Kolkata: The Border Security Force (BSF) has seized fake Indian currency notes with a face value of Rs 47,000 in Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 denominations from West Bengal’s Malda district and arrested one person, an official said on Friday. Acting on a tip-off, the BSF troopers nabbed a suspect[Read More…]
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West Bengal: 5 held for assault on Kashmiri trader
Kolkata: Five persons have been arrested for assaulting a Kashmiri shawl trader in West Bengal’s Nadia district, police said on Thursday. Jawed Ahmed Khan, 27, was assaulted by a group of people in Taherpur area on February 18 but he was rescued, a police officer said. He said Khan’s safety[Read More…]
Kolkata: Girl shares objectionable Facebook post over Pulwama attack, receives rape threats
Days after a Kashmiri doctor said he was considering leaving Kolkata city after his daughters complained of ostracism in school and neighbourhood in the aftermath of the Pulwama terror strike, a class-12 student from the same city received several rape and life threats for a post on the plight of Kashmiris[Read More…]
SC can’t look into closure report by state police in criminal case: Bengal
New Delhi: The West Bengal government on Tuesday said that the Supreme court cannot go into the validity of a closure report filed by the state police in a criminal matter as this jurisdiction rests with the magistrate’s court. The bench of Justice A.K. Sikri, Justice S. Abdul Nazeer and[Read More…]
Another JMB militant arrested in Kolkata
Kolkata: The Special Task Force (STF) of Kolkata Police arrested an operative of terror outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) who allegedly got training under Kausar, one of the key accused in Burdwan’s Khagragarh blast case of 2014, an officer said here on Tuesday. “Asif Iqbal alias Nadeem (22), an active JMB[Read More…]
Trinamool, Left, BJP take out rallies in Kolkata to protest Pulwama attack
West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress on Saturday organised a candle march led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee here to protest against the terror attack on a paramilitary convoy in Jammu and Kashmir that killed 49 troopers while the opposition Left Front and the BJP also hit the streets. During the[Read More…]
I dream of a world without caste, discrimination: Irom Sharmila
Kolkata: Manipur’s legendary human rights activist Irom Sharmila, who continued a fast-unto-death protest for 16 years demanding the repeal of an Act, on Friday said she dreams of a world without caste, discrimination and dictatorship. “I want to leave for my children a world without caste, discrimination, and dictatorship, and[Read More…]
Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee links BJP with party MLA’s murder
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee on Monday blamed the BJP for party MLA Satyajit Biswas’ murder and claimed those who are seeking protection from central leaders in Delhi will be brought back and put to justice. Biswas, a Trinamool MLA from Nadia district’s Krishnagunj, was shot dead from point-blank[Read More…]
BJP leader Mukul Roy named in TMC MLA Satyajit Biswas murder case
Kolkata: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mukul Roy was named in a police complaint here on Sunday in the Trinamool Congress legislator Satyajit Biswas murder case, police said. Biswas, a popular Dalit leader, was shot dead by unidentified assailants while he was attending a Saraswati Puja programme in the Nadia district[Read More…]
CBI begins to grill Kolkata Police chief Rajeev Kumar in Shillong
Shillong: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday began questioning Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar in connection with the chit fund case, an official said. “They (CBI) have started interrogating Kumar in their (CBI) Shillong branch office since 11 a.m. on the matter,” an official told IANS on the[Read More…]
