Kolkata, March 20 (IANS) The Kolkata Police recovered a large amount of cash from the boot of a vehicle at New Town in the northern outskirts of Kolkata on Friday.As per the instructions of the new Commissioner of Kolkata Police, security arrangements have been tightened amid the Assembly elections, and “naka” checking arrangements at important junctions in and around the city, which are under the jurisdiction of the city police.A senior city police official said that in the morning, a vehic…
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Kolkata, March 19 (IANS) Amid the crucial two-phase Assembly elections in West Bengal next month, huge amounts of cash have been recovered by the state police in two locations in the state during the last 12 hours, said the police on Thursday.One of the two locations is Baruipur in the South 24 Parganas district in South Bengal, and the other is the tribal-dominated Alipurduar district.Sensing use of illegal cash in the forthcoming polls to allure voters, the Election Commission of India (ECI) h…
Kolkata, Feb 21 (IANS) The bodies of 18 victims of the Anandapur warehouse fire on the southern outskirts of Kolkata have been identified through DNA mapping and handed over to their families from the Katapukur morgue on Saturday. Initially, it was believed that the 18 bodies handed over to the families were among the 27 persons reported missing, which had led to the assumption that the death toll had risen to 45. However, official sources later clarified that the death toll remains at 27. The 1…
Kolkata, Feb 21 (IANS) The bodies of 18 victims of the Anandapur warehouse fire on the southern outskirts of Kolkata have been identified through DNA mapping and handed over to their families on Saturday. With this, the official death toll in the tragedy has risen to 45, while nine persons are still reported missing.Police sources said the identification was confirmed after matching DNA samples of the remains with those provided by the victims’ family members. Among the 18 deceased, 16 were fr…
Kolkata, Feb 12 (IANS) BJP IT Cell Chief and the party’s central observer for West Bengal, Amit Malviya, on Thursday criticised the Mamata Banerjee-led government after a mother and daughter were allegedly assaulted by a shopkeeper and his son in Baruipur in South 24 Parganas district.According to the allegations, the women were reportedly beaten up following a dispute at a local shop. Malviya shared a video clip on his X handle in which the women narrated their version of the incident and terme…