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KOLKATA: Several hundred Bangladeshi nationals – men, women and children – were intercepted by BSF at Hakimpur check post near Swarupnagar, in North 24 Parganas, on Monday morning. They were allegedly attempting to cross the border to return home amid growing fears linked to the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls.Personnel of BSF’s 143rd Battalion detected…
KOLKATA: Kolkata-based industrialist Pawan Ruia, once known as the “turnaround tycoon” who would buy sick companies in a bid to make them profitable, has been named along with his kin in a cyber fraud case involving 148 shell companies that were allegedly used to park Rs 317 crore in illegal proceeds of online crime. Bengal…
KOLKATA: In a rare political and social gesture, Bengal’s governing TMC Monday publicly felicitated two women from Sundarbans who recently tied the knot – perhaps marking the first time a major political party in India has publicly celebrated a same-sex marriage. The felicitation of Riya Sardar, 21, and Rakhi Naskar, 20, was attended by TMC…
Coins pour out of piggy bank, enough for chaiwallah to buy Rs 1-lakh scooter WEST MIDNAPORE: A humble tea seller from rural Bengal left many amazed with his act of patience, perseverance and love.Bachchu Choudhury, a resident of Maula village in West Midnapore’s Chandrakona block I, turned heads when he walked into a two-wheeler showroom…
Vivek Agnihotri’s ‘The Bengal Files’, a film exploring the 1946 Great Calcutta Killings and its impact on India’s partition, is set for its digital premiere on Zee5 from November 21, 2025. Despite a reported Rs 35 crore budget, the movie garnered approximately Rs 16.79 crore at the box office. This release marks the latest installment…
TARAKESWAR: A four-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped in her sleep, raped and dumped in a locality in Tarakeswar in Bengal’s Hooghly district Saturday. Police arrested one of her close relatives, reports Falguni Banerjee. The child lived with her grandparents. Hours after she went missing, locals allegedly found her gravely injured, bleeding profusely, and crying for…
SERAMPORE: A 27-year-old homemaker in Bengal’s Hooghly district consumed pesticide along with her six-year-old daughter in a suspected suicide attempt amid claims she did so as she was not given SIR forms and feared being struck off electoral rolls. Asha Soren was married eight years ago but had been staying with her parents in Kananadi…
When the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education told every government and aided school to open assembly with the state anthem Banglar Mati, Banglar Jal, the Hills read a larger message: Uniform ritual, uniform identity. The Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) pushed back, saying the order won’t apply to Darjeeling schools. In a letter to the…
KOLKATA: Richa Ghosh is ready to wear a new cap. The World Cup-winning cricketer was appointed Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) in the state police by the Bengal government on Saturday. Later in the evening, a glittering one-hour felicitation ceremony was organised for Richa by the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) at the iconic Eden…
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee KOLKATA: West Bengal government on Thursday made it mandatory for all government and govt-aided schools to sing the state song, ‘Banglar Mati, Banglar Jal’, at morning assemblies. A notification, issued by the state secondary education board to heads of all upper primary and secondary schools, asked them to “take necessary…
