West Bengal Polls: In Murshidabad's Beldanga, gamochas weave livelihoods amid election noiseBeldanga, Murshidabad, famous for its handwoven towels, faces religious polarization. Past incidents of violence and NIA probes have shifte...
12 Apr, 2026, 11.59 PM IST
SC: On what basis did NIA invoke UAPA in Beldanga violence?The Supreme Court questioned the National Investigation Agency's use of the UAPA law in a West Bengal violence case. The court noted the NI...
11 Feb, 2026, 11.18 PM IST
SC asks Calcutta HC to weigh NIA probe in Beldanga violenceThe Supreme Court has asked the Calcutta High Court to review the need for a National Investigation Agency probe into the Beldanga violence...
11 Feb, 2026, 12.55 PM IST
Bengal govt transfers 22 officers in IPS reshuffleThe West Bengal government has made significant changes in its IPS cadre. Twenty-two officers have been transferred and given new responsib...
01 Feb, 2026, 09.19 AM IST
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee creating situation to stop SIR process, says BJP's Locket Chatterjee on Murshidabad violenceBJP leader Locket Chatterjee on Sunday slammed the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, accusing her of creating situations to stop ...
18 Jan, 2026, 10.08 AM IST
Murshidabad sees fresh unrest with highway, rail traffic blocked over migrant worker assaultProtests erupted again in Murshidabad, West Bengal on Saturday. Locals blocked National Highway-12 and railway tracks at Beldanga. This fol...
17 Jan, 2026, 01.43 PM IST
Conspiracies hatched to disrupt event linked to 'Babri Masjid' construction in Bengal: Humayun KabirThe proposed mosque, which Kabir has repeatedly described as being "modelled on the Babri Masjid", has stirred political unease in a distri...
06 Dec, 2025, 01.54 PM IST
Calcutta HC refuses to halt foundation ceremony for Babri-Style mosque in MurshidabadThe Calcutta High Court declined to halt the construction of a mosque in Murshidabad, modeled after the Babri Masjid, ahead of its foundati...
05 Dec, 2025, 05.19 PM IST
Raj Bhavan urges ECI to act against CEO officials for 'leaking' list of goons to political leadersThe Raj Bhavan in Kolkata has urged the Election Commission of India to identify and take strict action against officials in the office of ...
20 Apr, 2024, 02.33 PM IST
Bengal SEC orders repoll in over 690 booths amid protests and continued sporadic violenceThe West Bengal State Election Commission announced that repolling will be held on Monday in all booths where voting for the rural election...
09 Jul, 2023, 10.58 PM IST
Protests over West Bengal panchayat polls turn violentIn the district's Harishchandrapur area, state minister Tajmul Hossain's car was vandalised in Basta village by some miscreants around 10 p...
09 Jul, 2023, 01.59 PM IST
Prophet remarks row: After Howrah, internet services suspended in parts of MurshidabadInternet services have been suspended in entire Howrah district till June 13 and Section 144 of CrPC has been imposed in several areas such...
13 Jun, 2022, 12.07 PM IST
Trinamool Congress wins majority in 102 civic bodies in West BengalThe BJP suffered a jolt in Darjeeling, Alipurduar and other previous strongholds. It performed badly in state president Sukanta Majumdar's ...
03 Mar, 2022, 12.43 AM IST
21 held for vandalising rly property in anti-CAA stir; damages to be recovered from them: Railway Protection ForceOfficials said till now, the Government Railway Police (GRP) has registered 27 cases, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) 54 cases and the l...
15 Jan, 2020, 09.06 PM IST
Assam tense; protests against CAA In other statesBeldanga railway complex in in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district set ablaze by protestors; 5 CMs say will not implement Act; protests are ...
14 Dec, 2019, 09.02 AM IST
Uneasy calm in northeast, anti-citizenship law protests singe BengalCurfew was relaxed in Assam's Dibrugarh and Meghalaya capital Shillong, but the ripple effect of anger over the hugely divisive law was fel...
13 Dec, 2019, 10.53 PM IST
4 killed in West Bengal panchayat poll violence, 41% votes polled till 1 pmThe four were killed in separate incidents of violence in North 24 Parganas, Nadia, South 24 Parganas and Murshidabad districts.
14 May, 2018, 03.43 PM IST