Sixteen people have died after an under-construction godown shed collapsed in Kolkata's Taratala area. Police said six people have been arrested while the Crime Branch investigates the incident.
An investigative team took Palash Chakraborty, a resident of Radharani Colony in Sahaganj-Keota, Chinsurah, away for questioning.
People of all ages — men and women alike — are falling prey to these fraudsters.
Debasish Dhar said that several bigwigs sitting at the top echelons of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation as well as those associated with the Trinamool Congress (TMC) may be in "danger".
West Bengal Sports Minister Indranil Khan has congratulated the Asansol-based shooter for bringing laurels to both the state and the nation.
Hundreds of people staged a dharna (demonstration) in Kurseong since morning, protesting the death of a 15-year-old girl, who was hit by a toy train.
Union minister of state for education Sukanta Majumdar today said that he would urge Union home minister Amit Shah to order an NIA investigation into the gas cylinder and firecracker blast in Dholahat, Patharpratima, which killed eight members of a family.
An incident in Raghunathpur, under Ghatal’s Block 1, has triggered outrage after Hindu monk Hiranmoy Goswami Maharaj was brutally assaulted on Monday evening.
The state government has ordered a full-fledged inquiry into the Patharpratima cracker factory blast and also sought a report from the South 24-Parganas district magistrate in which eight people, including children were killed.
The Air Traffic Controllers (ATCOs) of Kolkata airport, under the aegis of ATC Guild (I) ER, paid tribute to their counterparts from Naypyidaw ATC Control Tower, Myanmar, who tragically lost their lives during a recent earthquake in Myanmar’s new capital.
