West Bengal Stripping

India has at least 150 elephant corridors spanning 15 range-states across four elephant-bearing regions, with West Bengal topping the list with 26 such land strips, according to a new Union Environment Ministry report.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has blamed the "Marxists" for the death of a student at Kolkata's Jadavpur University due to alleged ragging, accusing them of creating an "environment of terror" at prestigious institutions.

A tribal woman, who had returned to her husband after leaving him for six months allegedly for an extra-marital affair, was disrobed and paraded naked by some villagers in Alipurduar. She ran away to her parental home in Assam.

Days after Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee declared that she will not allow the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill to be implemented in West Bengal even if it becomes law, her counterparts in Kerala and Punjab today said they will have nothing to do with the BJP-led centre's alleged attempts to strip the country of its secular credentials either.

Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh has landed in controversy following his alleged remarks at a public rally inciting violence against the state police and the ruling Trinamool Congress. He has allegedly exhorted his party workers to thrash Trinamool activists and the police.

The Ministry of Home Affairs has reportedly asked the West Bengal government to initiate disciplinary action against five police officers who took part in protests against the CBI in Kolkata earlier this week, sources said. It also reportedly plans to strip them of their medals in keeping with the All India Service Rules.

The Bengal BJP chief today warned Kolkata Police of "stripping" them of their uniforms if the party comes to power, accusing policemen of filing false complaints against BJP workers. Taking on the state police force, he said the cops were "not worthy" of their uniforms.

Kolkata Mayor Sovan Chatterjee today resigned as minister in the West Bengal government. Following the sudden move, chief minister Mamata Banerjee also asked him to quit as mayor. For now, urban affairs minister Firhad Hakim will head the Kolkata municipal corporation.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday alleged that "dirty politics" is going on in the name of publication of the final draft of National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam as names of genuine voters have been struck off the list. The Trinamool Congress supremo asserted that she was not against the Assam government, but she does n...

Four men were arrested for stripping an "emotionally immature man", making his video and allegedly circulating it in social media in Nadia district of West Bengal, police said on Friday.

"I was stripped. I told them (female jail staff) to at least let me keep my underwear on as I had my period. They abused me, forced me to crouch, and removed my sanitary pad and underwear." This is the statement of a leading SFI activist of Bengal. The National Human Rights Commission under retired Chief Justice Dattu has instituted an inquiry into...

Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of Bengal, is set to downgrade her once-powerful aide Mukul Roy further by stripping him of his parliamentary posts.

A first-year student at the iconic Visva-Bharati University in Shantiniketan in West Bengal has alleged that three senior students forced her to strip, photographed her and then threatened to post the pictures on the internet if she did not pay them money.

Two women teachers were arrested on Saturday for allegedly strip searching a girl student on the suspicion that she had stolen money, at Kaligati Smriti Nari Siksha Niketan in Birbhum district of West Bengal. The girl, a student of class-XI, filed a complaint with the police that two teachers, Chaitali Gupta and Lipika Saha, took her to the teache...

Two women teachers were arrested today for allegedly strip searching a girl student on the suspicion that she had stolen money at Kaligati Smriti Nari Siksha Niketan in Suri, about 170 kms from Kolkata.

India has at least 150 elephant corridors spanning 15 range-states across four elephant-bearing regions, with West Bengal topping the list with 26 such land strips, according to a new Union Environment Ministry report.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has blamed the "Marxists" for the death of a student at Kolkata's Jadavpur University due to alleged ragging, accusing them of creating an "environment of terror" at prestigious institutions.

A tribal woman, who had returned to her husband after leaving him for six months allegedly for an extra-marital affair, was disrobed and paraded naked by some villagers in Alipurduar. She ran away to her parental home in Assam.

Days after Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee declared that she will not allow the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill to be implemented in West Bengal even if it becomes law, her counterparts in Kerala and Punjab today said they will have nothing to do with the BJP-led centre's alleged attempts to strip the country of its secular credentials either.

Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh has landed in controversy following his alleged remarks at a public rally inciting violence against the state police and the ruling Trinamool Congress. He has allegedly exhorted his party workers to thrash Trinamool activists and the police.

The Ministry of Home Affairs has reportedly asked the West Bengal government to initiate disciplinary action against five police officers who took part in protests against the CBI in Kolkata earlier this week, sources said. It also reportedly plans to strip them of their medals in keeping with the All India Service Rules.

The Bengal BJP chief today warned Kolkata Police of "stripping" them of their uniforms if the party comes to power, accusing policemen of filing false complaints against BJP workers. Taking on the state police force, he said the cops were "not worthy" of their uniforms.

Kolkata Mayor Sovan Chatterjee today resigned as minister in the West Bengal government. Following the sudden move, chief minister Mamata Banerjee also asked him to quit as mayor. For now, urban affairs minister Firhad Hakim will head the Kolkata municipal corporation.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday alleged that "dirty politics" is going on in the name of publication of the final draft of National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam as names of genuine voters have been struck off the list. The Trinamool Congress supremo asserted that she was not against the Assam government, but she does n...

Four men were arrested for stripping an "emotionally immature man", making his video and allegedly circulating it in social media in Nadia district of West Bengal, police said on Friday.

"I was stripped. I told them (female jail staff) to at least let me keep my underwear on as I had my period. They abused me, forced me to crouch, and removed my sanitary pad and underwear." This is the statement of a leading SFI activist of Bengal. The National Human Rights Commission under retired Chief Justice Dattu has instituted an inquiry into...

Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of Bengal, is set to downgrade her once-powerful aide Mukul Roy further by stripping him of his parliamentary posts.

A first-year student at the iconic Visva-Bharati University in Shantiniketan in West Bengal has alleged that three senior students forced her to strip, photographed her and then threatened to post the pictures on the internet if she did not pay them money.

Two women teachers were arrested on Saturday for allegedly strip searching a girl student on the suspicion that she had stolen money, at Kaligati Smriti Nari Siksha Niketan in Birbhum district of West Bengal. The girl, a student of class-XI, filed a complaint with the police that two teachers, Chaitali Gupta and Lipika Saha, took her to the teache...

Two women teachers were arrested today for allegedly strip searching a girl student on the suspicion that she had stolen money at Kaligati Smriti Nari Siksha Niketan in Suri, about 170 kms from Kolkata.