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The Enforcement Directorate is conducting searches at 14 locations across seven regions, including Kolkata, in a money-laundering probe into alleged fraudulent toll collection at National Highway toll plazas.

TMC Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien appeared at Shakespeare Sarani Police Station on Wednesday after a second notice in the Camac Street unrest case involving Abhishek Banerjee’s office.

West Bengal has launched Arjun Vahini, a 200-member special disaster response squad modelled on the NDRF, with future recruitment of Agniveers planned.

A relative of former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was found dead at her family home in Birbhum on Tuesday, prompting a police investigation into an unnatural death. The deceased has been identified as Bristy Mukherjee, daughter of Nihar Ranjan Mukherjee, a maternal cousin of Mamata Banerjee. Her body was recovered from a room on the second floor of the family home in Kusumba village, in the Rampurhat area of Birbhum. Family members said Bristy had been facing pe

CJP calls off September 5 Delhi march after Centre assurances The Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) has withdrawn its planned September 5 march in Delhi after the Centre moved in the Supreme Court on issues surrounding cases against student protesters and compensation for families of students who died by suicide. Why the march was planned CJP had announced the September 5 mobilisation after alleging that commitments made when its earlier student agitation was withdrawn had not bee

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Independence Day warning about "dimagi Naxals" has triggered a fresh debate over dissent, criticism and the limits of political labelling. CJP has questioned whether citizens who question the government should be placed in the same ideological category as Maoist supporters.

PM Modi's 'dimaagi Naxal' remark in his Independence Day speech triggered a sharp exchange with the Congress, which also faced BJP allegations that Sonia Gandhi objected to a full rendition of Vande Mataram at the party's own event.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered his 13th consecutive Independence Day address from the Red Fort in 75 minutes, his shortest in four years, unveiling a seven-point 'Sapta Dhara' development framework as Vande Mataram was sung at the ceremony for the first time.

Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has announced that direct benefit transfers under the Annapurna Yojana scheme will begin on August 17, with a fixed disbursement date every month going forward.

A leader of the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh was attacked in Kolaghat, prompting the BJP-affiliated trade union to demand arrests and warn of a statewide agitation.

An engineer was caught accepting a bribe in an Anti-Corruption Bureau trap in West Bengal, prompting Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari to reiterate his administration's zero-tolerance stance on corruption.

Speaking outside Safdarjung Hospital, where Mr. Wangchuk was taken early Saturday, his wife, Gitanjali J. Angmo, said the court's directive had called only for regular monitoring of his health — not confinement in a hospital.

Officials in South 24 Parganas district said the structure, on the Amtala-Baruipur road in Amtala, had gone up without proper building sanction — the legal basis cited for the demolition

We slammed the doors to Bengal in their faces. It is time we open them wide, extend a hand of respect, and tell them they are welcome back home.

MC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar resigns as Barasat district chief after poll debacle! Read her explosive allegations against election agency I-PAC and party corruption.

The Supreme Court has delivered a landmark verdict backing the Election Commission’s West Bengal SIR voter list process. Read the live updates on the 80 lakh voter data discrepancies and the SC’s historic ruling.