Dhaka | 5 days ago
Indian boy, grandparents freed from Bangladesh jail
Dhaka/New Delhi, April 29 - In a gesture of goodwill, the Bangladesh authorities Sunday released a five-year-old Indian boy, Ariful Sheikh, who spent nearly a year in a Bangladesh jail along with his grandparents after they crossed the border to meet their ailing relatives.The boy was reunited with his parents after the Border Guard Bangladesh handed him along with his grandparents to the BSF at t ... read more

Dhaka | 9 days ago
Indian boy of five languishes in Bangladesh jail
Dhaka, April 25 - A five-year-old Indian boy and his grandparents are lodged in a Bangladesh jail for a year since the process for their confirmation as Indian nationals has taken up a lot of time, a media report said Wednesday.The boy, Ariful Haq Seikh, his grandfather Hasim Uddin Seikh, 55, and grandmother Maforza Khatun, 50, are languishing in Kushtia jail for entering Bangladesh without vali ... read more

Kolkata | 17 days ago
Bengal schoolboy brings pistol to shoot principal
Kolkata, April 17 - A high school student in West Bengal's Murshidabad district was caught with a gun and bullets which he had brought purportedly to kill the principal who had earlier scolded him.The student studying in Gangadas Vidyapith in Domkal, some 200 km away from Kolkata, took out a home-made pistol from his bag and pointed at the principal who had scolded him a day earlier for bringing a ... read more

Kolkata | 1 month ago
Left walks out over newspaper ban, to meet Bengal governor
Kolkata, March 29 - The opposition Left Front staged a walkout from the West Bengal assembly for the third consecutive day Thursday after its adjournment motion on the newspaper ban issue was disallowed.Our move for adjournment motion against the government order banning mass circulating dailies from state libraries was disallowed. We are not being given an opportunity to discuss the order, Leader ... read more

Kolkata | 2 months ago
Farakka barrage to get new sluice gates: Bansal
Kolkata, March 3 - Stating that the existing sluice gates of the Farakka Barrage were too old to function, Union Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal Saturday said they will be replaced with new ones in the next five years.The existing sluice gates of Farakka Barrage are too old to function properly. New gates will be installed within the next five years, Bansal told reporters after inspect ... read more

2 months ago
Drugs worth Rs.8 crore seized, two held in Bengal
Murshidabad -, Feb 7 - Two people were arrested and drugs worth Rs.8 crore were seized from West Bengal's Murshidabad district Tuesday following questioning of two people earlier taken into custody from a heroin making unit, police said.'After interrogating the two persons arrested Sunday, we got information about six kg of contraband hidden in a building in Lalgola. The drugs have been seized and ... read more

2 months ago
Irritated by wailing, father kills baby girl
Murshidabad -, Feb 6 - Enraged by the continuous bawling of his infant daughter, a man allegedly flung the two-month-old baby down a drain resulting in her death in West Bengal's Murshidabad district, police said Monday.'Mujibur Sheikh, a mason, was at his home and got irritated by the continuous crying of his baby. He asked the mother to calm the baby, but she failed. Enraged, he threw the baby i ... read more

New Delhi | 3 months ago
Troopers who thrashed Bangladeshi will be punished: Chidambaram
New Delhi, Jan 31 - Home Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday described as 'unfortunate, condemnable and rare' the incident involving some Border Security Force - personnel beating up a Bangladesh national, adding that the guilty will be punished.Talking to mediapersons here, Chidambaram said the BSF personnel found to be prima facie involved in the incident have been suspended. 'Anyone found guilty wi ... read more

New Delhi | 3 months ago
BSF troopers suspended for torture, inquiry on
New Delhi, Jan 19 - In the wake of a video showing a man being stripped and beaten along the India-Bangladesh border, the government Thursday said the Border Security Force - has suspended all eight troopers involved and ordered a probe into the incident.BSF has taken prompt action to suspend BSF jawans involved in the incident and full investigations have been ordered into the matter, Syed Akbaru ... read more

Kolkata | 3 months ago
Mamata a dictator, says angry Congress minister
Kolkata, Jan 17 - Ties between West Bengal's ruling alliance partners Trinamool Congress and Congress worsened Tuesday with a Congress minister launching a no-holds-barred attack on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, calling her a dictator and questioning her performance in the government.Angry over Banerjee clipping his wings by taking away two departments Monday during a ministerial reshuffle, Cong ... read more