Kolkata : A group of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) troopers on Friday forcibly took away a murder accused SSB officer from the West Bengal Police in South 24 Parganas district but later handed him back to police following intervention by top officials. The incident took place on Friday morning when SSB commandant Deepak Kumar Singh, […]
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Another JMB terrorist nabbed in Bengal in Bodh Gaya blast case
Kolkata : Kolkata Police’s Special Task Force (STF) on Friday arrested a member of Islamist terrorist outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from West Bengal’s Murshidabad district in connection with the bomb blast case in Bihar’s Bodh Gaya on January 19, a senior officer said. Police have already arrested three more JMB suspects from various parts of […]
SSB troopers snatch away murder accused office from Bengal Police
Kolkata : A group of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) jawans on Friday forcibly took away a murder accused SSB commandant from the West Bengal police in South 24 Pargana district but later handed him back to police following intervention by top officials. The incident took place on Friday morning when the accused SSB commandant Deepak […]
BJP’s ‘Acche Din’ means snatching people’s money, defrauding banks : Mamata
Kolkata : Slamming the reduction in the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) interest rate, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamasta Banerjee on Thursday accused the BJP-led Central government of snatching away people’s money and defrauding banks in the name of ‘Acche Din’ (good days) . “BJP’s ‘acche Din’ means snatching away people’s money, extorting money from the […]
$30,000 seized by BSF in Bengal
Kolkata : Border Security Force personnel on Thursday seized foreign currency worth $30,000 from West Bengal’s Krishnanagar sector but failed to arrest the smuggler, a BSF official said. Acting on a tip off about smuggling of foreign currency in the area, BSF troopers from Vijaypur outpost laid an ambush along the India-Bangladesh border and challenged […]
Six rescued from sex racketeers in Bengal, 12 held
Kolkata : The West Bengal CID has rescued four women and two minor girls from a sex racket in the city and arrested 12 racketeers, a CID official said on Thursday. He said the victims were brought to a hotel in north Kolkata’s Dumdum area for commercial sex. “A Crime Investigation Department team raided hotel […]
Woman breaches security cordon, gets onto Mamata’s dais
Kolkata : A woman bypassed all security arrangements and jumped onto the dais during West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s public speech in North Dinajpur district on Thursday. The woman, a local resident, promptly threw herself at Banerjee’s feet much to the latter’s surprise, before immediately being dragged away by the security personnel present on […]
Elephant tusk seized in Bengal’s Siliguri, two arrested
Kolkata : Three pieces of an elephant tusk were seized in West Bengal’s Siliguri by DRI officials and two persons arrested, an official said on Monday. The elephant tusk was carried from Assam to Siliguri for smuggling out to Nepal, said the official of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI). “Based on specific intelligence input that […]
BJP releases pictures of Bengal Minister with Choksi
Kolkata : Amid controversy over a photograph in which Nirav Modi, the main accused in Rs 11,300-crore bank fraud case, is seen standing with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the West Bengal BJP has released photographs of state Finance Minister Amit Mitra with Mehul Choksi, who is on the run in the Punjab National Bank (PNB) […]
Another Bengal Police officer arrested in Daspur extortion case
Kolkata : West Bengal CID on Friday arrested one more state police officer in relation with the extortion case in West Midnapore district’s Daspur taking the tally of total arrests to five, a senior CID official said. The CID sleuths have previously arrested three police officers including an Inspector and a two Sub-Inspectors in this […]