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RG Kar trainee doctor was raped by one person, CBI tells Calcutta HC

Published on Mar 28, 2025 07:47 PM IST

Sanjoy Roy, a former Kolkata police civic volunteer was sentenced to imprisonment for rest of life in January by the Sealdah trial court for the rape and murder of the doctor

Members of Joint Platforms of Doctors and Abhaya Mancha shout slogans during the protest rally from College Street demanding justice for the RG Kar victim on her birthday in Kolkataon February 9 (HT FILE PHOTO)

ByHT Correspondent

Protesters disrupt Mamata Banerjee’s University of Oxford speech

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee referred to protesters as “Left, ultra-Left friends and communal forces” and said she did not mind if they asked her questions

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee at the University of Oxford. (PTI)

Published on Mar 28, 2025 08:53 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Calcutta HC orders Jadavpur Univ not to invite politicians to events on campus

The high court said it had its doubts if a private security agency could provide sufficient security to the students, teachers and non-teaching staff

Updated on Mar 27, 2025 08:39 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

2 crude bombs hurled, shots fired near ex-MP Arjun Singh’s house in Bengal

Barrackpore Police Commissioner Ajay Thakur said the situation was under control and those involved in the incident will not be spared

West Bengal BJP leader Arjun Singh has alleged that around 50-60 people attacked his house in North 24 Parganas district (Getty Images)

Published on Mar 27, 2025 05:43 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Bengal resort caretaker caught in woman’s house by her family; dies by suicide: Police

The residents also threw stones at police personnel who tried to retrieve his body for an autopsy, leading to injuries to four policemen including DCP Abhishek Gupta

The 23-year-old man, who worked as a caretaker at a resort, had an affair with the 28-year-old woman who lived in the same locality. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Published on Mar 27, 2025 04:16 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

5 CISF personnel, 3 others held for allegedly looting house in guise of IT raid

The arrested CISF personnel include an inspector, a head constable, and three constables, including a lady constable

Police said that a woman lodged a complaint that her house was looted on March 18. (Representational image)

Published on Mar 26, 2025 07:22 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Mamata Banerjee urges British Airways to resume direct London-Kolkata flights

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee made the request while urging the British industries to help in green technologies, smart infrastructure, and clean energy sectors

Updated on Mar 26, 2025 11:13 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

West Bengal cop sparks row after BJP spots him wearing TMC scarf at Iftar party

BJP state general secretary Jagannath Chatterjee alleged that the incident reflects “an ecosystem” created by the ruling TMC.

In this image, we can see the West Bengal police officer wearing a TMC scarf at an Iftar party.

Published on Mar 25, 2025 04:57 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

No eviction for Deocha Pachami coal mine: Bengal govt assures tribals

Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced at the Bengal Global Business Summit on February 6 that initial work at the country’s biggest coal mine would start immediately

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee. (File Photo)

Published on Mar 23, 2025 06:33 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Heathrow airport fire delayed Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee’s UK visit by a day

A fire at the Europe’s busiest airport stranded tens of thousands of passengers, causing travel turmoil worldwide

Updated on Mar 22, 2025 09:42 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Second-year PG student abused for four hours in Kolkata’s Jadavpur University

At least 12 students are still in jail after they were arrested and charged with abetment to suicide in the chargesheet filed by the Kolkata Police in October 2023

Published on Mar 21, 2025 01:16 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

District judge to oversee Gajan festival, ensure SC entry to Nadia temple: HC

Justice Tirthankar Ghosh pulled up the Nadia police at the previous hearing on Monday, asking if people now have to assert their right to participate in a festival

Justice Tirthankar Ghosh said the Nadia police must ensure that members of the SC community take part in the Gajan festival without any problem (FILE PHOTO)

Updated on Mar 21, 2025 07:38 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

₹3.14 cr cyber fraud: Police teams leave for Assam, W Bengal

The victim had received the phone call on February 25 from an unidentified number, and was put under arrest by the frauds by accusing him of being linked to money laundering

The elderly man visited the bank around seven times in 16 days and transferred the entire amount to five bank accounts operational in Assam and West Bengal. (Representational image)

Published on Mar 22, 2025 06:08 AM IST

ByArun Singh

New Visva Bharati vice chancellor opens campus to tourists after 5 years

Prabir Kumar Ghosh who took charge earlier this week said he had given permission to let tourists visit all parts of the campus

Currently, tourists can visit only the Visva Bharati museum by paying a fee. (Photo: Visva Bharati website)

Updated on Mar 21, 2025 10:25 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Senior official at MNC IT consulting firm dies by suicide at work: Bengal Police

Police said the deceased, who led a team of software engineers, logged into his sixth-floor office on Wednesday morning.

Around 3pm, security guards heard a loud thud outside the building and upon reaching there, found him lying face down in a pool of blood. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Mar 20, 2025 10:20 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Ahead of UK visit, Mamata Banerjee sets up GoM, task force to run Bengal govt

Abhishek Banerjee, TMC national general secretary and state unit president Subrata Bakshi and other senior leaders will manage the TMC’s affairs

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee addresses a press conference in Kolkata on Thursday (ANI)

Published on Mar 20, 2025 09:04 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

West Bengal Assembly passes Bill to allow women work at bars

The ban was imposed by the British through the Bengal Excise Act 1909 when Kolkata (then Calcutta) was the capital of India

Wednesday’s Bill said the Bengal Excise Act, 1909 was being amended “to remove the prohibition on employment of women in ON category liquor shops as such provision is discriminatory.” (Getty Images/ Image for representation only)

Updated on Mar 20, 2025 08:21 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Family of trainee doctor raped and killed at RG Kar Hospital gets her death certificate

The move follows complaints by the family of the doctor who was killed in August last year that they had not been given their daughter’s death certificate

Members of Joint Platforms of Doctors and Abhaya Mancha stage a silent protest rally from College street demand justice for the RG Kar victim on her birthday in Kolkata, on February 9 (Hindustan Times)

Published on Mar 19, 2025 10:56 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Probir Kumar Ghosh appointed new vice-chancellor of Visva-Bharati in WB

Ghosh is the former director and VC of Indian Council of Agricultural Research -National Institute of Biotic Stress Management at Raipur in Chhattisgarh

Ghosh was appointed as the VC for a term of five years. (HT photo sourced)

Published on Mar 19, 2025 10:58 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Bengal records over 50% rise in rhino population in 10 years: Officials

In India, one-horned rhinos are found in the wild in three states - Assam, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. While Assam has the largest population of rhinos, Bengal comes second

A rhino census was held in West Bengal’s Jaldapara and Gorumara National Parks in the first week of March. (Representational image)

Published on Mar 19, 2025 05:18 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Bengal: Protests erupt after JU student arrested over March 1 campus clash

Police had earlier arrested two persons in the same case and both of them were granted bail by the court

A few hundred students held a rally from Jadavpur University to Jadavpur police station on Tuesday. (File Photo)

Updated on Mar 18, 2025 09:29 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Bengal recruitment case: Partha Chatterjee’s son-in-law records statement

Former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee’s son-in-law, Kalyanmoy Bhattacharya,who was an accused in the case, had become an approver last week

Former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee. (PTI File Photo)

Published on Mar 18, 2025 08:57 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

SC allows parents of RG Kar case victim to move HC for probe

The parents sought a further probe to ascertain the alleged role of some other persons, including the former principal of the RG Kar hospital, Sandip Ghosh.

The matter of NTF’s recommendations was listed before a bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna and justices Sanjay Kumar and Joymala Bagchi, which ordered that the matter be listed in the “ week commencing May 13.” (HT)

Published on Mar 18, 2025 09:28 AM IST

ByUtkarsh Anand, New delhi

CBI questions CAPF personnel who allegedly used fake certificates to get jobs

The recruits under scanner allegedly used forged documents showing them as West Bengal residents because cut-off marks are lower by around 25% in West Bengal since it is a border state

A CBI probe into the case was ordered by the Calcutta high court in August 2023. (Representational image)

Published on Mar 17, 2025 06:16 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

School children suffer in West Bengal as Centre-state govt tussle over funds

Under the largest central government scheme for universal school education, the Centre’s share is 60% and the state contributes the remaining 40%.

Students of Bhogpur Maktab Primary School at Kolaghat in East Midnapore district sit for their midday meal. (Photo by Ananda Handa)

Updated on Mar 17, 2025 04:53 PM IST

ByJoydeep Thakur

Kin of murdered Nandigram villagers indifferent to HC's order to reopen cases

The Calcutta high court directed the West Bengal government on February 10 to reopen ten murder cases registered between 2007 and 2009 in the Nandigram area

The murders were reported at Nandigram and Khejuri police stations during a violent movement. (HT file photo)

Published on Mar 17, 2025 01:36 PM IST

ByTanmay Chatterjee

TMC plans a blueprint to root out ‘ghost voters’, BJP calls it ‘sinister’

TMC outlined a plan to identify fake voters ahead of the 2026 elections. It includes appointing agents and forming committees at various levels

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in collusion with the Election Commission of India (ECI), has hatched a conspiracy to disenfranchise Bengal’s electorate, TMC National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee said. (ANI)

Published on Mar 16, 2025 01:12 PM IST

ByJoydeep Thakur

Man throws 4-year-old daughter into river over marital strife in Bengal’s Nadia

Police said the four-year-old girl’s body was recovered from the Jalangi river in West Bengal’s Nadia, and the accused father was arrested

Police said the accused has confessed to the crime. (Representational image)

Updated on Mar 15, 2025 07:20 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Internet suspended in Bengal’s Birbhum after communal clashes on Holi day

The Birbhum police in West Bengal said that they have arrested 21 people and the situation is now under control

Internet and VoIP have been suspended in Saithia town and five other village panchayats including Hatora, Mathpalsa, Harisara, Dariyapur and Fulur from March 14 to 8 am of March 17. (Representational image)

Published on Mar 15, 2025 06:27 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

SUV rams into 2 e-rickshaws in WB’s Nadia district, 7 dead and 3 injured

The SUV driver allegedly lost control of the SUV and crashed into the two e-rickshaws coming from the opposite direction, before toppling onto its side

The driver and passengers in the Scorpio were allegedly intoxicated at the time of the accident, which occurred around 11 am (HT Photo/ For representational purpose)

Published on Mar 14, 2025 06:42 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

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Sanjoy Roy, a former Kolkata police civic volunteer was sentenced to imprisonment for rest of life in January by the Sealdah trial court for the rape and murder of the doctor

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee referred to protesters as “Left, ultra-Left friends and communal forces” and said she did not mind if they asked her questions

The high court said it had its doubts if a private security agency could provide sufficient security to the students, teachers and non-teaching staff

Barrackpore Police Commissioner Ajay Thakur said the situation was under control and those involved in the incident will not be spared

The residents also threw stones at police personnel who tried to retrieve his body for an autopsy, leading to injuries to four policemen including DCP Abhishek Gupta

The arrested CISF personnel include an inspector, a head constable, and three constables, including a lady constable

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee made the request while urging the British industries to help in green technologies, smart infrastructure, and clean energy sectors

BJP state general secretary Jagannath Chatterjee alleged that the incident reflects “an ecosystem” created by the ruling TMC.

Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced at the Bengal Global Business Summit on February 6 that initial work at the country’s biggest coal mine would start immediately

A fire at the Europe’s busiest airport stranded tens of thousands of passengers, causing travel turmoil worldwide

At least 12 students are still in jail after they were arrested and charged with abetment to suicide in the chargesheet filed by the Kolkata Police in October 2023

Justice Tirthankar Ghosh pulled up the Nadia police at the previous hearing on Monday, asking if people now have to assert their right to participate in a festival

The victim had received the phone call on February 25 from an unidentified number, and was put under arrest by the frauds by accusing him of being linked to money laundering

Prabir Kumar Ghosh who took charge earlier this week said he had given permission to let tourists visit all parts of the campus

Police said the deceased, who led a team of software engineers, logged into his sixth-floor office on Wednesday morning.

Abhishek Banerjee, TMC national general secretary and state unit president Subrata Bakshi and other senior leaders will manage the TMC’s affairs

The ban was imposed by the British through the Bengal Excise Act 1909 when Kolkata (then Calcutta) was the capital of India

The move follows complaints by the family of the doctor who was killed in August last year that they had not been given their daughter’s death certificate

Ghosh is the former director and VC of Indian Council of Agricultural Research -National Institute of Biotic Stress Management at Raipur in Chhattisgarh

In India, one-horned rhinos are found in the wild in three states - Assam, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. While Assam has the largest population of rhinos, Bengal comes second

Police had earlier arrested two persons in the same case and both of them were granted bail by the court

Former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee’s son-in-law, Kalyanmoy Bhattacharya,who was an accused in the case, had become an approver last week

The parents sought a further probe to ascertain the alleged role of some other persons, including the former principal of the RG Kar hospital, Sandip Ghosh.

The recruits under scanner allegedly used forged documents showing them as West Bengal residents because cut-off marks are lower by around 25% in West Bengal since it is a border state

Under the largest central government scheme for universal school education, the Centre’s share is 60% and the state contributes the remaining 40%.

The Calcutta high court directed the West Bengal government on February 10 to reopen ten murder cases registered between 2007 and 2009 in the Nandigram area

TMC outlined a plan to identify fake voters ahead of the 2026 elections. It includes appointing agents and forming committees at various levels

Police said the four-year-old girl’s body was recovered from the Jalangi river in West Bengal’s Nadia, and the accused father was arrested

The Birbhum police in West Bengal said that they have arrested 21 people and the situation is now under control

The SUV driver allegedly lost control of the SUV and crashed into the two e-rickshaws coming from the opposite direction, before toppling onto its side

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