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Bibhas Bhattacharyya

Bibhas Bhattacharyya

Senior correspondent of Hindustan Times. I have spent more than 12 years covering crime as well as state political affairs. At the same time covering administrative and other events as per office instruction.

Articles by Bibhas Bhattacharyya

ISIS terror plan exposé prompts Mother House security revamp

A day after HT reported that suspected Islamic State (IS) activist Mohammad Mussa had planned to attack the headquarters of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in the city, Kolkata Police thoroughly revamped the security arrangements at Mother House.

Updated on Dec 26, 2016 04:04 IST

Didi asks her men to prepare list of those who lost jobs

Mamata Banerjee claimed that about 10 crore people have lost their livelihood following demonetisation.

Updated on Dec 23, 2016 03:08 IST

Elephant chasers feel cash crunch heat, more lives at risk

(Representative photo) Groups of villagers are hired by the forest department in Bengal to chase away elephants that regularly stray into villages killing people and destroying property.

Updated on Dec 22, 2016 04:45 IST

Forest department staff in Bengal lose sleep in festive season

Helped by low levels of water in the numerous rivers in the winter that run through the area, tigers in the Sunderbans regularly stray in human habitations.

Updated on Dec 20, 2016 05:01 IST

Father apologises to BDO after son is caught defecating in the open

In Bengal, the state government introduced its own version of Swachh Bharat, Mission Nirmal Bangla. The aim of this programme is to reduce the occurrence of water borne and fecal-borne diseases owing to the prevalence of open defecation.

Updated on Dec 16, 2016 04:29 IST

Baby selling racket member sold baby even to her own uncle

The CID also rescued 10 babies from Purbasha, a home for the specially abled, and recovered foreign exchange and gold from the owner of Sree Krishna Nursing Home that was at the centre of the racket.

Updated on Dec 8, 2016 12:00 IST

Bengal baby sale racket member sold infant to uncle for Rs 2 lakh

Three nursing homes and two NGOs have been found to be involved in the racket. At least 20 people, including three doctors, have been arrested.

Updated on Dec 8, 2016 11:53 IST

Demonetisation effect: 2,500 lose jobs as Howrah jute mill shuts

Though small business establishments reported great inconvenience leading to loss of jobs in the unorganised sectors, this is the first big bang closure of an industrial unit after the demonetisation decision.

Updated on Dec 6, 2016 11:03 IST

Bengal child trafficking: Couple who bought baby for Rs 2 lakh ‘duped’

The family in Kalindi near Dumdum was the first to buy a baby from the inter-state child-trafficking racket that the police busted in West Bengal earlier this month.

Updated on Nov 30, 2016 19:31 IST

Man identifies Bengal baby sale racket kingpin, claims he snatched his baby

Being born in a Caesarean section negatively affects a baby's ability to focus on a particular area of interest, says a new study.

Updated on Nov 29, 2016 13:45 IST

One phone call nailed baby racket kingpin

Tapan Kumar Biswas even cropped his hair, shaved off his moustache and discarded his SIM cards, but couldn’t escape the CID dragnet.

Updated on Nov 28, 2016 05:10 IST

Weak, malnourished babies were left to die

The perpetrators of the baby trafficking racket left underweight and malnourished babies to die, focusing all their care on the healthy ones that fetched fat amounts.

Updated on Nov 27, 2016 08:11 IST

How the gang of 13 CID sleuths busted the baby selling racket

Special superintendent, Akash Magaria, is leading the team. A 2009 batch IPS, he was the police super of Jalpaiguri district.

Updated on Nov 26, 2016 09:04 IST

After trafficking racket busted, CID finds skeletons of babies at Bengal NGO

The CID also rescued 10 babies from Purbasha, a home for the specially abled, and recovered foreign exchange and gold from the owner of Sree Krishna Nursing Home that was at the centre of the racket.

Updated on Nov 25, 2016 18:33 IST

Ten more babies rescued by CID, as newborn trafficking probe spreads wide

Around midnight sleuths raided a home for mentally challenged in Thakurpukur area, near Kolkata and rescued the babies who were locked inside a room. The babies were kept on blankets over a mat on a floor. According to sleuths, the babies are aged between one month and ten months.

Updated on Nov 25, 2016 05:55 IST

Boys for Rs 2 lakh, girls Rs 1.5 lakh: How Bengal’s baby traffickers operated

While newborn girls were sold for less if their complexion was dark, the boys got sold for not less than Rs 2 lakh.

Updated on Nov 25, 2016 01:49 IST

Tentacles of baby sale spread to ten Kolkata nursing homes

CID officers told HT that the mothers, all from poor families, were told that they had delivered stillborns, after which the babies were shipped to the office of an NGO Subodh Sarkar Smiriti Memorial in Maslandapur, North 24-Parganas, in biscuit cartons. The newborns were kept there for some days before the hunt for childless couples began.

Updated on Nov 24, 2016 05:08 IST

Kolkata: 3-day-old babies trafficked, packed in biscuit cartons

Not unexpectedly, newborn girls were sold for less — between Rs 80,000 and Rs 1 lakh if their complexion was dark, and between Rs 1 lakh to Rs 1.5 lakh if they were fair. The boys got sold for not less than Rs 2 lakh.

Updated on Nov 23, 2016 08:02 IST

Police informers refuse to accept banned notes in Kolkata

Despite being dependent on technology support, the police department is still dependent on human sources, which in their department is known as traditional source.

Updated on Nov 21, 2016 05:16 IST

By-election watch: all eyes on BJP votes

Four Lok Sabha and eight assembly constituencies are electing their representatives on Saturday.

Updated on Nov 19, 2016 11:33 IST

Mukul Roy to attend Samajwadi Party’s event

Senior MP Mukul Roy will be going in Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s place to attend the foundation day celebrations of the Samajwadi Party.

Updated on Nov 5, 2016 08:21 IST

Trinamool to take first step towards federal front with booklet

The booklet, the draft of which is waiting for a nod of chief minister Mamata Banerjee, will target BJP on a number of issues such as cow politics, love jihad, ghar wapsi, the Centre impinging on the federal structure of the country.

Updated on Nov 2, 2016 06:25 IST

BSF to deploy more floating border outposts along Bangladesh border

Speed boats are extremely important in maintaining vigil along the Bangladesh-Bengal border, some stretches of which are marked by rivers and the Bay of Bengal with numerous islands dotting the area.

Updated on Oct 29, 2016 04:53 IST

Bengal government to roll out noodles soon

Representative picture. The fisheries minister claims that the product will be unique as there are hardly any instant noodles that carry flavours of fish.

Updated on Oct 28, 2016 04:52 IST

Rice, daal, curry and fish @ Rs 21: Benfish to redefine cheap meal

It will be marketed under a project called Ekushe Annapurna and will be kicked off during the pujas at four points in the city. After the pujas it will be continued during lunchtime near office clusters.

Updated on Oct 5, 2016 05:18 IST

Royal Bengal Tigers to be released in North Bengal safari park

Six tigers will be released in Bengal Safari Park in North Bengal. The animals will roam in 50 acres of land. The tourists will visit the park in a bus. Rides will start from December.

Updated on Oct 2, 2016 08:43 IST

Don’t want war as it will take away many sons like mine: Uri martyr’s father

While the strikes across the LoC by the Indian army triggered a war cry among large sections of the population, Onkarnath Dolui, 64, who lost his son Gangadhar in the Uri attack on September 18, prayed that the attacks did not escalate into a war between the two countries.

Updated on Sep 30, 2016 04:17 IST

Uri martyr’s father to reject compensation by Bengal government

Onkarnath Dolui, father of Gangadhar Dolui, finds the Rs 2 lakh compensation humiliating that is also offered to families of persons who die after consuming hooch.

Updated on Sep 22, 2016 09:23 IST

Terror to keep Bangla dhakis away from Bengal this Puja

At the onset of autumn they cross the border every year, carrying dhaks on their backs. For the next few days, they work up a traditional rhythm at Puja pandals on this side of the border, earning a few extra bucks and, more importantly, lending an emotional touch to Bengal’s biggest festival. But not this time.

Updated on Sep 19, 2016 05:54 IST

150 employees worked 24X7 to prepare Singur land records

A government official (in white shirt) carries a ‘drone’ to the Singur plot on September 2 to survey the land before preparing land documents.

Updated on Sep 16, 2016 04:49 IST

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