According to NDRF Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Mohsen Shahedi, three teams have already been mobilised from Darjeeling, Siliguri, and Alipurduar, while two more teams, one each from Malda and Kolkata, are en route to the affected sites.
Krishna Priya, Excise Superintendent, Shamshabad, said that the two accused, originally from Malda, West Bengal, had been temporarily residing in Khajaguda and were involved in the sale of brown sugar to known local customers.
"During the time of the Waqf Act, around 4,000 people from Malda, Murshidabad, and Kaliachak came to my constituency because it's nearby. We had to take care of their food and shelter, providing them with three meals a day, and everything else. We have passed an Act; if you wish to render
The Learned Additional District and Sessions Judge of the 2nd POCSO Court in Malda, West Bengal, rendered a sentence of life imprisonment to the defendant in a case involving rape.
A special court in Malda has convicted an individual accused for the rape of a nine-year-old girl, marking the first conviction in the post-poll violence cases of West Bengal investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), said a statement from the agency.
BJP leader Dilip Ghosh criticised West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ahead of her visit to Murshidabad. He said that the Chief Minister should have gone to the violence hit area earlier.
The National Commission for Women has expressed deep concern over the recent communal violence in West Bengal's Murshidabad and Malda districts, where women and girls were "subjected to unspeakable acts of sexual violence, physical assault, and rape threats."
According to an official BSF release, "On the evening of 22 April 2025, vigilant Jawans from the Border Outpost Nawada of the 119th Battalion of the Border Security Force (BSF) successfully thwarted an attempt to smuggle firearms from India to Bangladesh along the International Border in Mal
In the aftermath of being detained by the police in Kolkata on Tuesday, Union Minister and West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar alleged that there was no democracy in West Bengal and permission was denied even for collecting donations for the victims of the Murshidabad violence.
National Commission for Women (NCW) Chairperson Vijaya Rahatkar on Sunday met with West Bengal Governor CV Anand Bose at Raj Bhavan over violence in Malda, Murshidabad.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Agnimitra Paul called the Murshidabad violence as ethnic cleansing and alleged that the violence was state-sponsored terrorism under Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Following National Commission for Women (NCW) team's visit to violence-affected Murshidabad area, Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Kunal Ghosh alleged that women's commission was a part of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP's) Mahila Morcha and were coming to West Bengal for political assignment.