A 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped and killed by some of her relatives on Friday night at their home in Gangnapur in Nadia where she had gone to stay some days earlier to visit a rural fair. Poli...

An altercation between a Trinamul Congress councillor’s brother with a youth, who is close to the husband of an Independent councillor from an adjoining ward in central Calcutta, snowballed into...

The CBI team investigating the alleged gang-rape of a minor girl, who died later, in Nadia’s Hanskhali, made its first arrest on Saturday afternoon.  It picked up a close aide of prime acc...

The CBI on Wednesday arrested Satyaban Pramanik, a Group-D employee of a high school in Purulia’s Jhalda, after marathon interrogations since Tuesday in connection with the March 13 murder of Co...

Two persons have been arrested from Jamtara district of Jharkhand on Saturday for their alleged involvement in a fraud committed by calling a victim in Kolkata. The arrested duo allegedly called the ...

A young woman has alleged that she was raped by a faculty member of a private institute in Salt Lake where she had enrolled to prepare for civil services exams. A team from the Bidhannagar police com...

If an adult joke was a taboo for comedians in the past, the red flags of the present are politics and religion. Cyrus Broacha, comedian, anchor, podcaster and columnist, and fellow comedian and autho...

Three brothers were arrested from Muzaffarpur in Bihar late on Wednesday night for allegedly opening fire on a father and son in Tiljala in southeast Kolkata on Saturday morning. The early morning sh...

A former director (technical) of Odisha’s information and public relations department was arrested on Monday for his alleged involvement in the abduction and murder of a cameraman. So far polic...

Over 800 people were arrested for “disorderly conduct” across parts of Kolkata, Salt Lake and New Town between Friday and Saturday when the city celebrated Holi, according to police record...