According to local sources, Border Security Force (BSF) personnel allegedly attempted to push back a group of individuals trying to infiltrate into the country through the Sukhdevpur border.
A six-member team from the CID carried out an hour-long search at the Ballygunge MLA's Bhabanipur residence and questioned Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay in relation to the case, police sources said.
The Uttar Banga chapter of Vishwa Samvad Kendra in Siliguri is scheduled to hold an evening programme featuring cultural performances and a discussion.
The visit assumes significance as the Prime Minister is coming to West Bengal, after his party has come to power for the first time in the state in the recently concluded state assembly elections.
Police arrested Regina Bibi, wife of Trinamool leader Jahangir Khan, in the Falta Police Station attack case. Investigators say she played a key role in planning the attempted rescue operation.
A controversy has erupted in West Bengal after a question in an undergraduate history examination paper set by Vidyasagar University referred to Indian freedom fighters as “terrorists”.
The books have been published by Swami Gambhirananda Birth Quasquicentennial Committee.
In the wake of a raging controversy surrounding a history question paper of Vidyasagar University, where militant nationalists of India’s freedom struggle were inadvertently referred to as ‘terrorists’, the vice-chancellor of the university, Prof Dipak Kumar Kar, issued a public apology today.
In a bid to streamline the keenness among many state government officers to attend national and international meetings, conferences, workshops etc in the country and abroad, state secretariat Nabanna has given a directive to its officials.
A woman allegedly died by suicide after jumping into the Hooghly river near the jetty ghat in Diamond Harbour, South 24-Parganas, on Wednesday night, triggering panic among locals, police said.
