Several videos purportedly showing a professor getting married to a college student inside the classroom in West Bengal have gone viral, complete with wedding rituals like 'haldi' and the exchange of garlands.
A probe into actor Saif Ali Khan's stabbing has led Mumbai Police to question a woman in West Bengal for allegedly providing a SIM card to the Bangladeshi national who entered the country illegally and has been arrested for the attack.
Trinamool Congress leader Kunal Ghosh has attacked the Congress and its senior figure, Rahul Gandhi, for mentioning a date of death in his tribute Thursday for Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
The Mamata Banerjee government has challenged the trial court's life imprisonment order against the convict in RG Kar rape-murder case, demanding that he be given the death penalty.
The Kolkata court, which sentenced RG Kar rape-murder case convict Sanjoy Roy to life imprisonment, has made strong remarks on the response of the hospital authority and police after a 34-year-old doctor was found raped and murdered in a seminar room
Kolkata Police would have ensured death penalty for the convict in RG Kar rape and murder case, but the probe was taken away and handed over to the CBI, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said today
RG Kar Hospital Rape-Murder Convict Sanjay Roy Gets Life Sentence
Sanjay Roy, who has been convicted in the rape-murder case of a 34-year-old doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, reiterated in court this afternoon that he was innocent and had been framed in the chilling case
Sanjay Roy, the prime accused in the gruesome rape and murder case of a trainee doctor at the state-run RG Kar hospital, has been found guilty by a local court in Kolkata.
In an interview with NDTV, spiritual orator and motivational speaker Jaya Kishori urged youth to attend Maha Kumbh for a positive and enriching experience.
Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's comment about RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's statement - that consecration of Ayodhya's Ram Temple last year was "the true independence of Bharat" - drew an immediate response from the government.
A TMC councillor was shot by two unidentified men in West Bengal's Malda district on Thursday morning, police said.
Mamata Banerjee has claimed that the Border Security Force (BSF) is "letting infiltrators enter West Bengal" from Bangladesh.
A Bangladesh court has again rejected the Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das' bail petition in a sedition case.
West Bengal's Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari was in Sandeshkhali today, a day after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee paid the obscure riverine island a visit
The Forest Department in West Bengal has finally tranquilised a tigress that was on the move across three states for 21 days.
Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had only a 'happy new year' response to questions about the increasingly acrimonious feud between allies Aam Aadmi Party and Congress.
The parents of the 31-year-old doctor, who was raped and murdered on duty at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, have approached Calcutta High Court, flagging concerns in the CBI's investigation and seeking the court's intervention
Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy has defended his 70-hour workweek comment, again.
A woman in her 30s in Kolkata rejected the advances of her brother-in-law. Refusing to accept the rejection, he first strangled her, then beheaded her, cut her body into three pieces, and then dumped the parts in a garbage vat.
A remark by Kolkata mayor and senior Trinamool Congress leader Firhad Hakim, in which he said Muslims could become a "bigger majority than the majority", has sparked a massive row. West Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar has slammed the remarks
The Centre must give protection to minorities in violence-hit Bangladesh, and bring back "those willing to return", urged Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday.
Amid growing tension between New Delhi and Dhaka, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today asked the media and political leaders to keep calm and ensure that provocative remarks don't impact the peace in the border state.
A physical education teacher has been suspended from Kolkata's Scottish Church College after a second-year student accused him of sexually harassing her by sending explicit text messages.
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