Kolkata, July 1 (IANS) Amateur radio operators (HAMs) are finding it difficult to reunite a mentally challenged woman from West Bengal, whom they traced to Mumbai, with her family. The woman, mother of a 20-year-old son and a 16-year-old daughter, allegedly lost her mental balance after facing torture from her husband, relatives said.Thereafter, she started straying from home.”About six years ago, she was traced to Gujarat and brought back to her matrimonial home in Gangarampur, Uluberia, in the…
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Kolkata, June 27 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday met the family of BJP worker Prashant Dey, who was killed in the Bagnan area in Howrah district in a case of political violence. Along with announcing compensation to the family, he also assured them of justice. So far, 10 people have been arrested in this incident, out of a total of 51 names in the FIR. The Chief Minister has ordered the immediate arrest of the remaining 41 accused. He said that if necessary, the ac…
Kolkata, June 22 (IANS) A housewife, Bharati Hazra, was hacked to death in Howrah district’s Shibpur area for allegedly failing to repay a loan in full in one go, said the police on Monday.According to the police, the murder took place on Sunday evening. The deceased woman’s husband alleged that she was murdered because she could not repay the loan in one instalment.The police are trying to find the killer by examining the CCTV footage of the area.According to local sources, on Sunday evening, f…
New Delhi/Kolkata, June 14 (IANS) The rebel and majority bloc within the Trinamool Congress Parliamentary team in the Lok Sabha, under the leadership of two four-time Lok Sabha members, Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar and Satabdi Roy, has decided to join the Tripura-based Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI) instead of pursuing the much-discussed possibility of forming a separate bloc of the Trinamool Congress Parliamentary Party in the Lower House of Parliament.The rebel MPs made an official req…
Kolkata, May 24 (IANS) A Bangladeshi couple allegedly living illegally in West Bengal for the last 14 years has been arrested from the Jagacha police station area in Howrah district, police said on Sunday.The arrested individuals have been identified as Ramzan Ghazi, 36, and Arifa Begum, 34.According to police, a raid was conducted at a house under the Jagacha police station area following a tip-off, during which the couple was apprehended. Police said the two are husband and wife and were stayi…
Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) Two employees of a businessman from Gujarat were allegedly robbed by a gang on the pretext of carrying out a business transaction. After looting Rs 42 lakh from them, the accused allegedly abducted the two employees and forced them into a car.However, it is alleged that the two men were later taken to the Kona Expressway in Howrah district and thrown out of the car. After learning about the incident, the businessman from Gujarat arrived in Kolkata and lodged a formal compl…
Kolkata, April 13 (IANS) After receiving complaints of alleged violation of the Model Code of Conduct by a Trinamool candidate by organising religious events, Election Commission officials went to Bali in Howrah district to probe the matter, said Commission officials on Monday.The BJP alleged that Trinamool candidate Kailash Mishra from Bali organised a ‘naam-sankirtan’ to influence voters. The candidate’s name is in the ‘sankirtan’ event.After receiving the complaint, election officials went to…
Kolkata, April 7 (IANS) A huge amount of money was recovered in Kolkata on Tuesday ahead of the Assembly elections. About Rs 19 lakh was seized from the Shyambazar area of north Kolkata. Two persons have been arrested in connection with the incident, said a senior officer of Kolkata Police.Investigators are trying to find out where the money was being brought from and where and to whom it was being taken. Raids are also being carried out in different places in Kolkata before the elections….
Kolkata, March 5 (IANS) The two main accused in the murder of a promoter in West Bengal’s Howrah district were arrested from Delhi on Thursday by a state police team, an official said.Harun Khan and Rohit Hossain were arrested in the national capital’s Jama Masjid area and are being brought back to Kolkata on transit remand, Howrah city police’s ACP, North-I Division, Shaik Habeebulla, said.The arrested will be handed over to the West Bengal CID, which is conducting the investigation in the case…
Kolkata, Feb 25 (IANS) A youth was shot dead from point-blank range by two miscreants in the Golabari Police Station area of Howrah district, West Bengal, on Wednesday.The shocking incident, which occurred around 4 a.m., was caught on CCTV footage, said the police.The deceased youth has been identified as Safiq Khan. As per the CCTV footage, he was surrounded by two men. While one stood in front of him and another stood behind. Suddenly, they pulled out guns and shot at his head. As soon as the …