Supreme Court quashes Bengal govt's plea challenging Chhatra Samaj leader Sayan Lahiri's relief
Sep 02, 2024, at 08:48 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: In further embarrassment for the West Bengal government, the Supreme Court on Monday quashed the State's plea challenging Paschim Banga Chhatra Samaj leader Sayan Lahiri's relief in connection with the violence during march to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's office, Nabanna, last week.
Sep 02, 2024, at 08:18 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: A Trinamool Congress leader from West Bengal's Ashokenagar has threatened to hang distorted pictures of women as a counter to the alleged attempt to malign Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's images in the backdrop of the RG Kar rape-murder case.
Jammu and Kashmir: Terrorists attack army base, one soldier injured
Sep 02, 2024, at 07:55 pm
Suspected terrorists attacked the Sunjwan army camp near Jammu Darbar in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday which left an Indian soldier injured.
Sep 02, 2024, at 06:55 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Actor-turned Trinamool Congress MLA Kanchan Mullick has stirred a controversy by questioning whether junior doctors, who are on a ceasework protesting against the RG Kar rape-murder case, would refuse to accept their salaries and bonuses triggering sharp responses from people from his own film fraternity.
Sep 02, 2024, at 05:27 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress, which is at the receiving end of a massive public ire over the RG Kar rape-murder case, has boycotted three Bengali television channels for allegedly running "anti-Bengal agenda-driven propaganda".
ED wants to arrest me: AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan after probe agency reaches his residence
Sep 02, 2024, at 05:08 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Officials of the Enforcement Directorate on Monday reached the residence of Aam Aadmi Party MLA Amanatullah Khan's residence for a raid in connection with a money laundering case.
Sep 02, 2024, at 07:26 am
Indian President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday said the common man feels that the judicial process lacks sensitivity after court decisions in a heinous crime like rape come after a generation has passed.
Sep 02, 2024, at 05:38 am
Kolkata/IBNS: "I want justice in this case," says Riyanshi Adhikari, a Class 3 student who almost forced her mother to take her along in another grand rally- dubbed as 'Maha Michil'- to protest the shocking rape and murder of a trainee doctor at Kolkata's state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital last month.
Two die in firing by suspected Kuki insurgents in Manipur
Sep 02, 2024, at 05:37 am
At least two people, including a woman, and several others were injured after a gunfight broke out near Koutruk in Kangchup region in Imphal West district of Manipur on Sunday, media reports said.
Sep 02, 2024, at 04:00 am
Indian Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar on Sunday termed the violence committed against a health warrior on August 9th as barbarity expressed in extremity, shaming entire humanity.
Mumbai: Autorickshaw driver allegedly molests schoolgirl in Borivali
Sep 02, 2024, at 02:48 am
A schoolgirl was allegedly molested by an autorickshaw driver in Mumbai's Borivali area, police said on Sunday.
Sep 01, 2024, at 10:38 pm
Kolkata: Jadavpur University (JU) is embroiled in a fresh controversy after a second-year engineering student lodged a complaint against some students of the class of 2024, accusing them of ragging him inside the Union room earlier in August, media reports said.
Patient molests nurse at Birbhum health centre in West Bengal during night shift
Sep 01, 2024, at 07:18 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: At a time when Bengal is witnessing massive protest and outrage over the gruesome rape and murder of a junior doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, a disturbing news of a nurse being molested by a patient in a Birbhum health centre has come to the fore, media reports said.
Veteran JDU leader KC Tyagi resigns as Nitish Kumar party's spokesperson
Sep 01, 2024, at 05:58 pm
Patna/IBNS: Veteran Janata Dal (United) leader KC Tyagi has resigned as the party's spokesperson.
INDIA bloc holds mega protest in Mumbai over Shivaji statue collapse amid heavy security deployment
Sep 01, 2024, at 05:16 pm
Mumbai/IBNS: The INDIA bloc in Maharashtra which is represented by Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi is holding a massive protest rally in Mumbai on Sunday over the collapse of Chhatrapati Shivaji's 35-foot statue at Malvan in Sindhudurg.
Sep 01, 2024, at 07:51 am
Srinagar: Four candidates of Ghulam Nabi Azad's party Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) withdrew their nomination papers in the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls, after he backed away from electioneering citing health issues, media reports said.
Ex-Singaporean diplomat says UK should relinquish UN permanent seat to India: Report
Sep 01, 2024, at 05:17 am
New Delhi: Former Singapore diplomat Professor Kishore Mahbubani has called for urgent reforms to the United Nations Security Council, advocating for India's rightful inclusion as a permanent member of the prestigious body, media reports said.
Haryana: 5 arrested for killing migrant labourer suspected of eating beef
Sep 01, 2024, at 01:43 am
New Delhi: Five cow vigilantes have been arrested, and two minors detained in Haryana's Charkhi Dadri for allegedly killing a man suspected of consuming beef, media reports said.
Sep 01, 2024, at 12:27 am
The Election Commission of India on Saturday deferred assembly polls date for Haryana from October 1 to October 5.
Laos: 47 Indians rescued who were trapped, forced to scam people online
Aug 31, 2024, at 11:09 pm
The Embassy in Laos on Saturday informed 47 Indian nationals who were held forcefully in the country and directed to scam Indians back home online.
Narendra Modi to visit Singapore, Brunei Darussalam
Aug 31, 2024, at 10:00 pm
Indian PM Narendra Modi, at the invitation of Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah, is scheduled to visit Brunei Darussalam on September 3-4, officials said.
After Calcutta HC order, Chhatra Samaj leader Sayan Lahiri walks out of jail
Aug 31, 2024, at 09:54 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: After the Calcutta High Court order, Paschim Banga Chhatra Samaj leader Sayan Lahiri, who was arrested over the march to West Bengal state secretariat Nabanna, walked out of jail, media reports said.
Aug 31, 2024, at 09:18 pm
Mumbai/IBNS: Popular Bollywood singer Shreya Ghoshal's rescheduling of her concert in Kolkata in the wake of the RG Kar rape-murder case has prompted the Bharatiya Janata Party to slam West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Aug 31, 2024, at 08:43 pm
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said atrocities against women and the safety of children were a serious concern in the society today.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi flags off three Vande Bharat trains via video conferencing
Aug 31, 2024, at 08:19 pm
PM Narendra Modi flagged off three Vande Bharat trains via videoconferencing on Saturday.
Defective helicopter, airlifted from Uttarakhand's Kedarnath by MI-17 chopper, crashes
Aug 31, 2024, at 05:57 pm
A defective helicopter, which was airlifted from Uttarakhand's Kedarnath by a MI-17 chopper, crashed from mid-air on Saturday morning, media reports said.
Chhatra Samaj leader Sayan Lahiri, arrested over Nabanna march, granted bail by Calcutta HC
Aug 31, 2024, at 05:16 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Paschim Banga Chhatra Samaj leader Sayan Lahiri, who was arrested in connection with the August 27 march to the state secretariat Nabanna, was granted bail by the Calcutta High Court on Friday leaving the administration egg-faced, media reports said.
Aug 31, 2024, at 07:22 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The Union Women and Child Development Minister has responded to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's second letter, seeking a stringent law and exemplary punishment for heinous crimes such as rape and murder.
Aug 31, 2024, at 07:00 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday strongly condemned a purported statement made by the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) headed by senior lawyer and MP Kapil Sibal in connection with the rape and murder case of a junior doctor in Kolkata.
LGBTQIA+ couples in India can now open joint bank accounts
Aug 31, 2024, at 06:46 am
In a major victory of the queer movement in India, the Union Finance Ministry has clarified that people from the LGBTQIA+ community can open joint bank accounts or nominate their same-sex partner as a nominee for an account. The advisory by the Indian government is seen as a major step forward since the Supreme Court judgement of 2018 to decriminalize homosexuality in the country.