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College principal assaulted for putting up message boards for saving environment

Principal of Chapra Government General Degree College Subhasis Pandey lodged a complaint that he was assaulted on Wednesday.
Published on Jul 03, 2025 09:56 pm IST

Two jewellery showrooms of same company looted in separate Bengal districts

The Nadia district police acted within 10 minutes of the crime and nabbed four members of the gang who were carrying a part of the loot. (Representative Image)
Updated on Aug 29, 2023 06:34 pm IST

Jadavpur University student death: ‘Stop Ragging’ placards, slogans at protest

Students and locals from West Bengal's Nadia district protesting against the death of a first-year student at Javadpur University.
Published on Aug 16, 2023 04:06 pm IST

‘Was she actually raped’: Mamata raises doubts on victim’s death

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday appeared to dismiss the Nadia rape as a “love affair”. (ANI)
Updated on Apr 12, 2022 05:03 am IST

‘Corona is gone’, says Bengal BJP chief at public rally. Then rebuts himself

A day after his Covid-19 remarks, Ghosh however said that he was quoted out of context and that Covid-19 is still there. (Videograb)
Updated on Sept 11, 2020 07:25 pm IST

Facebook alert saves man after suicide bid

The man posted a video on Facebook saying he was going to kill himself
Updated on Sept 08, 2020 10:08 am IST

Power restored, Kolkata limps back to normalcy

The announcement came hours after many citizens blocked roads, including in Kolkata.
Updated on May 25, 2020 10:32 am IST

E-literacy programme halted in West Bengal due to panic over NRC

‘Internet Sathi’, has been halted in West Bengal due to panic among people over National Register of Citizens
Updated on Jan 24, 2020 06:03 am IST

NRC, Citizenship Amendment Bill become issues in Bengal by-polls

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has declared that she won’t allow NRC in West Bengal
Updated on Nov 24, 2019 02:39 am IST

NRC panic grips Bengal, rush for updated papers

A Muslim woman checks for names in the final list of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) on a printed sheet of paper in Pabhokati village in Morigaon district, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, Saturday, August. 31, 2019.
Updated on Sept 26, 2019 07:11 am IST

CPI(M) worker shot dead in Bengal; party supporters block highway

Political violence is common in Bengal with opposition leaders alleging that at least two dozen political workers have been killed in different districts of the state since the results of the Lok Sabha elections were announced on May 23.
Updated on Sept 08, 2019 03:10 pm IST

One killed, 30 injured as Trinamool-BJP clashes continue to rock Bengal

Clashes between supporters of the TMC and the BJP took place in a few districts such as Birbhum, Bankura, West Midnapore, North 24 Parganas and South 24 Parganas. (Image used for representational purpose).
Updated on May 25, 2019 08:16 pm IST

Polling staff in Bengal district demand central forces, threaten to boycott polls

The polling station, comprising five booths, is in the Krishnagar Lok Sabha constituency that goes to the polls on Monday along with Berhampore, Ranaghat, Asansol, Burdwan East, Burdwan-Durgapur, Bolpur and Birbhum.
Updated on Apr 28, 2019 11:38 pm IST

Bharat Bandh: Sporadic incidents of violence in Bengal on Day 2 of trade union strike

There were reports of stones being hurled at a bus in Dasnagar in Howrah district that injured two students in the vehicle. A couple of small passenger vehicles were also vandalised in the north Bengal town of Cooch Behar.
Updated on Jan 09, 2019 01:03 pm IST

8 die after consuming hooch in Bengal, more than 40 in hospital

At least seven people died and 40 were hospitalised in Bengal’s Nadia after drinking poisonous hooch (File photo)
Updated on Nov 28, 2018 10:31 pm IST

Same sex couple living together allegedly beaten up in Bengal

The Supreme Court decriminalised same-sex relations on September 6 this year.
Updated on Nov 21, 2018 08:10 am IST

Kolkata records second organ donation in six days

One of Aditi Sinha’s kidneys was transplanted on Kolkata resident Usha Parekh at Apollo Hospital.
Updated on Aug 25, 2018 06:25 am IST

Nine needles removed from throat of 14-year-old girl in Bengal

Doctors found one needle at the back of the girl’s throat and eight near the food pipe after an x-ray.
Updated on Aug 01, 2018 04:36 pm IST

To protest NRC exercise, Matua community blocks roads, rail tracks in West Bengal

Trinamool Congress and Samajwadi Party members hold placards during a protest over the Assam NRC issue at Parliament House in New Delhi on July 31.
Updated on Aug 01, 2018 02:58 pm IST

DRI seizes exotic birds smuggled into Bengal from B’desh

The Pygmy Falcons which have origin in Africa were the most exotic birds in the catch.
Published on Jun 28, 2018 12:55 pm IST

CPI(M), BJP tie up to counter Trinamool in Nadia ahead of Bengal panchayat polls

TMC said that the political development in Nadia only proves that the BJP and the CPI(M) are having a “tacit understanding in Bengal”.
Updated on May 08, 2018 11:10 pm IST

13 killed, 25 injured in lightning strikes in Bengal

Lightning struck people during a nor’wester that hit different parts of West Bengal on Sunday night.
Updated on Apr 30, 2018 04:55 pm IST

Inter-state racket selling carcass meat from dumping grounds busted in Bengal; ex-CPM councillor among 10 nabbed

Police seized as much as 20 tons of meat from a private cold storage in the Narkeldanga area of Kolkata on Thursday.
Published on Apr 27, 2018 03:18 pm IST

Bengal CID nab four for cricket betting, 16 arrested since April 14 in the state

Ever since the IPL began, 16 people have been arrested across Bengal on charges of online betting.
Published on Apr 23, 2018 04:39 pm IST

Bodies of construction workers killed by Isis in Iraq reach Bengal villages, kin demand compensation

Relatives of Khokan Sikdar with the coffin at Tehatta in Nadia district on Tuesday.
Published on Apr 04, 2018 04:12 pm IST

Bengal schools rein in truant kids with radio tags linked to parents’ phones

RFID uses electronic fields to identify and track tags. It can be employed for a whole range of situations from realising toll from vehicles to registering attendance in schools and offices.
Updated on Nov 03, 2019 11:06 pm IST