They were picked up in Mumbai last month on suspicion of being illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and pushed into the neighbouring country. They were later brought to their native West Bengal following intervention from the state government, but they ...
25 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal School Service Commission on Thursday announced September 7 and September 14 as the dates for the teacher recruitment examinations.According to the commission, exams to recruit assistant teachers for secondary classes (9-10) will be held on September ...
25 July 2025 Indian ExpressNilufa Yasmin, a resident of Katwa’s Palita Road area in Purba Bardhaman, West Bengal, has secured the top rank in the UGC NET JRF June 2025 exam with a perfect 100 percentile.A research scholar at Burdwan University, Yasmin is ...
25 July 2025 Indian ExpressBJP leader and actor Mithun Chakraborty on Thursday hit out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, dismissing her recent claims of harassment of Bengali-speaking migrant workers in other states as “baseless” and accusing her of spreading fear for ...
25 July 2025 Indian ExpressA police complaint has been filed in Murshidabad district alleging that four youths from West Bengal were beaten up by locals in Thiruvallur in Tamil Nadu on suspicion of being Bangladeshis.According to the complaint, lodged on July 17, Sujan ...
25 July 2025 Indian ExpressAfter a series of incidents in which Metro properties were defaced in Kolkata, the authorities on Wednesday warned of serious legal actions.On Wednesday, a video of CCTV footage went viral in which a man, clad in a blue t-shirt ...
25 July 2025 Indian ExpressIn the wake of a spate of student death cases on the campus, allegedly by suicide, the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur will be launching an AI-powered emotional health monitoring tool for students as part of its new mental health ...
25 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe recent arrest of five individuals — including a woman — in connection with the murder of Patna-based gangster Chandan Mishra has cast a spotlight on the security protocol and verification processes of rental accommodations in and around Kolkata.The ...
24 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Thursday is likely to hear a petition filed by a city-based voluntary organisation, Swazon, seeking a probe into alleged “overnight disappearance of over 300 animals” from the records of Alipore Zoological Garden, the country’s ...
24 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed the Odisha government to file an affidavit on the alleged detention of Bengali-speaking workers on suspicion of being illegal Bangladesh migrants.Hearing habeas corpus petitions filed by the families of two migrant workers ...
24 July 2025 Indian ExpressAfter the success of its ‘Duare Sarkar’ and ‘Parai Samadhan’ campaigns, the TMC government in West Bengal announced ‘Amader Para, Amader Samadhan’ (Our Neighbourhood, Our Solution), aimed at resolving issues at the level of ‘paras’ or neighbourhoods from August ...
24 July 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that a family in Alipurduar district has received a citizenship notice from the Assam government and lashed out at the BJP government in the neighbouring state for “targeting” Bengali-speaking people.“Even ...
24 July 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday expressed scepticism over Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar’s resignation, and said “his health is absolutely fine”.Dhankhar resigned on the very first day of the Monsoon session of Parliament. His resignation was immediately accepted ...
24 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Wednesday asked the Advocate General of Odisha to submit an affidavit on the alleged detention of Bengali-speaking migrant workers who had travelled to the state for work.The division bench of Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and ...
24 July 2025 Indian ExpressFifty women who were being trafficked were rescued from a Jalpaiguri-Patna train and two persons have been arrested in this connection, officials said.The operation was carried out by the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and Government Railway Police (GRP). The ...
23 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe Alipore court on Tuesday wondered what was the government doing if there were at least 12 complaints, mostly of molestation, against Kolkata law college rape prime accused Monojit Mishra from 2023.The court extended the judicial custody of Monojit ...
23 July 2025 Indian ExpressVeteran Naxalite leader and one of the faces of the 1970s Naxalbari movement, Azizul Haque, passed away on Monday. He was 83.Haque, who had been suffering from ailments related to old age, was admitted to a private hospital in ...
23 July 2025 Indian ExpressA second-year student of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, died while trying to swallow medication on Monday night.Chandradeep Pawar, a second-year electrical engineering student and a resident of Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh, was taking medicine at his residence hall ...
23 July 2025 Indian ExpressWritten by Anisha GhoshThe India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast rain and thunderstorms across several parts of Bengal from July 22 to 28, with isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall predicted in some districts later this week.In several South ...
23 July 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Leader of Opposition and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari alleged that attendees at the TMC’s Martyrs’ Day rally in Kolkata were lured with “alcohol and biryani” and questioned the authenticity of the crowd.His remarks came as he addressed ...
23 July 2025 Indian ExpressBuilding her poll pitch around “Bengali ashmita (pride)”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday accused the BJP of “linguistic terrorism” and announced a “bhasha andolon (language movement)” from July 27. She alleged that people speaking in Bangla ...
22 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe arrest of a 26-year-old man from Kolkata in connection with a recent hospital murder in Patna has once again raised questions over whether West Bengal is becoming a safe haven for criminals from neighbouring states, especially Bihar.While police ...
22 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Monday was all praises for the way the Kolkata Police managed traffic on the day of the Shaheed Diwas rally being led by the Trinamool Congress (TMC), which attracted lakhs of people from different ...
22 July 2025 Indian ExpressMany schools in Kolkata declared a holiday on Monday in anticipation of the Trinamool Congress‘s Martyrs’ Day rally, which is expected to draw thousands of people.Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is expected to address the gathering at Esplanade around 1 ...
21 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe Kolkata Police have decided to implement a slew of traffic measures in the central part of the city on Monday in view of the ruling Trinamool Congress’s Shahid Diwas program.Besides, in a recent order, the Calcutta High Court ...
21 July 2025 Indian ExpressIdentified but still elusive, the police had cast a wider net to nab the assailants who shot dead a convict inside a hospital in Patna. On Saturday morning, five persons were picked up for questioning after two flats were ...
21 July 2025 Indian ExpressAN ADDITIONAL Chief Judicial Magistrate court on Saturday granted bail to the arrested accused in the IIM Calcutta rape case. The court also questioned the police about why the woman complainant’s statement had not been recorded.The court granted bail ...
21 July 2025 Indian ExpressSENIOR BJP leader Dilip Ghosh, who missed Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s Durgapur programme on Friday, said on Saturday that he met the party’s national president JP Nadda at his residence in New Delhi.Ghosh said that he had a “fruitful ...
21 July 2025 Indian ExpressLaying foundation stones for several development projects, valued at over Rs 5,400 crore, in Durgapur on Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that these projects aligned with the “Make in India, Make for the World” vision and will propel ...
20 July 2025 Indian ExpressWritten by Anisha GhoshTHE IMD has issued a yellow alert for all districts in south Bengal and an orange alert for the north Bengal districts such as Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, Kalimpong and yellow alert for Cooch Behar and North Dinajpur.According ...
20 July 2025 Indian ExpressA 21-year-old mechanical engineering student at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur in West Bengal was found hanging in his hostel room on Friday morning, with preliminary investigations suggesting death by suicide, police said.According to police, Ritam Mondal, ...
20 July 2025 Indian ExpressLaying the ground for the BJP’s campaign for next year’s Assembly elections in West Bengal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday lashed out at the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government in the state, accusing it of enabling “infiltration” and hindering ...
20 July 2025 Indian ExpressThree elephants — including a mother and her calf — were killed after being hit by a train in West Bengal’s Jhargram district early Friday while a state forest department-backed Hula party was attempting to drive the herd out ...
19 July 2025 Indian ExpressOffice and school-going commuters in South Bengal faced heavy to moderate rain in the early morning of Friday in Kolkata and adjacent districts.The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert for multiple districts across South Bengal and ...
19 July 2025 Indian ExpressOn the eve of his visit to Durgapur where he will launch several development projects worth over Rs 5,000 crore, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched an attack on Mamata Banerjee-led TMC, claiming “West Bengal is suffering due ...
19 July 2025 Indian ExpressA DigiYatra facility was inaugurated at Kolkata’s Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) Airport on Thursday, marking a significant stride in contactless travel.The service is specifically designed to streamline the experience for domestic transfer passengers.The facility was inaugurated by ...
19 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Thursday allowed the main Opposition party, the BJP, to hold a rally and a public meeting in Siliguri on July 21, coinciding with the ruling TMC’s annual mega Martyrs’ Day rally in Kolkata.The bench ...
19 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Thursday, in an oral observation, asked the Trinamool Congress (TMC) to shift the venue of the annual Martyrs’ Day rally from next year, citing inconvenience caused to people on a working weekday, and suggested ...
18 July 2025 Indian ExpressLess than a week before the deadline to apply for the 35,726 assistant teacher posts in government and state-aided schools in West Bengal, the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) has received over 5.5 lakh applications.The Calcutta High Court ...
18 July 2025 Indian ExpressOn a day when West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee led a protest march against alleged harassment of Bengali-speaking migrants in BJP-ruled states, Leader of Opposition in Assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday marched to the office of Chief Electoral ...
18 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe Union Ministry of Education on Wednesday appointed Alok Kumar Rai, the vice-chancellor of Lucknow University, as the full-time director of the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta.The IIM-Calcutta did not have a regular full-term director for nearly two years.The appointment ...
18 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe ED on Wednesday said the Asset Disposal Committee (ADC) has disbursed an additional Rs 10.5 crore to 11,883 victims or depositors of the Rose Valley Ponzi scheme.“With this latest round, the total amount disbursed so far to 72,760 ...
18 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Wednesday upheld the latest teachers’ recruitment notification in the government and aided schools of West Bengal, saying the new rules are more stringent and student centric.Dismissing a bunch of appeals filed by a group ...
17 July 2025 Indian ExpressAn 18-year-old college student died after falling unconscious on a simulated waterfall at Kolkata’s Nicco Park on Wednesday.He was rushed to a private hospital in Salt Lake, where doctors declared him dead.According to the amusement park’s authorities, Rahul arrived ...
17 July 2025 Indian ExpressOver 24 hours after they were detained by the Bangladesh Navy, 34 Indian fishermen from Kakdwip in South 24-Parganas have still not been released. The fishermen were allegedly apprehended late Monday night for crossing into Bangladeshi waters while fishing ...
17 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed the Centre, the Delhi government and the West Bengal government to file affidavits in connection with the arrest of a Bengali migrant family in the National Capital and their deportation to Bangladesh.Hearing ...
17 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court Wednesday said that it will hear the plea of the sole convict in the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital rape and murder case, Sanjoy Roy, for acquittal from the case.A division bench of ...
17 July 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the Central government and the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC), holding them responsible for the flood-like situation in parts of the state.Addressing a press conference at Nabanna, ...
16 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) has called a meeting of its academic council this week over the arrest of a second-year student in a rape case.Paramanand Mahaveer Toppannawar, 26, was arrested last Saturday for allegedly raping a young ...
16 July 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will lead a protest march in Kolkata on Wednesday over alleged harassment of Bengali-speaking people in BJP-ruled states.The march will begin at College Square around 1 pm and conclude at Dharmatala in the ...
16 July 2025 Indian ExpressIIT-Kharagpur director Suman Chakraborty on Tuesday said the institution was pushing boundaries in the areas of artificial intelligence, cyber security and cloud computing, and it has become a national leader in AI’s responsible real-world applications in health care and ...
16 July 2025 Indian ExpressTrinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Tuesday once again pointed to the alleged plight of migrant labourers from West Bengal, claiming that a group after being released from detention in Chattisgarh were forcibly put into buses and sent back ...
16 July 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said Tuesday that state government will not implement a ban on popular snacks like samosas and jalebi as suggested by some media reports and her government would not interfere with people’s food habits.In a ...
16 July 2025 Indian ExpressIndian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur director Suman Chakraborty said Tuesday that the institute’s research covers “a wide range of fields, including virtual accident monitoring, wastewater engineering, and next-generation wireless communication”.“We are pushing the boundaries in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, ...
16 July 2025 Indian ExpressTrinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Paresh Pal and Kolkata councillors Swapan Samaddar and Papiya Ghosh moved the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday, seeking anticipatory bail in the 2021 Abhijit Sarkar murder case. Sarkar, a BJP worker, was killed during the ...
16 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe nine migrant labourers detained by the Chhattisgarh Police have been set free but “shoved into buses and sent to West Bengal”, claimed Trinamool Congress (TMC) Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra Tuesday. Meanwhile, TMC Rajya Sabha MP and West ...
16 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Cabinet on Monday gave the go-ahead to a proposal to give a job each to the families of the 2023 Balasore train accident victims who hailed from the state, officials said.Thirteen of the 296 persons who ...
16 July 2025 Indian ExpressWritten by Anisha GhoshWearing a pair of shorts and a black full-sleeved shirt, a middle-aged woman with paper and pen sat on the roadside near Amila Bazar in West Bengal’s Purba Bardhaman district on Monday afternoon, speaking incoherently in ...
16 July 2025 Indian ExpressWritten by Anisha GhoshThis year, a special sparkle is all set to be added to the five-day Durga Puja festivities in Kolkata. Kumortuli artisan Indrajit Paul has adorned the eyes of one of his idols with special American diamonds.While ...
16 July 2025 Indian ExpressPolice have arrested four people in connection with the murder of TMC leader Razzak Khan, who was gunned down and hacked to death last Thursday night in Bijoyganj Bazar.The case has been registered under section 103 (1) (murder) and ...
15 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe Kolkata Police, which is probing the alleged rape of a young woman at the Joka campus hostel of the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C), is finding it difficult to move ahead with the investigation due to “non-cooperation” of ...
15 July 2025 Indian ExpressFrom access to healthcare to a slow but steady reduction in stigma, sex workers in Kolkata’s Sonagachi, which is India’s largest red-light area, say they are finally being seen and heard.Once faced with discrimination and barriers to medical care, ...
15 July 2025 Indian ExpressKolkata SSC recruitment controversy: Thousands of “untainted” teachers, who were rendered jobless after the Supreme Court invalidated their appointments over alleged irregularities in the recruitment process of the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC), were on Monday stopped from ...
15 July 2025 Indian ExpressFlagging the detention and deportation of migrant workers from West Bengal during drives against illegal Bangladeshi nationals in several states of the country, senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Sunday urged President Droupadi Murmu to intervene.In a letter ...
15 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe Trinamool Congress (TMC), led by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, has decided to intensify its protests against the alleged harassment of Bengali-speaking migrant workers in BJP-ruled states, including Odisha, Delhi, Assam, and Jharkhand.On Wednesday, Banerjee is scheduled ...
15 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Sunday said that it has arrested Anil Vailaparampil Abraham, Executive Director of Sahara Group’s Chairman Core Management (CCM) Office, and Jitendra Prasad Verma, a long-time associate and property broker of the Sahara Group, from ...
15 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta on Sunday said it is actively engaging with students and taking necessary steps to address their concerns in the wake of the alleged sexual assault of a woman on its campus.The woman was allegedly ...
14 July 2025 Indian ExpressA former Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) leader has filed a police complaint accusing the leaders of the TMC’s student outfit of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to “spread indecent, morphed images” of her.The complaint was lodged at the Sonarpur police ...
14 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe recent arrest of Monojit Mishra, the prime suspect in the Kolkata campus gangrape case, has brought to light a decade-long pattern of alleged criminal activity. Mishra, a lawyer and a contractual staff at the law college where he ...
14 July 2025 Indian ExpressAfter a woman levelled allegations on Saturday that she was raped inside a hostel on the premises of the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta, political parties pointed to the “worsening” law and order situation in West Bengal, and “lapse in ...
14 July 2025 Indian ExpressKolkata Police on Sunday constituted a nine-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the alleged rape of a young woman by a student of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta at a hostel on Joka campus.The SIT is ...
14 July 2025 Indian ExpressWritten by Shambhavi PandeyAfter days of persistent showers, Kolkata saw a brief pause in rain on Sunday morning as the intensity of the rain eased and the sun finally peeked through the clouds.The India Meteorological Department (IMD) confirmed that ...
14 July 2025 Indian ExpressWritten by Anisha GhoshIn a major discovery, researchers from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have found four new species of tiny parasitic wasps in West Bengal. These extremely small microscopic wasps belong to the genus Idris Förster and ...
13 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed that deficiencies in the implementation of the Ganga Action Plan in West Bengal be specified by the state, NMCG and CPCB by way of affidavit.The NGT, while reviewing the status of Ganga ...
13 July 2025 Indian ExpressState BJP president Samik Bhattacharya on Saturday alleged that Trinamool Congress (TMC) supporters in Khejuri area of Purba Medinipur district brutally beat and killed two BJP workers using bamboo sticks, on Friday, likening the incident to “Maoist-style violence”.Addressing a ...
13 July 2025 Indian ExpressA second-year student of the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta has been arrested after a woman alleged she was raped inside the hostel at the premier institute.The police have charged the accused under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, ...
13 July 2025 Indian ExpressA CONTROVERSY erupted after a history question paper at the state-run Vidyasagar University in Paschim Medinipur referred to freedom fighters as “terrorists,” triggering strong political reactions and prompting the institute to issue a public apology, calling it a “printing ...
13 July 2025 Indian ExpressTHE CALCUTTA High Court on Friday sought a detailed report from the Union Home Ministry regarding allegations that migrant workers from West Bengal were detained in Delhi and sent to Bangladesh.“Have workers belonging to West Bengal been detained from ...
13 July 2025 Indian ExpressA 28-YEAR-OLD woman who went missing from her home in Islampur in Uttar Dinajpur district nearly eight years ago has been traced in Bangladesh and connected with her family — thanks to efforts made by some amateur radio operators ...
13 July 2025 Indian Express“When we showed them our voter ID cards and Aadhaar cards, they said it was not enough. They wanted birth certificates and school documents. They even seized our phones and checked for phone numbers from Bangladesh.”Ajimuddin Sheikh (22), a ...
12 July 2025 Indian ExpressTrinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Thursday once again targeted the Odisha government over the detention of migrant workers from West Bengal, alleging that two of them were still being held only because their phones had Bangladeshi contact numbers.More ...
12 July 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister on Thursday accused the BJP government in Delhi of targeting Bengali migrant workers in a Vasant Kunj colony and treating them as infiltrators in their own country.Accusing the BJP of “exporting their anti-Bengal agenda to ...
12 July 2025 Indian ExpressTWO LOCAL Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders were murdered within a span of 24 hours in two West Bengal districts, police said on Friday.TMC leader Rezzak Khan, 38, was shot multiple times and then hacked to death in South 24 ...
12 July 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday stressed the importance of shifting focus from “negativity” and “narratives” to creativity and self-reliance, highlighting that negativity overshadows progress and achievements. “Many things have happened in Bengal. You probably don’t know ...
12 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the chief secretary of West Bengal to coordinate with the Odisha government over the detention of over 400 people, mostly from West Bengal, on suspicion of being illegal Bangladesh migrants.Hearing two habeas ...
11 July 2025 Indian ExpressA special POCSO court in Jalpaiguri has sentenced three men to death for the rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl in August 2020.Rahaman Ali, Jamirul Haque, and Tamirul Haque — all aged between 30 and 35 years — ...
11 July 2025 Indian ExpressA Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday dismissed the petitions of the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) and the state government, challenging the single bench order of debarring “tainted” candidates from appearing in the fresh ...
11 July 2025 Indian ExpressAccusing the TMC government of “political and police terror” against the Koch and Rajbanshis communities in West Bengal, Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) chief Jibon Singh has asked people to rise against ‘Kolkata Sarkar’.The TMC linked the KLO chief’s statement ...
11 July 2025 Indian ExpressTunnelling work on Kolkata Metro’s Purple Line from Kidderpore to Victoria began Thursday, with the launch of a Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) named ‘Durga’.Metro Railway officials said the machine will tunnel up to Victoria in the first phase, covering ...
11 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal government submitted a sealed report on the progress of the investigation into the rape of a 24-year-old student at a law college in South Kolkata to the Calcutta High Court on Thursday.The state’s counsel also presented ...
11 July 2025 Indian ExpressWritten by Shambhavi PandeyWest Bengal continued to witness cloudy skies and intermittent rainfall on Thursday, as monsoon remained active across the state.In Kolkata, the weather on Thursday stayed mostly overcast through the day, with brief spells of light rain ...
11 July 2025 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday appealed to the Centre to take immediate steps to ensure the safety and security of Jammu and Kashmir, stating that such measures were crucial for reviving tourism in the region.Banerjee met ...
11 July 2025 Indian ExpressJammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah appealed to potential tourists from West Bengal to visit Kashmir, stating that security would be given. Speaking at a Travel and Tourism fair inauguration programme in Kolkata on Thursday, he said, “I ...
11 July 2025 Indian ExpressA CBI team on Wednesday visited the residences of three BJP workers who were killed allegedly in 2019 post-poll violence in Sandeshkhali area of West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, an officer said. The CBI on Saturday took over ...
11 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe Odisha police’s detention of 444 migrant workers in Jharsuguda district on suspicion of being Bangladeshi nationals has triggered backlash from Trinamoool Congress leaders and families of the detained.The migrants — reportedly from West Bengal districts including Nadia, Murshidabad, ...
10 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe Calcutta High Court is likely to hear a petition filed by Sanjay Roy seeking acquittal in the RG Kar rape-murder case.In January this year, a trial court in Sealdah sentenced Roy to life imprisonment “until his last breath” ...
10 July 2025 Indian ExpressChief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday wrote a letter to NITI Aayog vice chairman Suman Bery, expressing her strong disapproval over West Bengal being mislabelled as Bihar in their official summary report.The chief minister condemned the error and sought ...
10 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) on Wednesday appealed in the Calcutta High Court arguing that candidates identified as ineligible have already faced punishment and if they are barred from participating in the application process, it would cause ...
10 July 2025 Indian ExpressA court in Alipore in Kolkata on Tuesday sent all the four men, arrested in connection with the alleged rape of a 24-year-old student at a law college, to judicial custody till July 22.The court rejected the bail plea ...
10 July 2025 Indian ExpressThe relatives of two migrant families from Birbhum district, detained by Delhi police and allegedly pushed into Bangladesh, on Tuesday filed a habeas corpus writ petition with the Calcutta High Court.The plea, filed on behalf of the missing families, ...
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