West Bengal

According to NCRB, its IPC crime rate declined to 92.6 in 2021 compared with 109.9 the previous year. However, experts expressed apprehension over Kolkata's dwindling crime numbers in the report.

Two BSF personnel have been arrested over the rape of a woman who was allegedly trying to illegally enter Bangladesh from India, a senior official of the paramilitary organisation said on Saturday.

Hemant Soren's government in Jharkhand faces the threat of the Chief Minister being disqualified from the assembly following a recommendation by the Election Commission. A few insiders from the Congress said that the MLAs may be moved to a resort in a 'friendly state' such as West Bengal, Bihar or Chhattisgarh.

The Institute of Vedic Cosmology, which will research and discuss Vedic accounts of the universe, will be housed in the Vedic Planetarium. It will also take you on a tour of various aspects of cosmic creation.

According to reports, the judge, Rajesh Chakraborty, alleged that he received the threat via a letter from one Bappa Chatterjee stating that if Mondal was not released on bail, his family would be implicated in an NDPS (Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act) case in grave allegations of commercial quantity.

The weather office said that twelve districts including Indore, Gwalior, Dhar and Khargone, will receive moderate rainfall. Over the past few days, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal and Chhattisgarh have received heavy rainfall due to a deep depression over the Bay of Bengal, which has now weakened into a depression.

On Janmashtami, Hasina met with Hindu community leaders and urged believers of other faiths not to consider themselves minorities, saying that in Bangladesh, a Muslim-majority country, everyone, regardless of religion, will have equal rights.

The two suspects have been identified as 37-year-old Habibullah Habib hailing from Dakshin Dinajpur, and 32-year-old Hasan from Hooghly. The police claim that the two suspects were part of a larger module of the Al Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent terror outfit.

A video of a Railway Protection Force (RPF) officer saving an elderly woman and her son who tripped while boarding a train at West Bengal's Bankura railway station has gone viral, with netizens praising the officer for her prompt response.

Babul Supriyo, Tapas Ray, Partha Bhowmick, Snehasis Chakraborty, and Udayan Guha are the names being floated for cabinet positions.