West Bengal Police

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday took to the streets here to protest against the alleged manhandling of wrestlers at New Delhi's Jantar Mantar after they tried to march towards the new Parliament.

Two workers of a sponge iron factory in West Bengal's Bankura district succumbed to their burn injuries on Wednesday, while six others are fighting for their lives after molten iron fell on them, officials said.

Four people were arrested on Saturday in connection with the attack on senior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee's convoy, in which state minister Birbaha Hansda's vehicle was vandalised, police said.

Kolkata police said it had registered an FIR against the producer and director of the film 'Diary of West Bengal' alleging that the movie's trailer had promoted enmity between different groups.

As many as 26 children hailing from West Bengal and Jharkhand, who were being brought to Hyderabad allegedly to work as labourers were rescued and eight "traffickers" were arrested at the Secunderabad Railway Station here, the Telangana Police said.

Police seized a huge quantity of explosives and banned firecrackers during raids in different locations in rural West Bengal and arrested at least 100 people for their alleged involvement in running illegal manufacturing factories, a senior state pol

Three women of the same family, including a minor were killed and several persons were injured in a blast at an illegal firecracker manufacturing unit at Budge Budge, about 26 km from the city, police said.

The West Bengal CID today arrested the prime accused and two others from Odisha in connection with its probe into a blast at an illegal firecracker factory in Purba Medinipur district where nine people were killed in the explosion.

A 40-year-old Trinamool Congress activist was killed and at least 25 others were injured in lightning strikes during Sunday's thunderstorms in West Bengal's Bankura district, police said.

A lower court on Saturday granted West Bengal Police 11 days custody of the suspected terrorist from the Al-Qaeda outfit who was arrested earlier in the day by West Bengal Special Task Force (STF).

A 24-year-old woman called here for job from West Bengal was allegedly gang raped several times by at least five men in Chakkarpur area, police said on Saturday.

Amid the grave law and order situation at Kaliachak in the North Dinajpur district of West Bengal in the wake of the alleged rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl, the BJP on Thursday alleged that one of its workers was shot dead by the state police.

The Calcutta High Court Thursday directed West Bengal police to file a progress report on its probe into the unnatural death of a minor girl at Kaliaganj in Uttar Dinajpur district, which had triggered violent protests there earlier this week.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said a disaster had been averted by the police's timely action after man brandishing a gun and threatening to hold a classroom full of children hostage at gunpoint was tackled and arrested.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged that outsiders were brought to the state to carry out attacks on Kaliaganj Police Station and private property at Kaliaganj in Uttar Dinajpur district.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday took to the streets here to protest against the alleged manhandling of wrestlers at New Delhi's Jantar Mantar after they tried to march towards the new Parliament.

Two workers of a sponge iron factory in West Bengal's Bankura district succumbed to their burn injuries on Wednesday, while six others are fighting for their lives after molten iron fell on them, officials said.

Four people were arrested on Saturday in connection with the attack on senior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee's convoy, in which state minister Birbaha Hansda's vehicle was vandalised, police said.

Kolkata police said it had registered an FIR against the producer and director of the film 'Diary of West Bengal' alleging that the movie's trailer had promoted enmity between different groups.

As many as 26 children hailing from West Bengal and Jharkhand, who were being brought to Hyderabad allegedly to work as labourers were rescued and eight "traffickers" were arrested at the Secunderabad Railway Station here, the Telangana Police said.

Police seized a huge quantity of explosives and banned firecrackers during raids in different locations in rural West Bengal and arrested at least 100 people for their alleged involvement in running illegal manufacturing factories, a senior state pol

Three women of the same family, including a minor were killed and several persons were injured in a blast at an illegal firecracker manufacturing unit at Budge Budge, about 26 km from the city, police said.

The West Bengal CID today arrested the prime accused and two others from Odisha in connection with its probe into a blast at an illegal firecracker factory in Purba Medinipur district where nine people were killed in the explosion.

A 40-year-old Trinamool Congress activist was killed and at least 25 others were injured in lightning strikes during Sunday's thunderstorms in West Bengal's Bankura district, police said.

A lower court on Saturday granted West Bengal Police 11 days custody of the suspected terrorist from the Al-Qaeda outfit who was arrested earlier in the day by West Bengal Special Task Force (STF).

A 24-year-old woman called here for job from West Bengal was allegedly gang raped several times by at least five men in Chakkarpur area, police said on Saturday.

Amid the grave law and order situation at Kaliachak in the North Dinajpur district of West Bengal in the wake of the alleged rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl, the BJP on Thursday alleged that one of its workers was shot dead by the state police.

The Calcutta High Court Thursday directed West Bengal police to file a progress report on its probe into the unnatural death of a minor girl at Kaliaganj in Uttar Dinajpur district, which had triggered violent protests there earlier this week.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said a disaster had been averted by the police's timely action after man brandishing a gun and threatening to hold a classroom full of children hostage at gunpoint was tackled and arrested.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged that outsiders were brought to the state to carry out attacks on Kaliaganj Police Station and private property at Kaliaganj in Uttar Dinajpur district.