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New Delhi, April 9 – In a major crackdown on organized crime, the Delhi Police has busted a human trafficking and immoral prostitution racket operating in the S.N. Marg area of Central Delhi, rescuing eight girls, including a minor, and seizing cash, foreign currency, drugs, and liquor from the...

New Delhi, April 9 As Assam voted on Thursday, and West Bengal will on April 23 and 29, one contentious issue that dominates all is that of infiltration – especially of Bengali-speaking Muslim migrants – from Bangladesh.Issues of identity, migration, and language in West Bengal and Assam are...

Kolkata, April 9 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday responded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claim that her government had failed to achieve self-sufficiency in fish production, accusing him of misrepresenting facts.Addressing a public rally in Agarpara in North 24...

Kolkata, April 9 Union minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday alleged that the land in Singur, where the Tata Nano factory project was abandoned, stands as a "symbol of failure" of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, claiming that farmers feel "cheated" years after the anti-land...

Kolkata/New Delhi, April 9 Enforcement Directorate officials said on Thursday that the agency is investigating alleged financial links between a Kolkata-based real estate company and some politicians and officials of the West Bengal government as part of a money laundering probe.Certain...

Suri, Apr 9 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched a fierce attack on the ruling TMC, accusing it of lawlessness and unleashing "absolute jungle raj" by referring to the 2022 Bagtui massacre, in which around 10 women and children were burned alive in the Birbhum district.Addressing...

Kolkata, April 9 – The National Investigation Agency has applied to the court for the custody of the 47 accused arrested in the Kaliachak incident, an official of the central investigation agency said.About 12 First Information Reports have already been filed in this incident. Incidentally...

Kolkata, April 9. Officials of the Enforcement Directorate are trying to establish links between politically influential individuals from West Bengal in the illegal land-grabbing-related money laundering case involving Merlin Projects Limited, promoted by Sushil Mohta and Saket Mohta.Already...

Kolkata, April 9 – A division bench of the Calcutta High Court granted fresh permission to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to further investigate Sanjay Roy, the sole convict in the R.G. Kar rape and murder case, as part of the CBI's ongoing investigation into the larger conspiracy...

Malda (WB), April 9 BJP national president Nitin Nabin stated on Thursday that West Bengal has fallen behind in sports and other cultural activities, in which it used to be a leader in the country, since Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is more interested in "Khela Hobe" (political games).He...

New Delhi, April 9 The Delhi Police rescued eight women, including a minor, after it busted an alleged human trafficking and prostitution racket operating in central Delhi's Sadanand Marg area, an official said on Thursday.A raid was conducted on the night of April 8 following specific...

Kolkata, April 9 – West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is a "factory of outsiders" which has no place in the poll-bound state.Addressing an election rally in Panihati of North 24 Parganas district, Chief Minister Banerjee criticized...

New Delhi, April 9 India still has the largest number of poor people in the world, and four out of five Indians earn less than ₹171 per day, Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha Leader Derek O'Brien said on Thursday, as he shared a "fact-check" on claims made in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech...

Asansol (WB), April 9 Assuring the abolition of “the culture of extortion and the TMC’s syndicate rule” in West Bengal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday alleged that the mafia-run system, encompassing illegal coal and sand extraction, has gripped the state’s people.Addressing a rally...

Kolkata, April 9 – Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated on Thursday that if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) comes to power in West Bengal after the upcoming state assembly elections next month, there will be a special investigation to identify those who had been facilitating illegal immigrants...

Raiganj (WB), April 9 BJP national president Nitin Nabin stated on Thursday that the names of places that are contrary to West Bengal's culture and ethos will be changed if the BJP forms the government in the state.Asserting that infiltration from Bangladesh is endangering the security of...

Kolkata, April 9 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday responded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claim that her government had failed to achieve self-sufficiency in fish production, accusing him of misrepresenting facts.Addressing a public rally in Agarpara in North 24...

Panihati (West Bengal), April 9 – BJP leader Smriti Irani accompanied Ratna Debnath, the mother of the victim of the RG Kar rape-murder, as she filed her nomination as a candidate for the Bharatiya Janata Party in Panihati, West Bengal.During the event, Irani launched a strong attack on the...

Mumbai, April 9 Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said on Thursday that the opposition had an opportunity to get its demand for the registration of an FIR in the Ajit Pawar plane crash fulfilled in exchange for the withdrawal of the Congress candidate from the Baramati assembly bypoll.He said...

Suri, April 9 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday attacked the ruling Trinamool Congress over alleged lawlessness and accused the ruling party of encouraging infiltration and unleashing "rampant jungle rule".Addressing an election rally here in the Birbhum district, he alleged that the...