A FRESH controversy has erupted over Dearness Allowance (DA) for West Bengal government employees, after the Sixth Pay Commission report was made public by the state government on Wednesday.This comes after a Calcutta High Court directive that the report ...
28 June 2025 Indian ExpressThousands of devotees who are expected to attend the Rath Yatra festival, originating from the newly constructed Jagannath Dham temple, in Digha, in Purba Medinipur district, on Friday, will have to stand behind the barricades along the one kilometre ...
28 June 2025 Indian ExpressA 24-year-old student was allegedly raped at a law college in Kolkata this week, after which police arrested three men — a contractual staffer, who was a TMC students’ wing functionary, and two students.The three accused have been identified ...
28 June 2025 Indian ExpressFour years after a BJP worker’s murder in an alleged incident of post-poll violence, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested prime accused Arun Dey (50), also known as ‘Bhai’, from Teghoria near Kolkata on Thursday.The BJP worker, Abhijit ...
27 June 2025 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee arrived in Digha, in the Purba Medinipur district on Wednesday to oversee preparations for the first-ever Rath Yatra at the newly built Jagannath temple in the seaside town. The Chief Minister is set to inaugurate ...
27 June 2025 Indian ExpressIn a major push towards sustainable energy, NRS Medical College, Calcutta Pavlov Hospital, and Adyapeath Annada Polytechnic College have successfully launched a pilot project that turns kitchen waste into biogas to run their canteens.Guided by the West Bengal Renewable ...
27 June 2025 Indian ExpressTwo days after a 13-year-old girl died in a bomb explosion in Kaliganj, in the Nadia district, a forensic team on Wednesday examined the place where the incident took place and collected samples from the spot, officerssaid.With the arrest ...
27 June 2025 Indian ExpressTrinamool Congress (TMC) MP and the party’s second-in-command, Abhishek Banerjee, on Wednesday claimed that the BJP-led government at the Centre would soon fall, and that the party would be reduced to below 50 seats in the 2026 state Assembly ...
27 June 2025 Indian ExpressThe historical residence at 48A Kailash Bose Street, in Kolkata, where the country’s first widow remarriage had taken place has applied for a heritage tag.The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has been actively involved in the same so that the ...
26 June 2025 Indian ExpressHours after the district administration ordered a probe to look into claims that separate midday meals were being cooked and served to students of different communities for years at a primary school in the Purba Bardhaman district, the school ...
26 June 2025 Indian ExpressA 52-year-old man has allegedly confessed to murdering his elderly father in West Bengal’s Baranagar early Tuesday morning. He said he was “disturbed by his father’s old-age ailments”, the police said.Goutam Adhikary, son of 74-year-old Lalit Adhikary, surrendered at ...
26 June 2025 Indian ExpressWritten by Shambhavi Pandey.Several districts in South Bengal are likely to see light to moderate rainfall daily until at least June 28, with isolated heavy showers possible across parts of Bankura, Purulia, Purba Bardhaman, and Nadia.This is because of ...
26 June 2025 Indian ExpressTwo days after a minor girl died of a bomb explosion in Kaliganj, a forensic team is examining the place where the incident happened. The team is currently collecting samples from the spot as the victim’s family continues to ...
26 June 2025 Indian ExpressAfter multiple setbacks in court, the TMC-led state government got significant relief as the Calcutta High Court recently directed the Central government to resume the MNREGA scheme in the state from August 1. The BJP, however, has pointed out ...
26 June 2025 Indian ExpressKolkata is gearing up for the 54th Annual Rathayatra organized by ISKCON Kolkata, set to begin on June 25. The celebration carries the theme of “Let Peace Prevail” .This year, Lord Jagannath’s chariot will roll on newly fitted tyres ...
26 June 2025 Indian ExpressThe Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Kolkata Zonal Office, has provisionally attached movable and immovable assets worth Rs 27.19 crore in connection with the West Bengal Central School Service Commission (SSC) Group C & D recruitment scam.The attached assets, held ...
26 June 2025 Indian ExpressBlaming ‘the BJP’s language politics’, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday targeted the BJP over the issue of migrant labourers from West Bengal being allegedly harassed, detained and then pushed into Bangladesh.“It is happening in all BJP-ruled ...
25 June 2025 Indian ExpressBy Shambhavi PandeyFor the rest of this week, most South Bengal districts are forecast to experience light to moderate rainfall in several areas daily until July 1. From Wednesday, June 25, onwards, isolated heavy rain is expected in the ...
25 June 2025 Indian ExpressForty days after Robin Ruidas, a resident of Chanditala Junglepara village, went missing, his decomposed body was discovered on Sunday. Then, his wife and three of her family members were arrested.Police exhumed Ruidas’s body, which was found buried half ...
25 June 2025 Indian ExpressThe STATE Education Department has issued a circular instructing all government and government-aided secondary and higher secondary schools in the state to include 19 books written by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in their school libraries.A notice has been sent ...
25 June 2025 Indian ExpressThe family members of the 13-year-old girl who died in a crude bomb explosion in Nadia district on Monday demanded a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday. The explosion took place during what residents claimed ...
25 June 2025 Indian ExpressWritten by Shambhavi PandeyFor the rest of this week, most South Bengal districts are forecast to experience light to moderate rainfall in several areas daily until July 1. From Wednesday, June 25, onwards, isolated heavy rain is expected in ...
25 June 2025 Indian ExpressProfessor Suman Chakraborty, a nationally awarded scientist and eminent academic, officially took over as the Director of IIT Kharagpur on Monday.An internationally recognised expert in mechanical engineering, Prof Chakraborty has been a faculty member at the institute since 2002. ...
24 June 2025 Indian ExpressThe parents of the victim of a rape and murder at the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital last year have moved the Calcutta High Court, seeking permission for their legal counsel to visit the crime scene.On Monday, ...
24 June 2025 Indian ExpressWritten by Shambhavi PandeyWest Bengal can anticipate continued rainfall and generally cloudy skies for the next seven days starting Monday, according to the IMD. This persistent wet spell is influenced by several prevailing meteorological conditions.The weather office predicts generally ...
24 June 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday received Bangladesh’s newly appointed High Commissioner to India, Md. Riaz Hamidullah, at Nabanna. The two leaders held a warm, wide-ranging discussion, a statement said, though Banerjee’s office did not disclose specific ...
24 June 2025 Indian ExpressA 13-year-old girl was killed in an explosion in West Bengal’s Kaliganj on Monday, allegedly after a crude bomb was hurled during a Trinamool Congress (TMC) victory rally following the party’s bypoll win.Police detained TMC worker Adar Ali Shaikh ...
24 June 2025 Indian ExpressFollowing an order by the Calcutta High Court after a battle lasting over a year, Anuprabha Das Majumdar, a transgender woman, can now apply for a passport with her transgender identity card.Directing the passport authority to consider the transgender ...
23 June 2025 Indian ExpressWritten by Shambhavi PandeyThe India Meteorological Department has issued yellow and orange alerts for Sunday for parts of West Bengal, where thunderstorm activity intensified on Saturday. The low-pressure system that brought heavy rain has moved further away, gradually weakening ...
23 June 2025 Indian ExpressAN FIR has been filed against BJP state president and Union Minister of State Sukanta Majumdar for allegedly making derogatory remarks comparing the Kolkata Police’s law and order situation to sex workers in Sonagachi, a red-light area in the ...
23 June 2025 Indian ExpressDr Rajatshubhra Banerjee, the doctor who was recently detained by the police in Bhabanipur during a protest led by West Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar is now likely to face disciplinary scrutiny from the West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC).Sources ...
23 June 2025 Indian ExpressVeteran Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Sougata Roy, 77, was admitted to a private hospital in Kolkata on Sunday after experiencing loss of consciousness.The Belle Vue Clinic stated that Roy had several episodes of diarrhoea on Sunday. The TMC leader ...
23 June 2025 Indian ExpressThe Election Commission (EC) has undertaken a host of measures to ensure a smooth and peaceful counting for the bypoll to the Kaliganj Assembly seat in West Bengal’s Nadia district. The counting is slated to commence at 8 am ...
23 June 2025 Indian ExpressThe Paschim Banga Samagra Shiksha Mission (PBSSM) has suggested schools all across West Bengal feed stray dogs once a day to sensitise students “about the importance of taking care of such animals living in their neighbourhood”.“Some more activities are ...
23 June 2025 Indian ExpressA POLITICAL tussle has broken out over a video that surfaced on social media purportedly showing school students sitting in a classroom with umbrellas as water is leaking from the roof. The BJP has targeted the ruling TMC government ...
23 June 2025 Indian ExpressSTATE BJP president Sukanta Majumdar and a London-based doctor, Rajatshubhra Bandyopadhyay, were both detained by the city police amid a roadside conversation in south Kolkata’s Bhabanipur area on Friday.Although they were both released around three hours later, the incident ...
22 June 2025 Indian ExpressSome more areas in South Bengal got submerged after over 70,000 cusec of water was released from Durgapur Barrage on Saturday morning. According to sources, the water was released following heavy rainfall in neighbouring Jharkhand and Bihar. The areas ...
22 June 2025 Indian ExpressA BJP minority cell leader was found dead on the balcony of his residence at Goghat in Hooghly on Saturday morning with his family alleging that the “murder” was politically motivated. According to sources with the police, a probe ...
22 June 2025 Indian ExpressA major fire broke out at a warehouse and factory complex spanning over 30 bighas in Barasat’s Bamunmora Kadambagachi area around 7 pm on Saturday. Over 20 fire engines reached the spot and began efforts to douse the flames.According ...
22 June 2025 Indian ExpressA day after shoes, bricks and stones were hurled at him and his convoy in West Bengal, BJP state president and Union Minister of State for Education and DoNER Sukanta Majumdar on Thursday wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om ...
22 June 2025 Indian ExpressBy Debasmita ChowdhuryThe West Bengal government has included Nepali as an optional subject in the West Bengal Civil Service (WBCS) 2025 Mains examination, fulfilling sustained demands by the Gorkha community.Hindi and Santhali were made “compulsory language” subject options, according ...
22 June 2025 Indian ExpressNine people died in a head-on collision on National Highway 18 in West Bengal’s Purulia district on Friday morning. The accident, near Namsol Primary School in the Balarampur police station area, involved a car carrying nine passengers and a ...
22 June 2025 Indian ExpressIN A setback for the West Bengal government, the Calcutta High Court on Friday stayed the disbursal of monthly stipends announced for sacked Group C and Group D school employees whose appointments were nullified by the Supreme Court earlier ...
21 June 2025 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Thursday allowed a contempt petition to be filed against the West Bengal government for allegedly violating the stay on the interim Other Backward Classes (OBC) list in undergraduate college admissions in the state.Petitioner Purabi ...
21 June 2025 Indian ExpressA man allegedly growing disenchanted with his family’s perceived lack of religiosity, a recluse who immersed himself in religious literature and a “Rohingya sympathiser” who was allegedly making plans to escape to Myanmar. That’s the picture that the police ...
21 June 2025 Indian ExpressThe Election Commission of India (ECI) has sought a report from the presiding officer after taking cognisance of reports that the BJP candidate for Kaliganj Assembly seat, Ashish Ghosh, made a vulgar gesture after casting his vote in the ...
20 June 2025 Indian ExpressUnion Minister and West Bengal state BJP president Sukanta Majumdar on Thursday said that shoes, bricks and stones were hurled at his convoy by a group of people in Budge Budge area of South 24 Parganas district while he ...
20 June 2025 Indian ExpressBJP MP and former Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay is being shifted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, on Thursday for further treatment, five days after he was admitted to a private hospital in Kolkata with acute ...
20 June 2025 Indian ExpressControversy has erupted between a prominent Durga Puja organising committee in Kolkata and the city police, with the organizers alleging harassment over their puja theme of Operation Sindoor and the police citing serious public safety concerns based on last ...
20 June 2025 Indian ExpressThe National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) issued a notice last week to West Bengal Chief Secretary Manoj Panth, seeking detailed information on the surveys conducted for the newly announced Other Backward Classes (OBC) list in the state within three days. According ...
20 June 2025 Indian ExpressPolling for the Kaliganj Assembly by-election began on Tuesday morning under heavy security provided by central forces. However, voter turnout remained low in the initial hours, likely due to heavy rainfall in the region.According to the Election Commission of ...
20 June 2025 Indian Express(Written by Debasmita Chowdhury)The Eastern Railway zone is running trials for air-conditioned suburban train services which officials said will be offered at significantly low fares.It has received its first AC EMU (Electric Multiple Unit) train manufactured at Integral Coach ...
20 June 2025 Indian ExpressAs the bypoll in the Kaliganj Assembly segment in Nadia district comes less than a year before the elections in West Bengal, both the ruling TMC and the Opposition BJP are leaving no stones unturned to win the seat.With ...
19 June 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday hit out at the BJP-led central government over its decision to observe June 25 as Samvidhan Hatya Diwas (Constitution Murder Day), marking 50 years since the imposition of the Emergency.Calling the ...
19 June 2025 Indian ExpressAfter a series of escalating fire incidents across Kolkata and its surrounding areas, the West Bengal government said it is planning to propose the construction of 25 new fire stations across the state.State Fire and Emergency Services Minister Sujit ...
19 June 2025 Indian ExpressStating that no central scheme can be sent to cold storage forever, the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed the Centre to restart MGNREGA, the 100-day rural job guarantee scheme, in West Bengal prospectively from August 1.The Division Bench ...
19 June 2025 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said that her government will seek arrears from the Centre in the wake of the Calcutta High Court’s order for restart of the MGNREGA, the 100-day rural job guarantee scheme, in the state ...
19 June 2025 Indian ExpressWritten by Shambhavi PandeyThe southwest monsoon has intensified over Kolkata and adjoining areas, with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecasting heavy rainfall, thunderstorms, and gusty winds on Wednesday and Thursday. An orange alert has been issued for multiple districts ...
19 June 2025 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Wednesday ordered that the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), which has been stalled in the state for three years following allegations of corruption, be restarted from August 1.During the hearing, Chief ...
19 June 2025 Indian ExpressAs the Opposition BJP on Wednesday celebrated the Calcutta High Court’s decision to put an interim stay on the West Bengal government’s fresh OBC list, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the ruling was interim and under legal review.“We acted ...
19 June 2025 Indian ExpressA resident of Bidhannagar South filed a police complaint against the film Kesari Chapter 2 currently streaming on Jio Hotstar, alleging it distorts historical facts related to West Bengal’s freedom struggle.Ranajit Biswas, a resident of Nabapally, Sector IV, filed ...
19 June 2025 Indian ExpressThe undergraduate admissions process began on the West Bengal government’s online portal on Wednesday morning, for over nine lakh seats across 7,229 courses in 460 state and state-aided colleges.The first phase of the application process for the colleges, which ...
19 June 2025 Indian ExpressThe National Investigation Agency (NIA) has chargesheeted four more accused individuals in connection with the 2024 mob attack on Priyangu Pandey in Bhatpara, West Bengal, officials said on Tuesday.In its third supplementary chargesheet filed before the NIA Special Court ...
19 June 2025 Indian Express“We spent a night at a detention camp. Somehow, through the intervention of our state’s police, we were released. I will never go to work in Assam again. I have worked in different parts of India but never faced ...
19 June 2025 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Tuesday put an interim stay on notifications issued by the West Bengal government with regard to reservations to 140 subsections under OBC-A and OBC-B categories made by it.This comes days after Chief Minister Mamata ...
18 June 2025 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the West Bengal government to publish the report of the Sixth Pay Commission by July 1.The order was passed in response to a case filed by government employee Debaprasad Halder, who alleged ...
18 June 2025 Indian Express“We were herded like cattle. Wielding batons, the BSF jawans drove us towards the border with Bangladesh and asked us not to return. We ran towards Bangladesh. It was completely dark,” said Nazimuddin Mondal, a resident of Hariharpara in ...
18 June 2025 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday visited the Khidderpore market on Orphangunge Road, following a devastating fire that reportedly destroyed around 1,300 shops in the nearly 150-year-old market.During her visit, Banerjee announced a comprehensive rehabilitation package aimed at assisting ...
18 June 2025 Indian ExpressA Mumbai-bound Air India flight AI180 from San Francisco was halted in Kolkata early Tuesday after one of its engines suffered a technical snag , news agency PTI reported.All passengers were deplaned safely at about 0520 hours during the scheduled halt ...
18 June 2025 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court has sought a response from the West Bengal government on whether the matter about the posting of three junior doctors of RG Kar Hospital should be heard by the High Court or the state tribunal.Justice ...
18 June 2025 Indian ExpressWritten by Debasmita ChowdhuryThe Southwest Monsoon has now covered the entire state of West Bengal, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) confirmed on Monday. Consequently, it has issued red alerts for several districts of South Bengal today, June 17.The advancement ...
18 June 2025 Indian ExpressA stash of groceries for two weeks, eyes constantly glued to a missile alert app, and frantic dashes to a bunker several times a day — life has turned into a daily survival drill for a researcher from West ...
18 June 2025 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Cabinet on Monday approved the creation of four new posts – two in the School Service Commission (SSC) and two in the Kolkata Police Commissionerate.The Cabinet, under Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, gave its nod to the ...
17 June 2025 Indian ExpressAmid reports of West Bengal residents being detained by police in Maharashtra on suspicion of being illegal Bangladesh migrants and pushed into the neighbouring country, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday accused the BJP of targeting Bengali-speaking citizens in ...
17 June 2025 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a chargesheet under the anti-money laundering law against a Pakistani national, Ajad Mallik, who had been illegally living in Kolkata using forged Indian and Bangladeshi identity documents.In a statement released by the ED ...
17 June 2025 Indian ExpressFollowing the intervention by the TMC government in West Bengal, 36-year-old Mehbub Sheikh, a resident of Murshidabad who was picked up by Maharashtra Police and pushed into Bangladesh on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant, was brought back to ...
17 June 2025 Indian ExpressA 36-year-old man from West Bengal, who had gone to Maharashtra for work, was picked up by Maharashtra Police, suspecting him to be an illegal Bangladesh migrant, and was pushed across the border into the neighbouring country by the ...
17 June 2025 Indian ExpressA Border Security Force (BSF) constable was fatally shot by a fellow jawan late Saturday at the Dhulian camp, Murshidabad district, police and BSF sources said. The victim, 57-year-old Ratan Singh of Rajasthan’s 119th battalion, was killed allegedly after ...
17 June 2025 Indian ExpressA ruckus broke out in the West Bengal Assembly on Monday after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the BJP-led Centre of withholding MGNREGA funds for over two years. The BJP MLAs protested the remark with slogans against the Trinamool ...
17 June 2025 Indian ExpressWritten by Debasmita Chowdhury,The Southwest Monsoon is expected to reach parts of West Bengal within the next two days, bringing much-needed relief from the prevailing pre-monsoon heat. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert for several ...
17 June 2025 Indian ExpressAdditional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) Amit Sarkar of the Alipore Police Court on Monday granted the Kolkata Police further custody of Wajahat Khan till June 23.He had been arrested on June 9 by Kolkata Police for “alleged hate speech” ...
17 June 2025 Indian ExpressBengal Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari Saturday met with the victims of the Maheshtala communal violence and provided them financial relief at a BJP party office in South Kolkata.After meeting 23 affected families, Adhikari told media persons, “In the ...
16 June 2025 Indian ExpressThe process of removing ‘Kakdwip voter’ Newton Das from the electoral roll has commenced, confirmed sources in the office of the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer on Sunday. The decision follows a probe into allegations linking Das, a registered ...
16 June 2025 Indian ExpressAn FIR has been registered against Union minister and state BJP president Sukanta Majumdar at Kalighat police station in Kolkata for allegedly throwing a slipper at a Sikh official.The FIR, based on a complaint by local Sikh community members, ...
16 June 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal BJP MP and former Calcutta High Court judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay was admitted to a private hospital in Kolkata Saturday after complaining of abdominal pain. Gangopadhyay, 63, is being treated in the intensive care unit for acute pancreatitis ...
16 June 2025 Indian ExpressWritten By Debasmita ChowdhuryAfter the sweltering heat for the last few days, people of Kolkata woke up to heavy rainfall on Sunday. Meanwhile, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Sunday morning issued a Yellow Alert for multiple districts across ...
16 June 2025 Indian ExpressTMC has decided that the image of Chief Minister and party supremo Mamata Banerjee will feature on all official posters for the July 21 Martyrs’ Day rally.The party’s state leadership, during a meeting at the party’s Bhabanipur office on ...
16 June 2025 Indian ExpressThe farmers’ front of the All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) on Saturday said that they will sharpen their movement against alleged land grabbing in Howrah’s Panchla block.Farid Mollah, a farmer leader of AIFB, said the issue would be one ...
16 June 2025 Indian ExpressThree days after communal violence broke out in Maheshtala near Kolkata, the West Bengal Police Saturday transferred the sub-divisional police officer (SDPO) of Maheshtala.As per a notification of the West Bengal Police Directorate, a copy of which is with The ...
15 June 2025 Indian ExpressThe Kolkata-based Asutosh College has introduced 25 skill-oriented certificate courses from this academic year.According to college sources, these certificate courses will be conducted by different departments, and each course will be of 50 hours duration and spread over 12 ...
15 June 2025 Indian ExpressThe Top leaders of the Trinamool Congress, including party state president Subrata Bakshi, met Anubrata Mondal and his party rival Kajal Sheikh on Saturday ahead of the July 21 Martyrs’ Day preparation meeting.The meeting, which took place at the ...
15 June 2025 Indian ExpressBy Debasmita ChowdhuryWest Bengal’s Matir Srishti Project has transformed over 42,000 acres of degraded farmland into productive land without relying on contractors, officials said. Launched in 2020, this government initiative places farmers, organized into community-based organizations, at the heart ...
15 June 2025 Indian ExpressBy Debasmita ChowdhuryTWO MINOR girls, who were allegedly kidnapped and trafficked for prostitution to Hyderabad, have been rescued in a coordinated operation by the Prajwala organisation and the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of the Hyderabad Police, officers said on Friday.The ...
15 June 2025 Indian ExpressBasirhat police in West Bengal on Friday arrested 22 people, including two pregnant women, alleged to be Rohingya after they recently started living in an under-construction house in Baduria.Sources with the police said that on Friday, residents of Labanga ...
15 June 2025 Indian ExpressEven as the country mourns the loss of 241 lives in the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) Airport in Kolkata continues to face a pressing concern: over 200 obstacles around its ...
14 June 2025 Indian ExpressTrinamool Congress (TMC) state president Subrata Bakshi has called a meeting of all district-level leaders on Saturday at his residence to begin preparations for the party’s biggest annual event, the July 21 Martyrs’ Day rally.According to TMC sources, while ...
14 June 2025 Indian ExpressAN UNEASY calm prevails in Rabindranagar and surrounding areas, including Maheshtala, days after Wednesday’s clashes. Residents remain largely indoors, with shops and markets shut, as a massive police deployment keeps a tight vigil over the affected localities.Prohibitory orders are ...
14 June 2025 Indian ExpressIndia on Thursday condemned the ransacking of the ancestral home of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore in Bangladesh by a mob, terming the violent attack a “disgrace” to the memory and inclusive philosophy espoused by the poet.West Bengal Chief Minister ...
14 June 2025 Indian ExpressAt least 40 people have been arrested and seven FIRs have been registered within 24 hours of the clashes that broke out in the Rabindranagar area of Maheshtala in South 24 Parganas district, and soon spread to the adjacent ...
14 June 2025 Indian Express“I was sitting in our cake shop when suddenly a mob came and started pelting stones. I was hit and started bleeding. However, I waited for the mob to leave… Only then was I rushed to the hospital,” 25-year-old ...
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