Mamata's close aide and TMC councillor shot dead in Malda

Trinamool Congress councillor Dulal Sarkar was shot dead by unidentified miscreants in West Bengal's Malda district on Thursday morning, the police said. Image used for representational purposes......

No death certificates for Bengal women killed in Kumbh stampede

Families of two women from West Bengal, who were among the 30 pilgrims killed in a stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela, alleged on Thursday that they were handed over the bodies without death......

Bengal govt moves HC for death sentence to RG Kar convict

The West Bengal government on Tuesday moved the Calcutta high court to file an appeal seeking death penalty of the convict in the RG Kar hospital doctor's rape and murder case and secured the......

Bengali theatre icon returns state award over doctor's murder

Amid protests by civil society organisations over the rape-murder of a trainee doctor, Bengali theatre personality Biplab Bandyopadhyay on Tuesday announced returning the state-instituted......