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Sealdah court rejects RG Kar victim's parents plea to visit crime scene

India, July 9 -- A Sealdah court on Wednesday pulled up the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) not filing a charge sheet against the two men accused of tampering with evidence in the August 2024 ra... Read More


Bengal govt, WBSSC challenge HC order barring tainted teachers from job test

India, July 8 -- The West Bengal government and the state school service commission (WBSSC) on Tuesday filed a petition before a Calcutta high court division challenging the single bench order that ba... Read More


Tainted Bengal school teachers cannot sit for fresh recruitment test: Calcutta HC

India, July 7 -- The Calcutta high court on Monday ordered the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) to bar identifiable tainted recruits from the 2016 panel, whose appointments were cancelled... Read More


West Bengal: TMC workers vandalise minister Siddiqullah Chowdhury's car in Burdwan

India, July 3 -- Agitated Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers on Thursday vandalised the car of West Bengal mass education extension and library department minister Siddiqullah Chowdhury when he was visi... Read More


Calcutta high court grants relief to Padma awardee monk in alleged rape case

India, July 2 -- The Calcutta high court on Wednesday directed the West Bengal government not to take any immediate action against 2025 Padma Shri awardee monk, Swami Pradiptananda, against whom the M... Read More


Samik Bhattacharya set to become new Bengal BJP president

India, July 2 -- Samik Bhattacharya, a 61-year-old Rajya Sabha member and chief spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s West Bengal unit, emerged as the sole contender for the post of state... Read More


Bengal BJP chief moves Calcutta HC accusing police of detaining him illegally

India, July 2 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s West Bengal unit president and Union minister of state Sukanta Majumdar filed a writ petition before the Calcutta high court on Wednesday challengin... Read More


Bengal: Padma awardee monk moves Calcutta HC seeking FIR quashing in rape case

India, July 1 -- The Calcutta high court on Tuesday accepted a petition from 2025 Padma Shri awardee Swami Pradiptananda, head of the Bharat Sevashram Sangha's Beldanga ashram in Murshidabad district,... Read More


Rift in TMC out in open after leaders' remarks on rape

Kolkata, June 30 -- The tussle within the Trinamool Congress over the gang rape of a 24-year-old college student in Kolkata intensified on Sunday, as the party's Lok Sabha MP Kalyan Banerjee launched ... Read More


kolkata rape case: CCTV videos back statement of 24-year-old

Kolkata, June 30 -- The Kolkata Police has recovered security camera footage of the alleged gang rape of a 24-year-old student by three men at a government-run law college in Kolkata, officials aware ... Read More