Kolkata: A 61-year-old man, Judhajit Ghosh alias Yudhajit, has been arrested from Deshapriya Park on Tuesday evening for allegedly pretending to be an Enforcement Directorate official and trying to extort money from a former Kolkata Municipal Corporation councillor.The accused is from Kailash Ghosh Road in Haridevpur and was living at Regent Park Govt Colony. Police…
A still from ‘Ab Tak Chhappan’ that glorifiesextrajudicial murder as a heroic necessity but Diljit Doshanj’s ‘Satluj’and Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘The Lowland’ criticise such attempts Kolkata: The police “encounter” killing of a prime accused in the Baruipur rape-and-murder case has brought the reality of extrajudicial justice to the fore, reigniting a discourse of Bengal for long…
Kolkata: With football fever soaring in the city, several schools are embracing their students’ sporting spirit by making adjustments to their academic schedules.South Point School issued a notice to parents and students of classes 6-12 announcing the postponement of periodic assessment I, pre-midterm tests and unit test I, which were scheduled for July 20 and…
. The accused in the murder of a minor girl in Suryapur Baruipur are being taken to Court —- TOI Kolkata: Prabhas Mondal, 38, the first of the four men arrested in the Baruipur minor rape-and-murder case before being shot dead in the wee hours of Wednesday, was always flirting with the wrong side of…
Kolkata: Police on Tuesday gunned down one of the four accused in the Baruipur rape-murder case after he allegedly snatched one of their guns and fired at them. Prabash Mondal was shot at 12.45am, about 30 metres from the scene of the grisly crime in the Suryapur neighbourhood of Baruipur, when he was taken there…
Protest in Baruipur after the rape-murder of the 12-year-old girl Baruipur: Kabir Mollah, the fourth accused in the rape and murder of the 12-year-old girl in Baruipur, was arrested on Wednesday by a team comprising officers of Special Operation Group of the Baruipur police district and Special Task Force of Bengal Police. Mollah, in his…
Kolkata: It was a mighty scare that left Argentina fans with their hearts in their mouths on Tuesday night. It ended in fairy-tale fashion, though, with the God of football coming to the rescue when it mattered the most – scoring the equalizer himself to make it 2-2 after trailing Egypt 0-2 for 67 minutes….
The spot where the Baruipur rape and murder accused was shot dead Kolkata: Tucked away from the railway tracks adjacent to Surjapur railway station, a 30-metre gap separate the area of the ‘encounter’ that led to the death of Prabash Mondal, a key accused in the minor’s rape and murder, and the spot of the…
Kolkata: The recent history of encounter deaths in Bengal stretches back almost six decades but several factors have made these episodes stand out from each other across the different regimes that have governed Bengal since the 1960s. During the Naxal movement, encounters became a prominent fixture in Bengal with many young, brilliant students—several of them…
Kolkata: State BJP president Samik Bhattacharya on Wednesday alleged that tribal communities in Bengal suffered heavily due to the “politics of hatred” pursued by the previous Trinamool Congress govt.Recounting how President Droupadi Murmu was allegedly slighted during a visit to the state under the previous govt, Bhattacharya said the TMC went to the extent of…
