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Bhubaneswar: Amid outrage over chief minister Mamata Banerjee's 'girls should not go out at night' remarks, the West Bengal police have apprehended the remaining two accused in the alleged rape of a second-year medical student from Odisha in Durgapur, taking the total number of arrests in the case to five on Monday. A temporary worker at Durgapur Municipal Corporation, Sheikh Nasiruddin, was nabbed last night, while Sheikh Safiqul, a local resident, was caught hiding at a relative's house in th ...Read More >
Kolkata, Oct 12: The West Bengal police arrested three persons in connection with the alleged gang-rape of a second-year medical student from a private medical college and hospital in Durgapur, West Burdwan district, on Sunday. They have not disclosed the identities of the arrested individuals but confirmed that efforts are underway to apprehend the remaining accused. According to officials, investigators have identified five suspects in the case. "Three of them have been arrested, while two o ...Read More >
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Kolkata: In a fresh clash with the Centre, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the BJP, especially defence minister Rajnath Singh, of "misusing" the Army after its troops dismantled a Trinamul Congress agitation venue in the Maidan area in the city stating that permission had lapsed. The location was Gandhi statue on Mayo Road where the ruling party had built a dais for its 'Bhasa Andolon' stir over the attacks on Bengali-speaking migrant workers outside the state. It falls under ...Read More >
Police arrested two, including a BJP Yuva Morcha worker, and registered a case Tension escalated in Durgapur after an incident near the Gammon Bridge under the Coke Oven Police Station area, where members of the BJP youth wing allegedly stopped a pickup van carrying cattle, assaulted the occupants, tied them up and forced them to do sit-ups while holding their ears. The victims are said to belong to the minority Muslim community. Trinamool Congress (TMC) district president Narendra Nath Chakr ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The Telangana state government on Sunday announced Rs 1 crore cash reward for singer Rahul Sipligunj during the Old City Bonalu celebrations. This fulfills a promise made by Chief Minister Revanth Reddy during the 2023 Assembly election campaign, where he had pledged Rs 1 crore if the party was voted to power. Actor Dulqer Salman called up on Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy at his residence in Jubilee Hills on Sunday. ...Read More >
Patna: Bihar Police on Sunday said it has arrested the prime accused and his three associates for the murder of gangster Chandan Mishra inside a private hospital in Patna. Those arrested include prime accused Tauseef alias Badshah, his associate Nishu Khan and two others. They were nabbed by the police forces of Bihar and West Bengal in a joint operation in Kolkata on Saturday evening and later brought to Patna. According to a statement issued by Bihar Police on Sunday, "Prime accused Tauseef, ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 20 (PTI) Star Indian long jumper Murali Sreeshankar clinched the title with a leap of 7.75m at the Meeting Maia Cidade do Desporto in Maia, Portugal, a World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze-level meet. The Asian Games silver medallist registered his best effort in the second round on Saturday night. Sreeshankar opened with a 7.63m jump, followed it up with his winning leap of 7.75m in the second round, and then recorded a solid 7.69m. His third attempt was a foul, while his fi ...Read More >
Patna, Jul 20 (PTI) Bihar Police on Sunday said it has arrested the prime accused and his three associates for the murder of gangster Chandan Mishra inside a private hospital in Patna. Those arrested include prime accused Tauseef alias Badshah, his associate Nishu Khan and two others. They were nabbed by the police forces of Bihar and West Bengal in a joint operation in Kolkata on Saturday evening and later brought to Patna. According to a statement issued by Bihar Police on Sunday, "Prime acc ...Read More >
Kolkata: During a joint operation by Bihar and West Bengal Police in the early hours of Saturday at a housing complex in New Town near Kolkata, five people were arrested in connection with the murder of gangster Chandan Mishra at a private hospital in Patna on July 17. According to the police officials, after the incident the five people in order to escape left Patna for Kolkata. "Four of the five arrested people have direct connection with the murder. Role of the fifth person is being ascerta ...Read More >
New Delhi: Leaders of the 24 party I.N.D.I.A. bloc met virtually on Saturday to finalise their strategy for the Monsoon Session of Parliament, which begins on Monday. They agreed to focus on eight priority issues, while reserving the option to raise additional local concerns as they arise. Among the key issues identified are Pahalgam terror attack and the Centre's response, Operation Sindoor and US President Donald Trump's claim that he brokered an India Pakistan cease fire ("five jets were sho ...Read More >
Patna: Three people were detained from Kolkata's New Town area in connection with the murder of a notorious criminal, Chandan Mishra, at a private hospital in Patna on July 17, officials said on Saturday. They were picked up during a joint operation by the Bihar and West Bengal police in the early hours of Saturday at a housing complex in the metropolitan satellite township, following the interrogation of a notorious criminal, Onkar Singh alias Sheru, who is lodged at the Purulia central jail in ...Read More >
Jaipur, Jul 19 (PTI) A gang, allegedly involved in the adulteration of coal imported from the US, was busted by the Rajasthan Police, leading to the arrest of an individual, a senior official said on Saturday. The gang was adulterating high-quality coal (petcoke) imported from the US, cheating cement and steel factories out of crores of rupees through this illegal operation, Additional Director General of Police (Crime) Dinesh MN said. A team from the Crime Investigation Branch had been gatheri ...Read More >
Kolkata, July 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Five persons have been reportedly detained from New Town in Kolkata on Saturday in connection with the murder of a gangster at a hospital in Patna, police said. Following a raid conducted jointly by the Patna Police and Special Task Force (STF) of the West Bengal Police, the accused persons were detained from a housing complex at New Town, said an insider from the Bidhannagar City Police, under whose jurisdiction New Town comes. When contacted, the Deputy Comm ...Read More >
Patna: Five individuals were arrested near Kolkata's New Town in connection with the murder of a hardened criminal, Chandan Mishra, at a private hospital in Patna, the officials said on Saturday. The arrest was made during a joint operation by Bihar and West Bengal Police in the early hours of Saturday at a housing complex in the metropolitan satellite township.Mishra, who hailed from Bihar's Buxar district and was a murder convict on parole, was fatally shot by assailants at a private hospital ...Read More >
Tight security arrangements have been made around West Bengal state secretariat 'Nabanna' in Howrah on Monday as "eligible teachers", whose jobs were annulled following a Supreme Court order, planned a protest march demanding their reinstatement, a senior police officer said. Although the route march of the 'Joggya Sikkhak Sikkhika Adhikar Mancha' (Deserving Teachers' Rights Forum) has not been finalised yet, Howrah City Police deployed senior officers at crucial junctions to maintain law and o ...Read More >
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], July 10 (ANI): The West Bengal government on Thursday submitted a sealed progress report on the alleged rape of a 24-year-old Law student to the Calcutta High Court. The state also produced the case diary before a division bench comprising Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Smita Das De, which reviewed the victim's statement under Section 183 of the Bharatiya Nyay Samhita (BNS) and the medical records. The court directed that a copy of the progress report be handed t ...Read More >
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], July 10 (ANI): The West Bengal government on Thursday submitted a sealed progress report on the alleged rape of a 24-year-old Law student to the Calcutta High Court. The state also produced the case diary before a division bench comprising Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Smita Das De, which reviewed the victim statement under Section 183 of the Bharatiya Nyay Samhita (BNS) and the medical records. The court directed that a copy of the progress report be handed to ...Read More >
Kolkata, July 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) The sleuths of the Special Task Force (STF) of West Bengal Police have secured specific information on how Mukesh Rajak and Rakesh Kumar Gupta, the two suspected ISI linkmen arrested in the state earlier this week, used to help their handlers in Pakistan to get Indian mobile numbers for WhatsApp messaging purposes. In the face of interrogation, the duo who are in police custody now have admitted that they used to procure prepaid mobile cards from the market usi ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jul 9 (PTI) Reports of violence were received from various pockets of West Bengal after Left-wing activists, supporting a countrywide general strike called by 10 central trade unions on Wednesday, clashed with police and TMC supporters in multiple districts, even as additional security forces were deployed to ensure normal life. The strike was called against "liberalisation, price rise of essentials, joblessness, increase in contractual work and other issues". Reinforcing its stand of ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 8 (ANI): The BJP's fact-finding team constituted to inquire into the case of alleged gangrape of a law college student in Kolkata submitted its report to party National President JP Nadda on Tuesday. Upon receiving the report, Nadda said that this report exposes the 'lawlessness' in West Bengal. 'This report exposes the utter state of lawlessness in West Bengal and the state government's alarming insensitivity towards women's safety. From Sandeshkhali to RG Kar Hospital ...Read More >
A Kolkata court extended police custody for the accused in the Kasba gangrape case. The accused include Monojit Mishra and two students, Zaib Ahmed and Pramit Mukherjee. A security guard, Pinaki Banerjee, also remains in custody. Defence lawyers requested fair investigation and opposed media trial. The court rejected bail for the security guard.The police custody of the three accused in connection with the alleged gangrape of a first-year student at a law college in Kolkata's Kasba area on Tuesd ...Read More >
The Kolkata Rape Case: Monojit Mishra, the key accused in the Kolkata law college gangrape case, continued to create headlines with shocking revelations about his wrongdoings as the investigation in the Kolkata law student gangrape case progressed. The latest disclosure is that Mishra had turned the union room at the Calcutta Law College into a bar and party spot. NDTV, quoting his batchmate, reported that the rape accused used to drink alcohol with his friends in the union room every evening. ...Read More >
Kolkata: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has named one MLA and two Councillors, among the 18 additional accused, in its Supplementary Chargesheet in connection with Avijit Sarkar murder case, who was allegedly a victim of post-poll violence. The central agency has filed its second Supplementary Chargesheet in the Avijit Sarkar Murder Case against 18 additional accused persons before the ACJM court in Sealdah. The Court on June 30, 2025 took cognizance of the offences against all the ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 2 (ANI): Congress MP Imran Masood on Wednesday slammed the Union Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sukanta Majumdar over his criticism of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government in connection with the alleged gang rape of a law student in Kolkata. Imran Masood termed the incident 'tragic' but questioned the BJP's silence on similar incidents in states governed by them, asserting that there was 'no point' in politicising such sensitive matters. 'It is a tr ...Read More >
North 24 Parganas (West Bengal) [India], June 29 (ANI): West Bengal's Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Madan Mitra has dismissed any allegations of the Kolkata Law college gangrape accused being linked to his party, stating that people falsely try to claim themselves as leaders of the party even as it has already condemned the incident and ensured that the accused is arrested. Bharatiya Janata Party has alleged that the Kolkata law college gangrape accused is linked to the leaders of Trinamool C ...Read More >
Kolkata: Senior Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee's remarks on the alleged gang-rape of a 24-year-old law student at South Calcutta Law College have triggered sharp backlash, with the BJP accusing him of showing sympathy towards the accused. The 24-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped inside the college campus on Wednesday, leading to the arrest of three men, including a current student, a staffer, and a former student linked to the Trinamool Congress. The incident reportedly took place ...Read More >
Kolkata: A student was allegedly raped inside the premises of a Kolkata-based law college on the night of Wednesday, leading to the arrest of three men, two students and a staff member who is also an alumnus of the institution. Police identified the accused as Manojit Mishra (31), Zaib Ahmed (19), and Pramit Mukhopadhyay alias Pramit Mukherjee (20). According to FIR, one of them committed penetrative sexual assault while the others abetted the crime. All three were named in the FIR based on the ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jun 7 (PTI) The West Bengal Police have submitted a charge sheet against 13 people in the father-son double murder case in Murshidabad's Zafarabad violence in April, a senior officer said. The murders of Haragobindo Das (74) and his son Chandan Das (40) took place on April 11 during the Dhuliyan-Suti-Shamshergunj communal violence, amid protests over the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 in the district. The riots left at least three people dead and many injured, besides forcing hundreds to ...Read More >
Berhampur (Odisha), Jun 6 (PTI) Environmental activist Medha Patkar on Saturday appealed to the people of Odisha for protection of Rushikulya river. The government planned to construct a dam in the river Pipalapnaka under Sorada block in the district. While participating in the Save Rushikulya river movement in Ganjam district, she said, "Rivers may be small or big, but they are our mother. We have to protect the rivers from attacks." She attended a meeting were organised by the Rushikulya Ban ...Read More >
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