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40-year-old TMC worker murdered in WB’s Naihati
Updated on Feb 01, 2025 12:31 PM IST
Santosh Yadav, was dragged out of an auto-rickshaw and attacked by motorcycle borne assailants. He was first hit with bricks on his head. When he fell down, the goons shot him, said a police officer
3 including minor, his mother held for stabbing 24-year-old woman in Kolkata
The 24-year-old deceased was drinking tea at a tea stall on EM Bypass with her friend when the minor attacked her
Published on Jan 31, 2025 12:41 PM IST
Suspected smuggler behind bunkers discovered in Nadia, hiding in Varanasi: Police
The BSF discovered four underground bunkers less than two kilometers from the India-Bangladesh border in Nadia district, and seized 62,200 bottles of phensedyl cough syrup worth around ₹1.5 crore
Published on Jan 30, 2025 06:52 PM IST
Bengal school teacher arrested in diversion of govt grant for students case
The senior teacher had been missing since November last year after his name surfaced during interrogation of some suspects
Updated on Jan 29, 2025 10:02 PM IST
Bengal court orders production of Bangladesh terror outfit members in Assam jail
The Berhampore court passed the order on Tuesday on a request by the special task force of the West Bengal police
Published on Jan 29, 2025 06:33 PM IST
Bengal Cabinet approves land acquisition for India-Bangladesh border fencing
The moves comes amid tensions between the two countries over the construction of barbed wire fencing along some stretches of the frontier and cross-border clashes between farmers
Updated on Jan 28, 2025 10:02 AM IST
Cal HC reserves order on admission of state govt, CBI appeal in RG Kar case
Both the CBI and the state government separately prayed for capital punishment for the convict in the RG Kar hospital rape-murder case
Published on Jan 27, 2025 04:47 PM IST
West Bengal: Two Rohingya men arrested from Nadia, remanded in judicial custody
The Rohingya men, who identified themselves as Muhammad Noor and Muhammad Javad, were produced before a Nadia court and remanded in judicial custody.
Published on Jan 27, 2025 04:28 PM IST
Bengal’s Padma awardee Hindu monk came to limelight amid Modi-Mamata tussle
Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee in May 2024 accused Kartick Maharaj of helping the BJP in the then ongoing Lok Sabha polls and drew flak from Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Published on Jan 26, 2025 08:57 PM IST
RG Kar Hospital junior doctor heading agitation faces probe by Bengal govt
The move comes days after the state police initiated a probe against another trainee doctor from the same hospital who is also a face of the agitation following the August 9, 2024, rape and murder case
Published on Jan 26, 2025 04:57 PM IST
Two empty trains collide in Bengal’s Howrah; services affected
The empty trains were being taken to the yard through parallel tracks at slow speed when the accident happened between Shalimar and Santragachi stations
Published on Jan 26, 2025 01:19 PM IST
Doctors heckled and policemen beaten in East Burdwan hospital, 9 arrested
Sources from the hospital said that Samar Chakraborty was admitted with leg injuries. An altercation broke out late Thursday night when the patient’s relatives accused the hospital of medical negligence
Published on Jan 24, 2025 07:28 PM IST
14-year-old Bengal girl killed, body buried in paddy field; 2 arrested
Police said the girl was reported missing on January 9 and her body was found buried in a paddy field at a stone’s throw from her house
Published on Jan 22, 2025 07:48 PM IST
RG Kar: CBI, Bengal govt lock horns over right to challenge trial court order
Both CBI and the West Bengal government want the sentence to the RG Kar case convict to be upgraded to death, but the argument is driven by procedural reasons -- as well as political ones
Updated on Jan 22, 2025 07:11 PM IST
Analysis of samples collected from Kolkata doctor’s body also found woman DNA
A Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) report said the female DNA was found in a “very poor percentage” raising doubts on whether another woman was involved
Updated on Jan 21, 2025 12:08 PM IST
‘If this is not rarest of rare crime, which one is?’ asks RG Kar victim’s family
The RG Kar victim’s family refused to accept the compensation awarded to them by the court, saying that they wanted justice, not compensation
Published on Jan 20, 2025 10:41 PM IST
Expected death sentence, says Mamata Banerjee on RG Kar Hospital verdict
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said that the convict would have been sentenced to death a long time ago if the case had stayed with the Kolkata police
Published on Jan 20, 2025 07:12 PM IST
RG Kar case: Sanjay Roy sentenced to life imprisonment in rape, murder of doctor
Roy was declared guilty by the court on Saturday under Sections 66 (rape), 64 (causing injury resulting in death) and 103 (1) (murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS)
Published on Jan 20, 2025 03:18 PM IST
RG Kar rape and murder: Kolkata court to pronounce quantum of punishment today
A 31-year-old trainee doctor of RG Kar Hospital was raped and murdered in the early hours of August 9 while she was asleep after a long day at work inside the seminar room.
Published on Jan 20, 2025 09:33 AM IST
Actor Saif Ali Khan attack: Row in Bengal after arrest of suspected Bangladeshi
BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya said that INDIA bloc parties that exploit illegal immigrants as vote banks should apologise
Updated on Jan 19, 2025 07:27 PM IST
RG Kar suspect held guilty of rape, murder
A Kolkata court on Saturday held the main accused in the RG Kar Hospital case guilty of raping and murdering a doctor at the facility last year, in a gruesome crime that sparked nationwide outrage, protests, and strikes by medical practitioners
Updated on Jan 19, 2025 05:24 AM IST
HT Correspondent, Kolkata
RG Kar verdict: What went inside court room where Sanjoy Roy was held guilty
Sanjoy Roy, who was standing in the witness box on the right side of court room facing the judge, pleaded innocence and maintained that he was being framed.
Updated on Jan 18, 2025 10:45 PM IST
RG Kar verdict proves Kolkata Police carried out proper investigation: TMC
The parents and colleagues of the victim, however, stuck to their charges of a bigger conspiracy and refused to see Roy as the sole perpetrator.
Published on Jan 18, 2025 09:05 PM IST
TMC worker killed, two injured in Malda; prime suspect Zakir Sheikh arrested
Motorcycle-borne assailants attacked the three during a road inauguration ceremony in Malda district’s Kaliachak
Published on Jan 18, 2025 12:14 PM IST
Tensions simmer at Bengal’s border as India, B’desh spar over frontier fencing
Tensions rise at the Indo-Bangla border as BSF's fence construction faces objections from BGB, with villagers supporting BSF
Updated on Jan 16, 2025 05:54 AM IST
Joydeep Thakur, Sabdalpur
Bengal TMC worker murder: 1 arrested; search on for prime accused
A worker of ruling TMC was killed while two others were injured when they were attacked at a road inauguration ceremony at Kaliachak in West Bengal’s Malda district on Tuesday
Published on Jan 15, 2025 08:18 PM IST
Jyoti Priya Mallick, former WB minister, granted bail in ration distribution scam
Jyotipriya Mallick, who served as the state food minister from 2011 to 2021, was arrested on October 27, 2023
Published on Jan 15, 2025 06:17 PM IST
West Bengal: 5 illegal Bangladeshi immigrants arrested from outskirts of Kolkata
The men came from Kustia and Barisal districts of Bangladesh and were helped by an agent to find a house in West Bengal.
Updated on Jan 13, 2025 04:42 PM IST
21-year-old engineering student found dead at IIT Kharagpur hostel
Although it appeared that the student died by suicide, an investigation has been ordered by the West Midnapore district police
Published on Jan 12, 2025 08:40 PM IST
TMC inducts Kerala MLA PV Anvar who attacks CPM and Pinarayi Vijayan
PV Anvar quit the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Democratic Front last year after differences with the CPM leadership and Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan
Updated on Jan 10, 2025 09:43 PM IST