A SIM box racket was busted with the arrest of one person in connection with over Rs 3 crore cyber fraud case in Kolkata, the police said on Tuesday. The arrest was made for duping a Kolkata couple of over Rs 3 crore by threatening them with digital arrest.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday sent a letter to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, questioning the authority of special roll observers (SROs) and micro-observers.
A student of Scottish Church College in north Kolkata has died under unusual circumstances, and her autopsy report is awaited to confirm the cause of death, said the police on Saturday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that only Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) can bring an end to the "politics of violence" in West Bengal, as it did in other eastern Indian states in the recent past.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday called up the Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, and enquired about the attack on the latter's convoy at Chandrakona in West Midnapore district.
The four additional roll observers appointed by the Election Commission of India (ECI) to review the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal have been tasked to focus on two specific assignments.
Although ED officials are tight-lipped about the nature of the proof the agency now possesses, insiders clarified that it does not include footage from CCTV cameras installed at Jain's Loudon Street residence in central Kolkata and the I-PAC office in Salt Lake.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, alleging that the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state is being carried out with the sole objective of deleting and excluding names of existing voters, rather than correcting errors or including new voters.
Kolkata Police personnel on Saturday afternoon reached the residence of Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) co-founder Pratik Jain to identity the Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials and the accompanying Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) team present during Thursday's raids by the central agency.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has clarified that an alternative to the specified "land or house allotment certificates" will not be treated as valid identity documents at the hearing sessions on claims and objections regarding the draft voters' list in West Bengal.
With the draft voters' list being published on Tuesday, marking the end of the first stage of the three-stage Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has decided to focus on strict monitoring of the session on hearing and objections that will start from next week.
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar 'failed' to answer five crucial questions raised by the Trinamool Congress on the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) by the Election Commission in West Bengal, claimed members of a 10-member Trinamool delegation that visited the ECI headquarters in Delhi to highlight their observations on the revision exercise in the state.
Another Booth Level Officer (BLO) died in West Bengal on Saturday, allegedly due to Special Intensive Revision (SIR) related work pressure, said the police on Saturday.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) is reviewing complaints received from the Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, against three District Magistrates, who are also the District Election Officers (DEOs), claiming that they were not following the poll panel's protocols for Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state.
The total seizure in the operations by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials at multiple locations in West Bengal and Jharkhand in the coal smuggling case has been estimated at around Rs 10 crore.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials conducting raids and search operations at different places in West Bengal and Jharkhand since Friday morning have recovered huge amounts of cash and gold from some of these locations.
Following a joint operation along with the cops of West Bengal Police, the sleuths of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested an M.B.B.S. student of Al-Falah University in Faridabad from Dalkhola in North Dinajpur district in West Bengal in connection with the car explosion near Red Fort Metro Station in Delhi earlier this week,
In the aftermath of the car bomb blast in Delhi, Kolkata Police has began special surveillance in the city. The police are trying to identify citizens of Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, who have not returned to their home countries even after the expiry of their visas.
The Election Commission of India has launched a crackdown against booth-level officers (BLOs) over the alleged gross irregularities and violations of prescribed norms related to enumeration forms for the Special Intensive Revision in West Bengal.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has warned that booth-level officers (BLOs) in West Bengal skipping door-to-door visits while distributing enumeration forms for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state will face strong disciplinary action.
One patient admitted to a private nursing home at Siliguri in Darjeeling district of West Bengal was killed late on Thursday after a fire broke out at the nursing home after midnight.
Mystery has surfaced in a village near Bolpur in Birbhum district of West Bengal following the recovery of a live World War II-era bomb there.
The process of defining the roles of different security and intelligence agencies, both Central and state, for the 2026 West Bengal Assembly polls will be completed by the year-end.
Reacting to the gang-rape incident of a medical student in West Bengal's Durgapur, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said that girls should not be allowed to go out at night.
The central leadership of the BJP, on Friday, directed its state-level leaders in West Bengal to refrain from making any special intensive revision (SIR)-related predictions for West Bengal which might give advantage to Trinamool Congress and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
