Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, Sushmita Dev and Prakash Chik Baraik (L-R) KOLKATA: The bypolls to three Rajya Sabha seats from West Bengal have highlighted the political impact of the split in the opposition Trinamool Congress (TMC), with the changed numbers in the state Assembly placing the BJP in a strong position to potentially win all three…
Agartala: Tripura is eyeing investment proposals worth Rs 1 lakh crore at the two-day Destination Tripura Business Conclave-2026, starting July 9. The event expects over 500 delegates.Chief minister Dr Manik Saha said Union DoNER Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia will participate. “We received encouraging responses from domestic and international investors to create jobs and boost GSDP,” Dr…
CM Mamata Banerjee at a candlelight march near her Kalighat residence on Monday to protest the Baruipur rape-murder Kolkata: With cops putting up guardrails around Kalighat, former CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday joined a candlelight march near her residence to protest the rape-murder of a minor in Baruipur.Earlier during the day, a Trinamool delegation met…
Kolkata: Suicide due to dowry-related torture is “not very rare or uncommon”, the Calcutta High Court observed on Monday while reducing a man’s life sentence to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment in connection with the 2014 deaths by suicide of his wife and their minor daughter.The division bench of justices Arijit Banerjee and Apurba Sinha Ray…
Kolkata: The EC on Monday announced bypolls to three Rajya Sabha seats from Bengal, setting July 24 as the polling date. This comes following the resignation of three former Trinamool members — Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, Sushmita Dev and Prakash Chik Baraik — from the RS. With 207 MLAs, BJP is likely to win all three…
CM Suvendu Adhikari at Mitra Institution on Monday to observe Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s birth anniversary 447 wordsKolkata: Assuring that the Bengal govt will seek capital punishment for all accused in the Baruipur rape-murder case, CM Suvendu Adhikari, who is likely to meet the bereaved family on Tuesday, said the mob violence had a communal angle…
Kolkata: Police in North Dinajpur’s Islampur used drones and monitored digital footprints in a three-day operation to bust a commercial sex racket and rescue 39 minor girls, including an 11-year-old, on Monday. Six alleged traffickers were arrested and charged under anti-trafficking laws and the POCSO Act.The racket came to light after an NGO field worker…
A CCTV clip captures the last moments of an 11-year-old girl before she was allegedly gang-raped and murdered in West Bengal KOLKATA: A grainy 13-second CCTV clip has emerged as the last known visual of an unsuspecting 11-year-old girl who had stepped out to buy a birthday gift for a friend in West Bengal’s Baruipur,…
A horrific crime has emerged in West Bengal’s Baruipur, where an 11-year-old girl, allegedly raped and murdered, was found to have been thrown into a pond alive. KOLKATA: An 11-year-old girl who was allegedly raped and murdered in West Bengal’s Baruipur was thrown into a pond while still alive, a preliminary post-mortem report has revealed,…
Md. Ali Park —– Photo by Indranil Das Kolkata: Youth Association, the organisers of the famous Mohammad Ali Park Durga Puja, have said that they have neither changed the name of the festival nor support any move to rename the historic central Kolkata park, distancing themselves from the hoardings describing the puja as “Shree Mahabali…
