The Centre's much-debated Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), by which members of religious minorities in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, who settled in the country as refugees after fleeing alleged persecution in their homelands, are to be given permanent Indian residency; could well
Women of the Battala area near Sandeshkhali in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas on Thursday staged a protest demanding the arrest of the culprits involved in the recent assault on a woman in Sandeshkhali.
Addressing a rally at Bongaon in the North 24 Parganas on Tuesday, the Union Home Minister said the TMC government provided a monthly honorarium to Imams but not a penny to priests and custodians of temples.
"We don't agree with CAA. If they make it unconditional I do not have a problem with that. Earlier state governments used to give citizenship, DMs used to give citizenship when needed. If anyone stays in America for 10 years they will get a green card. Why are you making such a law? So this
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday slammed the Trinamool Congress and accused the state government of turning Hindus into "second-class citizens" in the state during the TMC regime.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed her condolences to the bereaved families of the 12 citizens of the state who lost their lives owing to thunderstorms and lightning in Purba Burdwan, Paschim Medinipur and Purulia on Monday night.
"Today, BJP's migrant leader- Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath came to Birbhum and called the place 'Birbhumi'. He does not even know the name of the area. Amit Shah came to Balurghat and called it 'Belurghat'. Why should we not say that they are against Bengal?" Banerjee said at
During Phase 2 of polling for the Lok Sabha in the state on Friday, the CBI and the NSG bomb squads carried out raids in Sandeshkhali and the North 24 Parganas district, recovering a huge cache of arms and ammunition from the house of Abu Taleb, a relative of local TMC leader Hafzul Khan,
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted searches at two premises in Sandeshkhali, in connection with the case related to violence against Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials, and recovered a large number of arms and ammunition including foreign-made postal and revolvers, in
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday recovered a large cache of arms and ammunition including foreign-made pistols and revolvers during searches in Sandeshkhali.
In a rerun of the attack on a raiding team of the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) at Sandeshkhali in the North 24 Parganas district, some officers of the elite National Investigation Agency (NIA) was allegedly heckled in Purba Medinipur district on Saturday while carrying out a probe in c