Bengal's Jafrabad: Where 2025 communal violence will decide this year's poll resultsA Hindu-majority pocket surrounded by Muslim-dominated areas, Jafrabad still bears visible scars of the arson and killings in which Harogob...
14 Apr, 2026, 10.09 AM IST
West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026: Infighting and graft allegations roil TMC ahead of Birbhum's Bolpur, Rampurhat contestsBirbhum's Bolpur and Rampurhat constituencies are set for tight electoral battles. Factional rivalries within the ruling TMC and local deve...
06 Apr, 2026, 02.15 PM IST
Stone quarry collapse in Bengal’s Birbhum kills six labourers, injures manyA stone quarry collapsed in West Bengal's Birbhum district. The incident occurred in Bahadurpur village. At least six labourers died and se...
12 Sep, 2025, 09.44 PM IST
'Hiding like a rat': BJP leader Saumitra Khan slams TMC's Anubrata Mandal for 'involvement' in Birbhum violenceKhan said, "CBI had asked Anubrata to appear in Kolkata's Nizam Palace for questioning in the cattle smuggling case. He wrote to CBI and sa...
09 Apr, 2022, 12.59 PM IST
Democracy being 'murdered' under Mamata's rule, alleges BJPThe death of the eight people in Birbhum clearly shows that democracy is being killed in West Bengal under the rule of TMC, BJP spokesperso...
29 Mar, 2022, 05.56 PM IST
Birbhum killings: NHRC sends notice to WB govt, DGP; seeks reportThe NHRC has issued a notice to the West Bengal government via the chief secretary and the director general of police (DGP) of the state in...
24 Mar, 2022, 06.38 PM IST
Birbhum killings: Mamata reaches Bogtui village, speaks with kin of deceasedWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday reached Bogtui village, where eight people were burnt alive earlier this week, and s...
24 Mar, 2022, 02.08 PM IST
Modi describes Birbhum killings as heinous, offers help in bringing perpetrators to justiceTMC leader and senior Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee reacting to the Prime Minister's offer of help in ensuring justice for the victims ...
23 Mar, 2022, 07.29 PM IST
Calcutta High Court takes suo moto cognisance of Birbhum killings, hearing at 2 pmAdvocate Tarun Jyoti Tiwari had said on Tuesday that he and nine others of BJP Lawyers' Cell made a mention of the incident before the divi...
23 Mar, 2022, 05.27 PM IST
Action to be taken against perpetrators irrespective of their political colours: Mamata on Birbhum killingsThe CM, during a programme here, also maintained that she had to postpone her visit to the district by a day as "other political parties we...
23 Mar, 2022, 04.15 PM IST
Birbhum killings: West Bengal Governor slams CM for 'diversionary tactics', says attempts being made to shield guiltyWest Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar had on Tuesday described the death of eight people at Rampurhat as "horrific" and claimed that the st...
23 Mar, 2022, 03.27 PM IST
20 arrested for Birbhum killings, forensic team at site of incident"With nine more arrests, the number of those who have been nabbed in the case rose to 20. We are grilling them to find out if there were mo...
23 Mar, 2022, 01.01 PM IST
Two killed while making bombs in TMC leader's house in BirbhumThe blast today took place at the house of Bipad Garai, a local member of the party. Garai however managed to run away from the scene and h...
27 Feb, 2016, 05.20 PM IST
3-member BJP team to visit WB following attacks on its workersBJP Vice President Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi will led the three -member team which includes party MPs Kirti Azad and Udit Raj, a party spokesman ...
29 Oct, 2014, 04.29 PM IST
BJP central team to visit violence-hit BirbhumThree persons were killed and as many injured, and at least five houses were set on fire when Trinamool Congress and BJP supporters fought ...
28 Oct, 2014, 06.23 PM IST
- Marxists accept there’s no law and order in West Bengal
CPM polit bureau member Biman Bose admitted that “the police and administration were not acting properly in certain areas and the Nanoor in...
02 Jul, 2010, 03.04 AM IST
- CPI-M leader gunned down by Maoists
A local CPI-M leader Sridhar Das (48) was gunned down by Maoists at Tantipara village in West Bengal's Birbhum district on Tuesday morning.
22 Apr, 2008, 12.59 PM IST