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Kolkata court rejects ED petition for minister's custody in bribe-for-job case

India, Sept. 24 -- A Kolkata court on Wednesday rejected the Enforcement Directorate's petition seeking custody of West Bengal correctional services minister Chandranath Sinha for interrogation in the... Read More


Large parts of Kolkata waterlogged after heavy rainfall before Durga Puja

India, Sept. 23 -- Heavy rainfall that continued for almost seven hours between Monday night and early Tuesday morning inundated large parts of Kolkata, police and government officials said. The Indi... Read More


Four years after Mamata Banerjee's only electoral defeat, Nandigram in TMC's crosshairs

India, Sept. 22 -- East Midnapore district's Nandigram - where West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee unsuccessfully contested against her protege-turned-bete noire Suvendu Adhikari in 2021 - is i... Read More


Bengal teacher held in Class 7 girl's murder, denies rape but admits dismemberment: Police

India, Sept. 18 -- The school teacher, arrested a day after the decomposed body of a Class 7 student was found in Rampurhat, West Bengal's Birbhum district, denied raping the girl but admitted to disp... Read More


Teacher held after body of missing Class 7 girl found in Bengal's Birbhum district

India, Sept. 17 -- A school teacher was arrested on Wednesday, a day after the decomposed body of a Class 7 student who had been missing for 20 days was recovered from Rampurhat in West Bengal's Birbh... Read More


Rivalry between TMC's Birbhum heavyweights surfaces at Abhishek Banerjee's meeting

India, Sept. 15 -- Differences between Anubrata Mondal and Kajal Sheikh, the two heavyweight leaders of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in Bengal's Birbhum district, surfaced on Monday at a meeting conve... Read More


Calcutta HC orders examination of discrepancies in 2 BJP workers' autopsy reports

India, Sept. 15 -- The Calcutta high court on Monday directed the West Bengal government to form a medical board to examine the discrepancies found in the reports of two post mortem examinations done ... Read More


Contractual worker alleges rape by manager at Bengal govt hospital

India, Sept. 15 -- An employee of a private service provider was arrested in Bengal's East Midnapore district on Monday for allegedly raping a contractual worker deployed by the company at the Bengal ... Read More


PM Modi, Rajnath Singh arrive in Kolkata for Combined Commanders' Conference

India, Sept. 14 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi and defence minister Rajnath Singh arrived in Kolkata in separate planes on Sunday evening to attend the Combined Commanders' Conference of the armed fo... Read More


Calcutta high court raps Bengal govt on film industry impasse

India, Sept. 12 -- The Calcutta high court has made strong remarks on the West Bengal government in an order on petitions a group of directors from the Bengali movie industry had filed accusing the Tr... Read More