West Bengal

LPG price cut by Rs 10 per cylinder

11:41 pm March 31, 2021

New Delhi: After raising cooking gas prices by Rs 125 per cylinder last month, state-owned oil firms on Wednesday announced a Rs 10 per cylinder cut in LPG rates on softening international oil prices. A 14.2-kg LPG cylinder — both for subsidised and market price users — will cost Rs 809 from April 1 as […]

UP: Man arrested for supplying FICN

8:32 pm March 25, 2021

Lucknow: The Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh has arrested a man from Noida for allegedly supplying high-quality Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN), officials said here on Thursday. Sadar Ali, a resident of West Bengal, was arrested on Wednesday from Mahamaya Flyover in Noida, an official statement from the ATS said, adding that he […]

Campaign ends for first phase of poll in WB

7:56 pm March 25, 2021

Kolkata: Curtains came down at 5 pm Thursday on the high decibel campaign in 30 assembly seats in West Bengal where polls are scheduled in the first phase on March 27. The 30 seats are spread across tribal-dominated Purulia, Bankura, Jhargram, Purba Medinipur (Part 1) and Paschim Medinipur (Part 1) districts which were once considered […]

ISF leader’s house set on fire in Bhangor after Abbas Siddiqui’s rally, 2 held

7:47 pm March 22, 2021

Baruipur (WB): The house of an ISF leader was torched in West Bengal South 24 Parganas district, police said on Monday. The incident happened at Shapa in the Bhangor police station area but no one was injured, they said. The house of Ajit Molla was set on fire allegedly by Trinamool Congress “goons” as he […]

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Arrested in UP after Tablighi Jamaat event, 11 Bangladeshi members allowed to go home

7:15 pm March 21, 2021

Bhadohi: Eleven Bangladeshi Tablighi Jamaat members, who were arrested from here for flouting visa norms and put in a government travel blacklist, have left the country after a Lucknow court allowed them go on completing their punishment, police said Sunday. Superintendent of Police Ram Badan Singh said they left Saturday on a bus from Bhadohi with a […]