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north dinajpur news

Bengal school teacher arrested in diversion of govt grant for students case

The West Bengal Taruner Swapna Scheme was launched by chief minister Mamata Banerjee in 2022 (Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Updated on Jan 29, 2025 10:02 pm IST

Bengal undertrial prisoner, who fled from custody, dies in encounter with police

The undertrial prisoner was arrested in 2019 on charges of murdering a man. (Representational image)
Published on Jan 18, 2025 02:22 pm IST

‘Don't complain if anything happens…’: TMC leader's warning to voters

Trinamool Congress MLA Hamidur Rehman
Published on Apr 12, 2024 02:26 pm IST

4 children buried alive in a trench along Indo-Bangladesh border in North Bengal

BSF troops deployed at a border area. (Representative photo)
Published on Feb 12, 2024 08:27 pm IST

Bengal: BJP MP protests after cops bar her from joining Hanuman Jayanti event

BJP MP from Hooghly Locket Chatterjee (Twitter@me_locket)
Updated on Apr 06, 2023 09:25 pm IST

Calcutta HC orders Bengal government to get central forces for Hanuman Jayanti

West Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose visited the violence-afftected area after clashes broke out between two groups during a Ram Navami procession in Hooghly district. (PTI)
Updated on Apr 05, 2023 07:11 pm IST

Police on alert in Bihar, Bengal ahead of Hanuman Jayanti

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee blamed the BJP for stoking the violence. (PTI)
Updated on Apr 05, 2023 10:00 am IST

Communal violence in Bengal: HC seeks report

Ruckus and stone pelting erupt during the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Shobha yatra in Hooghly on Sunday. (ANI)
Updated on Apr 03, 2023 11:53 pm IST

Youth accused of rape and murder of north Bengal student found dead, BJP alleges cover up

A bus that was set on fire on Sunday in Bengal’s north Dinajpur district during clashes during a protest against an alleged rape and murder of a girl .
Updated on Jul 20, 2020 05:58 pm IST

Mob torches vehicles, attacks police in Bengal after teenager’s ‘rape and murder’

Locals set police vehicles and public buses on fire, block road during a protest against an alleged rape and murder of a girl in Bengal’s north Dinajpur district on Sunday.
Updated on Jul 19, 2020 10:58 pm IST

Beaten for alleged onion theft, 70-year-old woman commits suicide in Bengal

A kangaroo court had allegedly also fined her Rs 15,000 for stealing onions from her neighbour’s farm.
Published on Feb 04, 2020 12:13 am IST

2 arrested for attack on group protesting against CAA in Bengal

7 people were injured in the attack which happened on Wednesday evening.
Updated on Dec 19, 2019 03:46 pm 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

Homemaker’s body found buried inside oven in Bengal village; husband absconding

On Saturday, the neighbours became suspicious when they could not hear any noise from Hanif’s house. They went to inquire and found the house abandoned and part of the victim’s body jutting out of the oven made on the ground.
Updated on Oct 12, 2019 09:59 pm IST

Two suspected JMB operatives arrested from Bengal’s Malda district

After questioning the arrested JMB operatives, the STF officers have come to know that senior operatives of the JMB were planning to meet in Kolkata shortly to finalise their strategy before escaping to somewhere in South India.
Published on Sept 03, 2019 07:52 pm IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Bangladeshi actor Ferdous campaigns for Trinamool, Home Ministry frowns

The Home Ministry has sought a report from Foreigners Regional Registration Office on Bangladeshi actor Ferdous campaigning in West Bengal, reports ANI.
Updated on Apr 16, 2019 04:59 pm IST

Yogi Adityanath’s Bengal rally denied permission by Mamata govt

Adityanath was supposed to address a rally at Balurghat in South Dinajpur, West Bengal.
Updated on Feb 03, 2019 02:59 pm IST

High liquor sale during festival pushes Bengal’s revenue collection to record high

State finance an excise minister Amit Mitra had set a target of Rs10,500 crore towards collection of excise revenue in 2018- 19.
Published on Nov 12, 2018 06:10 pm IST

Congress worker shot dead in West Bengal, two others critical

In May, panchayat polls in Bengal were marred by violent clashes, which have continued over formation of panchayat boards.
Updated on Nov 05, 2018 12:04 am IST

Islampur firing Bengal’s biggest issue, say RSS-BJP; line up prolonged agitation plans

BJP supporters taking out a rally in Kolkata on September 26 , 2018 in support of the Bengal bandh on the issue of death of two former students in Islampur, North Dinajpur in alleged police firing during a protest against delay in recruitment of teachers.
Updated on Sept 28, 2018 06:42 pm IST

Kin of students killed in Bengal’s Islampur school agitation refuse to cremate bodies, demand CBI probe

Protest rally on the issue of school students death of Islampur, at Gariahat crossing in Kolkata on Sunday.
Published on Sept 23, 2018 10:28 pm IST

BJP, TMC lock horns over deaths of 2 men in alleged police firing in West Bengal

Villagers and family members of the two victims, Rajesh Sarkar, 19, and Tapash Burman, 21, have refused to cremate the bodies.
Updated on Sept 23, 2018 12:09 am IST

8 months into politics, AMU alumnus wrests sole zilla parishad seat for Left in Bengal

Md Shahid Siddiquee joined politics eight months ago after he was inspired by Forward Bloc MLA from Chakulia in North Dinajpur district, Ali Imran Ramz.
Updated on May 22, 2018 05:04 pm IST