Kolkata, March 25 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has initiated a probe into a bomb blast incident within the jurisdiction of the Bijayganj Bazar Police Station under the Bhangar division of Kolkata Police, a central agency insider said on Wednesday. The incident involved a series of consecutive explosions that occurred while crude bombs were being assembled in the South Bamunia village of Bhangar in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district. A person identified as Moshiur Qazi was…
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Kolkata, March 23 (IANS) The All India Secular Front (AISF) on Monday announced the names of its candidates for 23 assembly constituencies for the two‑phase West Bengal Assembly elections scheduled to be held next month.Although AISF initially had indicated that it would announce candidates for all the 33 assembly constituencies it is fighting, it later declared the names of the candidates for only 23 constituencies.“This time the party is contesting the polls with a seat-sharing arrangement…
Kolkata, March 23 (IANS) Congress and All India Secular Front (AISF) are likely to publish their respective candidate lists on Monday.The Congress party is likely to publish its first list of 100 candidates for the 294-seat West Bengal Assembly. The AISF, which will have a seat-sharing arrangement with the CPI(M)-led Left Front, is expected to publish its candidates for all 33 seats which it will contest.Congress has, this time, decided to sever its seat-sharing arrangement with the Left Front, …
Kolkata, March 9 (IANS) The Kolkata Police Commissioner recently directed the anti-rowdy officers of every police station in the city to submit a ‘rough register’ (a special diary or ledger) to their respective Deputy Commissioners of Police, containing the names and details of miscreants in their jurisdictions. The report was submitted to the Kolkata Police headquarters at Lalbazar on Monday, a senior police officer said.According to the Intelligence Department of Kolkata Police, the names …
Kolkata, Feb 25 (IANS) One of the three children, critically injured in an explosion in a drum filled with chemicals in the Bhangar area of West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday morning. According to the police, the child, identified as nine-year-old Sadiqul Ahmed from Kharagachi in the Bhangar area, had suffered 95 per cent injuries in the explosion on February 17. He was undergoing treatment at MR Bangur Hospital in Kolkata. At around 6 a.m., he died …
Kolkata, Feb 19 (IANS) Kaizar Ahmed, a prominent Trinamool Congress leader from Bhangar in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, on Thursday filed a police complaint against his own party’s legislator from the adjacent Canning (Purba) Assembly constituency, Saokat Molla, accusing him of attempting to have him killed.In the complaint filed at Bhangar Police Station on Thursday afternoon, Ahmed alleged that Molla had hired a contract killer to assassinate him. In his written complaint, whic…
Kolkata, Feb 2 (IANS) Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Monday, alleged that land mafias backed by the ruling Trinamool Congress have filled a massive pond in Bhangar area of South 24 Parganas district. Sharing a video clip of the incident on his official X account, LoP Adhikari alleged that it was another example of illegal filling of protected East Kolkata Wetlands. He said this allowed illegitimate warehouses to be established without any permission …
Kolkata, Dec 28 (IANS) A female Home Guard was found dead in mysterious circumstances on the premises of a police station in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, said officials on Sunday.The body of the female Home Guard was found hanging inside a room in the residential quarters of the Canning Police station in the district. Following the incident, the family of the deceased has filed a murder complaint against a sub-inspector of the Canning police station.The incident has caused widesprea…