The West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBCPCR) has issued a show-cause notice to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Malviya for allegedly revealing the identity of a deceased minor girl from Canning in South 24-Parganas district.
A five-day workshop on filmmaking using smartphones was inaugurated on 17 June at Jyotirindranath Sabhagriha in Chandannagar.
West Bengal Police filed a criminal case against a person for posting the photograph of a minor girl, flouting the Supreme Court guidelines, and trying to foment communal tension.
The city police have come out strongly against malicious comments and news being circulated about two incidents, which happened recently. They have issued official clarifications on the twin incidents, putting the record straight for the public.
Villages are submerged, rivers are raging, and entire communities are cut off — a deepening flood crisis is sweeping across West Midnapore and Jhargram districts as relentless monsoon rains continue to lash southern West Bengal. The disaster, unfolding with alarming speed, has drowned homes, snapped transport lifelines, and left thousands stranded in knee to waist-deep water.
A single-judge Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday put an interim stay restraining the state government from making payments under a scheme for providing stipends to the non-teaching staff who lost jobs following a Supreme Court order in April.
The ruling Trinamul Congress slammed the opposition parties in the state while reacting to the Calcutta High Court (HC) judgment on the state government’s announcement for financial assistance to the jobless non-teaching Group C and D employees in schools.
In a major stride towards improving cross-border connectivity with Nepal, the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) is fast-tracking the completion of the Araria-Galgalia New Broad Gauge (BG) Line—a transformative 110.75 km railway corridor poised to redefine regional transportation and trade dynamics.
India just witnessed its worst aviation disaster in recent times. Shortly after takeoff, Air India Flight 171 crashed into the hostel block of a medical college in the Meghani Nagar neighbourhood of Ahmedabad in Gujarat on June 12.
The United States now stands at yet another crossroads in its decades-long entanglement with Iran ~ a familiar stage where threats, deadlines, and diplomatic signals intermingle to create uncertainty both in Washington and across West Asia.
