kolkata Police have arrested an alleged Bangladeshi national who had been “illegally” residing in India and had altered his appearance before a visa interview in connection with a “massive” passport scam in the state.The arrest comes as part of ...

    23 January 2025 Indian Express
    RG Kar Rape-Murder: CBI moves HC against life sentence to convict after objecting to state govt’s similar plea

    The CBI on Thursday filed an appeal in the Calcutta High Court, challenging the life imprisonment sentence awarded by the trial court to Sanjoy Roy, who was convicted of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at Kolkata’s ...

    23 January 2025 Indian Express
    Hard labour with daily wage of Rs 105 – how RG Kar rape convict Sanjay Roy will spend time in jail

    Sanjay Roy, the man convicted for raping and murdering a junior doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar medical college and hospital, will be made to undergo “hard labour” inside the Presidency central jail premises and get a daily wage of ...

    23 January 2025 Indian Express
    RG Kar Rape-Murder: Bengal govt moves HC against life sentence to convict, to seek death penalty

    Within 24 hours of a Sealdah court sentencing Sanjoy Roy to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the state-run RG Kar College and Hospital on August 9 last year, the West Bengal government ...

    22 January 2025 Indian Express
    Judge flags lapses in RG Kar verdict: ‘Kolkata Police treated case in indifferent manner; seems principal wanted to suppress something’

    In a scathing criticism of the initial probe by Kolkata Police into the rape and murder of a junior doctor at state-run RG Kar Medical College & Hospital, the trial court in its judgment said the police treated the ...

    22 January 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal: Missing girl found dead, 2 arrested

    The body of a 12-year-old girl, who had gone missing on January 9, was found from a paddy field near her home in a village in Basanti area of South Parganas district on Monday. The family of the girl ...

    22 January 2025 Indian Express
    From Crime To Punishment: RG Kar rape and murder case timeline

    2024August 9: Body of trainee doctor found in seminar hall on third floor of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.August 10: Kolkata Police arrests civic volunteer Sanjoy Roy; describes him as the only accused in the case. ...

    22 January 2025 Indian Express
    RG Kar case | As Mamata calls for death penalty, victim’s father reacts: ‘She should not do anything more… her police tampered with evidence’

    Within 24 hours of a Sealdah court sentencing Sanjoy Roy to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of a junior doctor at RG Kar Hospital on August 9 last year, the West Bengal government on Tuesday approached the ...

    22 January 2025 Indian Express
    Conspiracy to fan tension between India, Bangladesh: Mamata Banerjee calls for restraint

    Days after a clash erupted between villagers along the India-Bangladesh border in Malda district, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday advised restraint and asked people not to give into provocation and venture into the neighbouring country.She alleged that there was ...

    22 January 2025 Indian Express
    RG Kar rape-murder case | Duty is to ensure justice based on evidence, not public sentiment: Court

    The additional district and sessions court of Sealdah Monday stressed on the primary responsibility of the judiciary to “ensure justice based on evidence, not public sentiment” as it delivered the verdict in the RG Kar rape-murder case that triggered ...

    22 January 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Can’t believe it’s not rarest of rare’ — Mamata seeks death penalty in RG Kar rape and murder, promises to appeal ruling

    “I’m not satisfied,” Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said Monday after a Sealdah court sentenced Sanjay Roy — convicted in the rape and murder of a junior doctor in Kolkata’s state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital — to life ...

    21 January 2025 Indian Express
    At RG Kar, a sealed door, a symbolic bust — and signs of disappointment

    Outside the seminar hall at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, a white-and-blue tape has the words ‘Kolkata Police do not cross’. At any time of the day, the brown door with a wooden signboard is guarded by ...

    21 January 2025 Indian Express
    Massive security at Sealdah court ahead of RG Kar rape-murder accused’s sentencing: 500 cops, 3-tier barricades

    The entire Sealdah court area in Kolkata was cordoned off on Monday morning, with a three-tier barricade system and massive police deployment, ahead of the sentencing of the prime accused in the R G Kar rape-murder case.At 10.40 am, ...

    21 January 2025 Indian Express
    Life sentence for RG Kar convict as Kolkata court denies it is ‘rarest of the rare’ crime

    A court in Kolkata’s Sealdah Monday sentenced Sanjoy Roy to life imprisonment “until his last breath” for the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the state-run RG Kar College and Hospital.Roy, a 35-year-old civic volunteer, was convicted ...

    21 January 2025 Indian Express
    Verdict in 3 rape-murder cases after RG Kar in which death was the punishment

    Even as the RG Kar rape and murder case dominated headlines for months, sparking widespread outrage, in three other cases of sexual assault in West Bengal, the fast-track courts awarded death penalty to the convicts.Rape-murder of teen in SiliguriOn ...

    21 January 2025 Indian Express
    Revoke suspensions of 7 PGTs, probe matter: Midnapore junior doctors write to director of medical education

    The junior doctors at the Midnapore Medical College and Hospital (MMCH), in Paschim Medinipur, have demanded for the withdrawal of the suspension orders of the seven postgraduate trainees at the hospital, who were suspended last week by the state ...

    20 January 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata rape-murder: Court to pronounce quantum of punishment, convict Sanjoy Roy’s fate to be decided today

    Whether Sanjoy Roy, convicted of raping and killing a junior doctor at the state-run R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, will be awarded death sentence or life-term imprisonment will be known on Monday when Additional Sessions ...

    20 January 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal gets first glimpse of tiger from Jharkhand through trap cameras amid efforts to capture it

    West Bengal got its first glimpse of a tiger coming from Jharkhand as a trap camera was able to capture its picture on Saturday night. This comes as an army of forest officials, guards and a special team with ...

    20 January 2025 Indian Express
    Life or death for RG Kar rape and murder convict Sanjoy Roy? All eyes on Sealdah court

    After Sealdah Additional Sessions Judge Anirban Das on Saturday found Kolkata Police civic volunteer Sanjoy Roy guilty of the rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, all are eagerly waiting for the ...

    20 January 2025 Indian Express
    R G Kar rape and murder case: I have three daughters, can understand the pain, says Sanjoy Roy’s mother after his conviction

    Sitting near the door to her home in Sambhunath Pandit Lane, some 6 km from the Sealdah court, Malati Roy had been waiting for the verdict in the R G Kar Hospital rape-murder case in which her son Sanjoy ...

    20 January 2025 Indian Express
    BSF: Indian, Bangladesh villagers clash, situation under control

    An altercation between villagers living on the Indian and Bangladesh side near the international border in Malda district of West Bengal led to a clash and stone-pelting on Saturday afternoon, the BSF said.According to the BSF, the clash erupted ...

    20 January 2025 Indian Express
    Verdict in Kolkata rape-murder: ‘Many questions still unanswered, motive not clear’, say Jr doctors, to continue their fight

    The junior doctors who have been protesting against the rape and murder of the trainee woman doctor at the state-run R G Kar Hospital in Kolkata, have expressed dissatisfaction over the trial court’s verdict convicting Sanjoy Roy on Saturday. ...

    20 January 2025 Indian Express
    RG Kar rape-murder accused guilty, sentencing tomorrow

    Five months after the rape and murder of a young doctor at the state-run R G Kar Hospital in Kolkata shook the city and sparked protests across the country, a Kolkata court Saturday declared prime accused Sanjoy Roy guilty ...

    19 January 2025 Indian Express
    RG Kar rape and murder case: ‘We want Sanjay Roy hanged,’ slogans ring loud outside Sealdah court ahead of verdict

    Over 300 police personnel stood guard outside the Sealdah court complex on Saturday as prime accused in the R G Kar rape and murder case Sanjay Roy was taken inside ahead of the verdict.Justice Anirban Das, while delivering the ...

    19 January 2025 Indian Express
    A murder, a movement, and the search for justice: A timeline of events in the RG Kar Medical College rape and murder case

    It was a crime that shook the nation to its core.On an August morning, the body of a 31-year-old junior doctor was found in the seminar hall of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.More than six ...

    19 January 2025 Indian Express
    Uttar Dinajpur: Undertrial, who shot at 2 cops, killed in encounter, say police

    An undertrial who had escaped three days ago after he fired at two policemen, was killed in an encounter in Uttar Dinajpur district early Saturday, said police, adding he was trying to cross over to Bangladesh.The undertrial’s escape had ...

    19 January 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal: As curtains drawn on Gangasagar Mela, Sagar Island returns to fishing

    As the Gangasagar Mela festivities drew to a close, Subhodip, a young fisherman with weathered hands, eagerly cast off the lines from his boat, his eyes gleaming with anticipation. The 10-day hiatus imposed by the festival finally ended, and ...

    18 January 2025 Indian Express
    Private hospital in Kolkata launches rooftop helipad for emergencies

    A private hospital in Kolkata launched its rooftop helipad with a successful trial run on Friday. An Agusta 109 SP helicopter took off from Behala Flying Club and landed smoothly on the hospital’s helipad, marking a milestone in emergency ...

    18 January 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal passport scam: Accused made copies of documents & replaced photographs, say police

    Investigators probing the illegal passport racket in West Bengal said the recent arrest of a Barasat resident in the case has revealed the modus operandi of the criminals.The accused, Samir Das, allegedly posed as a clerk at the Barasat ...

    18 January 2025 Indian Express
    Death of woman in Bengal hospital: Junior doctors at Midnapore medical college begin ‘partial’ cease work

    A DAY after the West Bengal government suspended 12 doctors including six postgraduate trainees of the Midnapore Medical College and Hospital (MMCH), for “negligence” in the wake of the death of a woman after she gave birth, the junior ...

    18 January 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal: Man with ‘MPhil degree from JNU’ among 3 held for impersonating MHA officials, say police

    Three men were arrested in the Birbhum district on Wednesday for allegedly impersonating officials from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). They were produced before the local court and remanded in police custody for three days.The arrested accused were ...

    18 January 2025 Indian Express
    Denied Rs 10,000 loan, 38-year-old kills aunt: Police

    A 38-year-old man allegedly killed his aunt after she refused to give him Rs 10,000 and hid the body under a bed in her house in the Golf Green area of Kolkata, police said on Thursday.  Police arrested the ...

    18 January 2025 Indian Express
    RG Kar rape-murder case: Verdict likely today, victim’s father says ‘ready to wait for 5 years, snatch justice if needed’

    EVEN AS the verdict in the R G Kar rape and murder case is expected to be delivered by a Sealdah court on Saturday, the father of the victim – who was a junior doctor – said on Friday ...

    18 January 2025 Indian Express
    Junior doctors at Medinipur Medical College go on strike after Mamata Banerjee suspends their colleagues

    Junior doctors at Midnapore Medical College and Hospital (MMCH) in West Bengal have launched an indefinite strike, demanding the withdrawal of suspension orders issued against six of their colleagues by the state government. This action follows the alleged administering ...

    18 January 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Ram Lalla’ in Murshidabad ready for ‘bhumi pujan’, trust says idols will ‘reflect Bengali culture’

    An eight-inch Ram Lalla statue made of “asthadhatu” and hailing from Kanchi Kamkoti Peetham is ready, as trust members prepare to go ahead with the Bhumi Pujan for a Ram Mandir replica on January 22 in Murshidabad.However, the organiser, ...

    18 January 2025 Indian Express
    West Bengal: Ram Temple replica set for bhoomi pujan on Jan 22, Trust says idols will ‘reflect Bengali culture’

    AN EIGHT-inch Ram Lalla idol made of “asthadhatu” and hailing from Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham in Tamil Nadu, is ready, as the Trust members are preparing for ‘Bhoomi Pujan’ of a Ram Temple replica on January 22 in Murshidabad.The Bongiyo ...

    18 January 2025 Indian Express
    Bengal man held for renting house on fake identity

    A man from West Bengal was arrested on Thursday on charges of cheating and forgery for staying in Surat with a fake identity, said police.Officials said the man, Musibul Shaikh (26), told police that he had got a fake ...

    18 January 2025 Indian Express
    Kolkata building collapse: Mayor blames ‘Left era’, orders demolition; promoter arrested

    The absconding promoter of a four-storey building that partially collapsed in Vidyasagar Colony, Baghajatin, Kolkata, on Tuesday, was arrested by the Kolkata Police after a tip-off Thursday, from a resort in Bakkhali, in South 24 Parganas district.It was unoccupied ...

    17 January 2025 Indian Express
    Midnapore hospital death: Adequately compensate families of affected women, HC directs govt

    The Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered the West Bengal government to provide compensation to the families of the victims who were allegedly administered expired Ringer’s Lactate saline in the Midnapore Medical College and Hospital, in Paschim Medinipur, last ...

    17 January 2025 Indian Express
    ‘We will retaliate four times if a criminal fires on us‘: Bengal DGP goes ‘Dabang‘ after under trial shot and injured two cops

    In a stern warning directed at criminal elements following an attack on two policemen in Uttar Dinajpur district, West Bengal Director General of Police Rajeev Kumar on Thursday said: “If someone fires at police, we will respond with four ...

    17 January 2025 Indian Express
    Rs 6,000 cr bank fraud case: ED conducts raids in Kolkata, Howrah

    The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday conducted simultaneous raids at three places in Kolkata and Howrah in connection with the ongoing investigation into an alleged Rupees 6, 000 crore bank fraud involving at least 16 banks across the country, ...

    17 January 2025 Indian Express
    ‘Anti-national, dangerous’: Mamata Banerjee on RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s statement on India’s ‘true independence’

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday criticised RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s recent statement that India’s “true independence” was established on the day of the Ayodhya Ram Temple’s consecration, and called his remarks “anti-national and dangerous”.On Monday, Bhagwat ...

    17 January 2025 Indian Express
    Calcutta High Court directs Bengal government provide compensation to families of new mothers ‘administered expired saline’ in Midnapore hospital

    The Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered the West Bengal government to provide compensation to the families of the victims who were allegedly administered expired Ringer’s Lactate saline in the Midnapore Medical College and Hospital, in Paschim Medinipur, last ...

    17 January 2025 Indian Express
    In Mamata’s push for Gangasagar Mela, thrust on infra development

    Santosh Singh’s face, etched with worry, softened as he boarded the helicopter with his ailing father. “I never imagined such swift and compassionate support,” he said, his voice filled with gratitude.Prem Singh, 85, had cherished a lifelong dream of ...

    17 January 2025 Indian Express
    Death of woman in Bengal hospital: 12 doctors, PG students suspended, CM says probe found negligence on their part

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday suspended 12 senior doctors and post-graduate trainees of Midnapore Medical College and Hospital for “negligence” in the wake of the death of a woman after delivery, and said that the CID ...

    17 January 2025 Indian Express
    Gangasagar Mela broke records, 1.10 cr pilgrims took dip: Bengal

    West Bengal officials have said that the Gangasagar Mela, which began on January 1, has broken records with an unprecedented one crore 10 lakh pilgrims in attendance this year.The Minister of Power and Youth Affairs, Aroop Biswas, who lauded ...

    17 January 2025 Indian Express
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