People Detained In Bengal

Thirty-seven people have been detained after a clash between two communities in West Bengal's Hooghly district on Sunday night. A huge police team had to be posted in the tense Telinipara area to ensure calm. There has been no further incident in the last 24 hours.

Rail and road traffic was hit in several states including Bengal, Odisha and Tamil Nadu as a 24-hour nationwide strike by ten trade unions against the central government began this morning. Violence broke out in Bengal as a police vehicle was targeted in Jadavpur and CPM MLA Sujan Chakraborty was detained. A scuffle was reported between the workers...

As many as 1,726 people were detained in the city and its adjoining areas for allegedly flouting the law on Christmas Eve, a top police officer said on Wednesday.

Three persons died and several were injured as protests swept at least 10 states against the Centre's new law on citizenship. Permission for the protest was denied in almost all states but the protesters defied the police and a lockdown across Uttar Pradesh, parts of Delhi, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh. In Mangaluru, where curfew has been declared,...

Union Ministers Babul Supriyo and Debashree Choudhury, who are from West Bengal, were greeted by fellow BJP lawmakers with "Jai Shri Ram" slogans when they were called to take oath as Lok Sabha Members.

A day after four women were assaulted on suspicion of being child kidnappers in Dhupguri block of Jalpaiguri district, four others were detained on Tuesday after people of a village in the block handed them over to the police on the same suspicion.

Four people were today detained here in connection with the gang rape of a 72-year-old nun in Ranaghat in West Bengal's Nadia district, police said.

Thirty-seven people have been detained after a clash between two communities in West Bengal's Hooghly district on Sunday night. A huge police team had to be posted in the tense Telinipara area to ensure calm. There has been no further incident in the last 24 hours.

Rail and road traffic was hit in several states including Bengal, Odisha and Tamil Nadu as a 24-hour nationwide strike by ten trade unions against the central government began this morning. Violence broke out in Bengal as a police vehicle was targeted in Jadavpur and CPM MLA Sujan Chakraborty was detained. A scuffle was reported between the workers...

As many as 1,726 people were detained in the city and its adjoining areas for allegedly flouting the law on Christmas Eve, a top police officer said on Wednesday.

Three persons died and several were injured as protests swept at least 10 states against the Centre's new law on citizenship. Permission for the protest was denied in almost all states but the protesters defied the police and a lockdown across Uttar Pradesh, parts of Delhi, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh. In Mangaluru, where curfew has been declared,...

Union Ministers Babul Supriyo and Debashree Choudhury, who are from West Bengal, were greeted by fellow BJP lawmakers with "Jai Shri Ram" slogans when they were called to take oath as Lok Sabha Members.

A day after four women were assaulted on suspicion of being child kidnappers in Dhupguri block of Jalpaiguri district, four others were detained on Tuesday after people of a village in the block handed them over to the police on the same suspicion.

Four people were today detained here in connection with the gang rape of a 72-year-old nun in Ranaghat in West Bengal's Nadia district, police said.