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Special Task Force ( STF ) on Tuesday conducted a special raid and seized arms and ammunition in Kolkata's Uttar Dinajpur district, said the officials on Wednesday. Further investigation into the matter is underway.
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Ahead of Panchayat polls, West Bengal Chief Minister on Monday (Jul 3) hit out at the BJP saying that its 'Double-Engine' government concept has derailed as people have become aware of their lies.
Days after the Calcutta HC order to requisition central forces for deployment in panchayat elections to the West Bengal State Election Commission, Central Forces held a route march in Bolpur.
Union Minister for Culture and Tourism G Kishan Reddy on Tuesday (May 9) informed that the Shantiniketan in West Bengal's Birbhum district has been recommended for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage list
Amit Shah came down heavily on Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal govt & urged the public to give 35 seats out of 42 to BJP in state in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections
NIA has arrested two suppliers of explosives and Gelatin sticks in the West Bengal detonator seizure case. Recently, the news was brought up again, in context of the Beirut blast of 2020 and the damage made by Ammonium Nitrate.
West Bengal Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari slammed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for giving compensation to the kin of the victims of Bogtui carnage from mid-day meal funds.
Days ahead of chicken appearing in the mid day meal of West Bengal school students, children in a Birbhum consumed lentils from a pan that also cooked a small snake with it.
CBI has arrested one more accused during an ongoing investigation of a case, related to the death of 10 people as their houses were set on fire at Bogtui village in Birbhum, earlier this year.
The Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI ) on Friday (Sept 16) raided arrested Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Anubrata Mandal's house and interrogated his daughter, Sukanya Mandal. The CBI had arrested the TMC leader in August over West Bengal cattle smuggling case.
Regarding the Birbhum killing case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested seven more accused during an ongoing investigation of a case related to the death of 10 persons as their houses were set on fire at Bogtui village in West Bengal's Birbhum, earlier this year.
Trinamool Congress' Birbhum District President Anubrata Mondal who was arrested in a 2020 cattle smuggling case last week, was taken for a medical check-up, said the officials on Saturday (Aug 20). He will be later produced in court today (Aug 20).
These are the first arrests in the case after the CBI took over the case on Mar 21 and registered an FIR in the matter, according to the order of the Calcutta High Court. The arrests were based on technical evidence .
Crude bombs were recovered on Apr 3, from a spot proximate to one of the accused in the killing of TMC leader Bhadu Sheikh at Bogtui village in Rampurhat area of Birbhum district.
These comments come in the backdrop of the Birbhum massacre in which nine people were burnt alive following the killing of a local Trinamool Congress leader.
BJP MP Roopa Ganguly today broke down in the Rajya Sabha while speaking about the violence in Bengal's Birbhum district where eight people were burnt to death. She said the state is "no more liveable" and demanded President's rule. "We demand President's rule in West Bengal. Mass killings are happening there, people are fleeing the place... the state is no longer liveable," news agency ANI quoted her saying.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs from West Bengal on Wednesday staged a demonstration in the Parliament premises over the Birbhum incident where eight charred bodies were found after their houses were set on fire.
