West Bengal

UNICEF, Bengal Govt join hands to combat Juvenile Diabetes

UNICEF has joined hands with the West Bengal Health & Family Welfare Department. The initiative aims to bring treatment and care for children suffering from non-communicable diseases, such as juvenile diabetes, to the grassroots level. Juvenile diabetes, also known as Type 1 diabetes, is a condition where a child's body destroys cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, which is essential for maintaining stable blood sugar levels. Consequently, children affected by this disease have to inject insulin multiple times a day.

Dec 22, 2024

RG Kar rape-murder: Calcutta HC gives conditional nod to protest by doctors' body in Kolkata

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday granted conditional nod to the West Bengal Joint Platform of Doctors, an umbrella body of senior doctors, to conduct sit-in demonstration in central Kolkata to protest the default bail to two accused of tampering of evidence in the case on ghastly rape and murder of a woman junior doctor of R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata within the hospital premises in August this year.

Dec 20, 2024

Bengal passport racket: Cops trying to track PDS dealers acting as roots of creating fake documents

Officials of investigating agencies probing the rackets engaged in arranging fake Indian passports for illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, are now trying to track the roots of this menace in a section of public distribution system (PDS) dealers in West Bengal.

Dec 20, 2024

Passport racket in Bengal: Another POPSK staff arrested

Another contractual staff, Dipankar Das, arrested in West Bengal for involvement in fake passport racket, bringing total arrests to five, with 73 Bangladeshi residents identified.

Dec 18, 2024

Fake passport racket: Another contractual staff of Postal Department held in Bengal

Another contractual staff of the Postal Department was arrested from West Bengal on Tuesday in connection with arranging fake Indian passports for illegal Bangladeshi residents.

Dec 17, 2024

RG Kar case: Calcutta HC admits petition challenging denial of police permission for protest

A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday morning admitted a petition by the West Bengal Joint Platform of Doctors, an umbrella association of senior doctors, challenging the denial of permission from Kolkata Police to stage a 10-day sit-in-demonstration to protest the "default bail" to two accused -- Sandip Ghosh and Abhijit Mondal -- of tampering of evidence.

Dec 17, 2024

Bengal Police detect various patterns for getting fake Indian documents for Bangladeshi infiltrators

The rackets operating in West Bengal and engaged in arranging for fake passports for illegal Bangladeshi infiltrators are following the same pattern and modus operandi of carrying out their operations, an investigation by the state police has revealed.

Dec 16, 2024

Rape-murder case: Bengal court convicts two; hands death penalty to one

A district court in Murshidabad district of West Bengal, on Friday, handed a death sentence to one convict and life imprisonment to another in the rape and murder of a minor girl case, which took place in Farkka in October.

Dec 13, 2024

After suspension, ex-registrar of iconic university in Bengal dismissed from job

The suspended registrar of iconic Rabindra Bharati University (RBU) Subir Maitra in Kolkata has been dismissed from service on various charges, including financial irregularities.

Dec 13, 2024

Bengal: Senior resident doctor accused of rape, attempt to murder absconding

A senior resident doctor attached with Murshidabad Medical College & Hospital in Murshidabad district of West Bengal, who had been accused of rape and attempt to murder, has been absconding since a formal complaint was filed against him this week.

Dec 12, 2024

Bengal school job case: CBI faces questions from Calcutta HC over arrest of prime accused

The Calcutta High Court on Monday posed questions to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) over its approach to show a prime accused in the multi-crore cash for school job case in West Bengal as arrested.

Dec 9, 2024

Three killed, several others injured in major explosion at Bengal's Murshidabad

At least three persons have been killed and several others injured following a major explosion early on Monday morning at Khayertala village under Sagarapara Police Station in Murshidabad district of West Bengal.

Dec 9, 2024

Karnataka Cong under pressure after death of six new mothers post delivery; Health Minister urges public protest

The Karnataka Congress government is facing mounting pressure after the death of another woman post-delivery in Ballari district. The death toll of new mothers who underwent cesarean surgery has reached six.

Dec 6, 2024

Youth arrested with narcotics valued at Rs 2 crore from Bengal

A youth was arrested after a narcotics consignment valued at Rs 2 crore was seized from him at Ghutiari Sharif in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on Wednesday.

Dec 4, 2024

SC reserves judgment on Partha Chatterjee's bail plea in Bengal school job scam case

The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its verdict on the bail plea of former West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee in connection with the money laundering case linked to the alleged cash-for-school-job scam case.

Dec 4, 2024

Bengal-Jharkhand potato dispute echoes in Parl; BJP MP for central intervention

The ongoing inter-state dispute over potato supply between West Bengal and Jharkhand reached Parliament on Tuesday. Hazaribagh BJP MP Manish Jaiswal brought up the issue in the Lok Sabha, urging the Union government to intervene in the matter.

Dec 3, 2024

Andhra has 14,87,631 Lakhpati Didis; Punjab 31,700

Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal are the top three large states leading in the creation of Lakhpati Didis at a time when there are a total of 1,15,00,274 such women entrepreneurs across the country

Dec 3, 2024

ED raids at multiple locations in Bengal over medical admission irregularities

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials were conducting raids at multiple locations in West Bengal in connection with irregularities in the medical admissions under the non-resident Indian (NRI) quota.

Dec 3, 2024

SC adjourns hearing on Partha Chatterjee's bail plea in cash-for-school job scam

The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned hearing on the bail plea of former West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee in connection with the money laundering case linked to the alleged cash-for-school job scam.

Dec 2, 2024

Fake IDs for Bangladeshi infiltrators: Bengal cops trying to bust Nadia racket

The detectives of Kolkata and West Bengal Police are trying to track the kingpins of a major racket operating out of the India-Bangladesh bordering district of Nadia

Dec 2, 2024