A total of five FIRs have been registered against Banerjee in Assam since the publication of the NRC final draft on July 30.
Fighting sex trafficking and forced labour became Police Commissioner Mahesh Bhagwat's life mission. The winner of the US State Department's 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report Heroes Award speaks to Rediff.com
A day after gory details of Sheena Bora murder case were revealed by police in court, her biological father on Tuesday came out in the open for the first time while skeletal remains purportedly of the 24-year-old unearthed in Raigad were sent to Forensic Science Laboratory in Mumbai.
The apex court said it was duty-bound by the seven-judge bench's order in the case and 'cannot override it'.
Here's a recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.
Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh terrorists have entered West Bengal to carry out subversive activities.
The child after returning home on Thursday from her school - G D Birla Centre for Education - kept on crying and complained of severe pain. Her mother spotted blood stains on her clothes, he said. The girl told her mother that the physical training teacher had taken her to the washroom but could not narrate what happened thereafter.
Jagmohan Dalmiya was re-elected unopposed at the Cricket Association of Bengal's 78th annual general meeting in Kolkata. He also retained his panel of two joint-secretaries and treasurer.
'The police is there to protect Indian citizens, but now we have cops entering the hospitals and ransacking even the ICUs.'
Two bomb blasts rocked close to Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's residence in Ballygunge area in Kolkata following a clash between two groups of a political party.
The opposition parties termed the order of the inquiry a gimmick to fool the masses and cover up the important evidences in the sting operation.
Indrani Mukerjea, the prime accused in the Sheena Bora murder case, her husband and former Star India CEO Peter Mukerjea, and others who have come under the investigators' scanner in the murky family saga on Friday faced day-long interrogation.
Former West Bengal Director General of Police Dinesh Bajpai will take on the veteran cricket administrator in the Cricket Association of Bengal's election for president.
Barrackpore: Retired army subedar arrested for spying
As we get used to a long haul of isolation to curb the spread of COVID-19, the police's new avatar in many places is a far cry from that of the high-handed enforcer of law and order.
Former president of the Calcutta Stock Exchange, Kamal Parekh, was arrested in connection with the Rs 120 crore (Rs 1.2 billion) payment crisis of the bourse.
Both Rizwanur and Priyanka had conveyed a threat to his life in a letter written on September 3 to then Deputy Commissioner (Detective Department) Ajoy Kumar.
The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the CBI to probe the mysterious death of Rizwanur Rehman and submit the report before it within two months. In an interim order, Justice Soumitra Pal observed that the CID could not hold an inquiry into the mysterious death of the computer graphics teacher under the given circumstances. Rizwanur's body was found on the railway tracks on September 21 following his marriage to Priyanka, daughter of influential industrialist Ashok Todi
'The situation is especially serious in major hotspot districts or emerging hotspots like Ahmedabad and Surat (Gujarat), Thane (Maharashtra), Hyderabad (Telangana), and Chennai (Tamil Nadu),' the MHA statement said.
The spectacles on the Gandhi bust in Kannur were broken while the Ambedkar bust had red paint splashed across it.
Shakti Kapoor was beaten up by two friends in Kolkata following an argument.
An official order said that Rao, a 1986-batch Indian Police Service officer from Odisha cadre, has been appointed Director General of Fire Services, Civil Defence and Home Guard by 'temporarily downgrading the post' to the level of additional director general.
The Border Security Force has been put on high alert along the India-Bangladesh border in Assam and Tripura following intelligence inputs of Islamic terrorists planning to infiltrate the country.
Dalmiya secured 61 of the 117 votes while Kolkata Police Commissioner Prasun Mukherjee bagged 56.
Referring to state BJP president Dilip Ghosh's allegation that its workers were provoked by the police, he said, "They had carried arms. Is it then a provocation if the police took action? Action will be taken if there is any violation of law."
In the wake of the terrorist attack on the Pathankot Air Force Base, security was on Saturday stepped up in the national capital and several states. Security has been beefed up at the airport, railway stations, bus stands and other vital installations.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has sparked off a new debate on whether freedom fighter Subhash Chandra Bose was alive or not after 1945.
Former captain Abdul Majed was hanged for his involvement in the 1975 coup in which the country's founder Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated, nearly four-and-a-half decades after the high profile massacre.
The quizmaster-turned-parliamentarian was interrogated for about two hours on some financial transactions in bank accounts related to the TMC mouthpiece 'Jago Bangla'.
The Bharatiya Janata Party leader, who travelled by road from Jharkhand to this West Bengal town to address a rally after being denied permission earlier for landing helicopter in the state, targeted the Trinamool Congress chief for opposing the Central Bureau of Investigation's attempt to quiz the Kolkata police chief in connection with the ponzi scams.
The storm is India's strongest tropical cyclone to make landfall in 20 years.
Justice Karnan told the doctors that for holding such a medical examination, guardian's consent is required.
'There is arson, loot, rape of women, traumatising children, destruction of property, homes, shops and offices by workers and elements of the ruling dispensation.' 'What is most painful is while all this was taking place there was stunning silence by the chief minister.' 'Not one tangible step was taken.'
Questioning the eight-phase assembly elections in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Friday that she suspects that the dates were announced as per the suggestions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah for better management of the BJP's poll campaign.
Students' organisations and political parties are participating in the bandh to protest the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, which seeks to grant Indian citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan if they faced religious persecution there.
Justice Karnan passed a 'suo motu judicial order in the interest of the nation to protect the general public from corruption and unrest'.
The West Bengal government declassified 64 files on freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in Kolkata on Friday.
Defying prohibitory orders, protests were held in Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and several other cities. Protesters, mostly students and activists, were detained on a large scale in national capital and other places.
As it raised a storm of protest, the proposed 'Kiss of Love' event in Bengaluru on November 30 has been denied permission by the police, saying it would lead to public display of affection and other obscene act barred under law.
The Sheena Bora murder mystery has seen more twists in a day than a television sitcom. As skeletons tumble out, a mighty media baron and his glamorous wife have become the centre of a media storm.
