A 14-year-old Bangladeshi girl was rescued from an Indo-Bangladesh border village Kolkata: A 14-year-old Bangladeshi girl was rescued from an Indo-Bangladesh border village in Swarupnagar, North 24 Parganas after she was allegedly trafficked into India by a human trafficking racket. Police said the girl was drugged with sedatives mixed in drinking water before being brought…
The arrest of a terror suspect has become the talk of the township Kolkata: The 10 residents’ associations at Renaissance Township in Burdwan, from where suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed operative Mohammad Hamim Mondal was arrested on Friday, have convened urgent meetings on Sunday to discuss tighter security measures and stricter checks on tenants moving into apartments and…
Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari handed over citizenship certificates to beneficiaries from North 24 Parganas at New Town Convention Centre on Saturday Kolkata: BJP govt in Bengal has given citizenship certificates to 5,966 persons under CAA, and pending applications will be cleared within six months, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari said on Saturday.After handing over citizenship…
West Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya (file picture) Kolkata: Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said on Saturday that despite the party’s efforts a section of party members is indulging in extortion. The state BJP chief and CM Suvendu Adhikari have both repeatedly cautioned against extortion rackets.“It will be wrong for me to say we have…
KOLKATA: The alleged Jaish-e-Mohammed operative arrested by the West Bengal STF had planned to target chief minister Suvendu Adhikari and disrupt the recent students’ protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar by disguising himself in a police uniform, a senior STF officer said on Saturday.The accused, identified as Hamim Mondal, was arrested from Purba Bardhaman district on…
Cops escort Taslima Nasrin out of Kolkata airport. Photo by Indranil Das Kolkata: The city police on Friday threw a tight security ring around Bangladesh-born writer Taslima Nasrin following her arrival in Kolkata after 19 years.Acknowledging the persistent threat perception surrounding the author, the Special Branch (SB) of Kolkata Police has completed a detailed security…
Relatives described Mondal as a simple and quiet young man. MONTESWAR: Hamim Mondal’s ancestral village in Monteswar, barely an hour’s drive from where he was arrested, learnt that the 24-year-old was a suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) operative at 10 am on Friday.The family has been in the rice trade for several generations.Speaking to reporters in Dirghanagar…
The Burdwan complex where the suspect had been living with his family The apartment in the Burdwan complex where the suspect had been living with his family The Burdwan complex where the suspect had been living with his family The apartment in the Burdwan complex where the suspect had been living with his family The…
Kolkata: Even as the ministry of housing and urban affairs (MoHUA) on Friday cited the ‘Force Majeure’ clause due to the war in Iran to grant a four-month extension to real estate projects across the country, KMC on Friday said the stop-work on high-rise projects being audited would continue, refusing any relief to developers who…
A Nature Study Park is inaugurated at IIEST Kolkata: A 4.4-acre nature study park, complete with nature trails, biodiversity zones, a butterfly garden, a meditation space, an open-air gym and an amphitheatre, was inaugurated on the campus of IIEST, Shibpur, on Friday.The project is a collaborative environmental & social responsibility (ESR) initiative, developed by Eden…
