Bengal Priest

A clergyman was arrested from West Bengal's Darjeeling district for allegedly duping a woman of Dimapur in Nagaland by convincing her to buy a 'mystery box' for Rs 3.5 crore that would bring her fortune, police said.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee can do no wrong as she is like a god, West Bengal minister Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay said on Sunday, asserting that even priests sometimes turn out to be thieves, but not gods.

Durga Puja 2020: Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Durga Puja will be different this year. In the 'new normal', Bengalis living outside India are busy taking online lessons to perform Durga Puja themselves. COVID-19 has forced the priests from West Bengal to cancel their international travel plans. For decades, priests from the state used to travel to...

Under frequent attack by opposition parties for "minority appeasement", West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday announced monthly financial assistance of Rs 1,000 and free housing for over 8,000 Hindu priests of the state, ahead of the assembly election which is likely to be held in April-May next year.

Christians have protested against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens before, but for the first time on Monday, priests took to the streets of Kolkata in their cassocks to voice their condemnation. They claim that while Muslims have been excluded from the ambit of the amended citizenship law now, it could be the turn...

The police in West Bengal posted a rare status update on Twitter on Friday as a political row triggered by the horrific murder of a family of three in Murshidabad scaled up following the death of a priest in in the Nadia district.

After the horrific murder of a family of three, including a child, the death of a priest in West Bengal's Nadia district has become a new flashpoint in the ruling BJP's attack on the state's Mamata Banerjee government.

Varanasi temple priest Balak Das said that Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's hatred towards Ram will one day be the reason for her fall.

Former Mayor Sovan Chatterjee, his girlfriend and a political science professor Baishakhi Banerjee and the Salt Lake Mayor Sabyasachi Dutta were to participate in a panel organised by a right wing NGO 'Bengal Thinks'. The discussion on "the interface of religion, spirituality and politics in today's Bengal" also featured a priest from Bharat Sevash...

Father Franois Laborde, a 92-year-old priest, was on Wednesday conferred the Legion d'Honneur, the highest civilian award of France, in recognition of his work for specially-abled children.

The BJP accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of mollifying the Hindu community after alleged minority appeasement for years after her party, the Trinamool Congress, hosted a purohit sammelan - a congregation of Hindu priests - in Birbhum district on Monday.

Hundreds of priests, school girls and other protesters staged a rally in Kolkata to support an elderly nun who was gang-raped at her convent school over the weekend.

The warden of the Don Bosco School at Sagardighi in West Bengal has been arrested for allegedly molesting a 10-year-old student. Father James Soren had been missing since Thursday when the Class V student complained to his parents.

A clergyman was arrested from West Bengal's Darjeeling district for allegedly duping a woman of Dimapur in Nagaland by convincing her to buy a 'mystery box' for Rs 3.5 crore that would bring her fortune, police said.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee can do no wrong as she is like a god, West Bengal minister Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay said on Sunday, asserting that even priests sometimes turn out to be thieves, but not gods.

Durga Puja 2020: Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Durga Puja will be different this year. In the 'new normal', Bengalis living outside India are busy taking online lessons to perform Durga Puja themselves. COVID-19 has forced the priests from West Bengal to cancel their international travel plans. For decades, priests from the state used to travel to...

Under frequent attack by opposition parties for "minority appeasement", West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday announced monthly financial assistance of Rs 1,000 and free housing for over 8,000 Hindu priests of the state, ahead of the assembly election which is likely to be held in April-May next year.

Christians have protested against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens before, but for the first time on Monday, priests took to the streets of Kolkata in their cassocks to voice their condemnation. They claim that while Muslims have been excluded from the ambit of the amended citizenship law now, it could be the turn...

The police in West Bengal posted a rare status update on Twitter on Friday as a political row triggered by the horrific murder of a family of three in Murshidabad scaled up following the death of a priest in in the Nadia district.

After the horrific murder of a family of three, including a child, the death of a priest in West Bengal's Nadia district has become a new flashpoint in the ruling BJP's attack on the state's Mamata Banerjee government.

Varanasi temple priest Balak Das said that Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's hatred towards Ram will one day be the reason for her fall.

Former Mayor Sovan Chatterjee, his girlfriend and a political science professor Baishakhi Banerjee and the Salt Lake Mayor Sabyasachi Dutta were to participate in a panel organised by a right wing NGO 'Bengal Thinks'. The discussion on "the interface of religion, spirituality and politics in today's Bengal" also featured a priest from Bharat Sevash...

Father Franois Laborde, a 92-year-old priest, was on Wednesday conferred the Legion d'Honneur, the highest civilian award of France, in recognition of his work for specially-abled children.

The BJP accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of mollifying the Hindu community after alleged minority appeasement for years after her party, the Trinamool Congress, hosted a purohit sammelan - a congregation of Hindu priests - in Birbhum district on Monday.

Hundreds of priests, school girls and other protesters staged a rally in Kolkata to support an elderly nun who was gang-raped at her convent school over the weekend.

The warden of the Don Bosco School at Sagardighi in West Bengal has been arrested for allegedly molesting a 10-year-old student. Father James Soren had been missing since Thursday when the Class V student complained to his parents.